Research Publications (Linguistics)
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Phonetic variability of stops and flaps in spontaneous and careful speech: Extended Table II
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Tucker, Benjamin V., Warner, Natasha
TABLE II: Average (left) and standard deviation (right) for each dependent measure (consonant duration (sec.), intensity drop, proportion with a voiceless portion during the consonant, proportion with a burst, proportion with cessation in F2 and F3), and number of tokens. S: post-stress, U:...
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Prosodic focus marking in clefts and syntactically unmarked equivalents: Prosody–syntax trade-off or additive effects?
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Two experiments quantitatively investigated the interaction of prosody and syntax in marking focus in English. A production study with 28 participants (analyzing 919 utterances) found that the acoustic marking of subject focus vs broad focus, induced through a preceding context question, was...
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2016-04-01
Claims regarding the genetic relationship between the Sáliban languages rest solely on a number of lexical comparisons that only identify resemblances between lexical items. In this study, I reconstruct two distinct verb classes for Proto-Sáliban and the consonants in the animate subject person...
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1976
In their article \"Modality and conversational information\", Groenendijk and Stokhof propose an analysis of modal expressions which contain in their semantic representations one common element—a sentential operator meaning \"is possible\". While their inclusion of conversational information in...
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2008
Golato, A, Maheux-Pelletier, G
Using conversation analysis as methodology, this article provides a link between the local organization of talk and larger societal issues by investigating specific conversational sequences in which French speakers from different speech communities interact. It is argued that in addition to...
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2000
This excellent grammar provides everything (and more!) which one has come to expect of grammars in the Mouton Grammar Library series: maps, a 546-page grammar, 60 pages of transcribed texts, a 164-page Kayardild-English dictionary with illustrations, photographs of language consultants, author...
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2011
The juxtaposition of the terms BENEFACTIVE and MALEFACTIVE in the title of this volume is natural since they are conceptually well paired; at the same time it is thought-provoking, as we are much more accustomed to seeing the term benefactive in grammars than malefactive. In their introductory...
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Review of From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations
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This volume is introduced in the foreword (vii) as the product of a project begun in 2002 at the Fédération de Recherche Typologie et Universaux Linguistiques of the French National Centre for Scientific Research. It consists of three parts: ‘State of the art’ (one chapter), ‘Theoretical and...
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1998
Syntax: Structure, Meaning and Function, henceforth Syntax, is a comprehensive and impressive Statement of a theory of syntax. The authors acknowledge certain components of the theory as being derived from other theories and the work of various individuals, but it is most obviously a development...