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Ups and Downs of Child Language
Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena
Häftad, 2011
405 kr
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The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea …
Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems
Häftad, 2012
942 kr
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Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such …
Syntax-Information Structure Interface
Evidence from Spanish and English
Häftad, 2012
942 kr
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In the last decade, the notions of topic and focus have come to play an increasingly relevant role in theoretical linguistics. Although these notions are often taken for granted, they are still poorly understood. This study offers a detailed analysis of the precise definitions of these and related …
Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech
Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society
Häftad, 2013
821 kr
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This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work …
Telicity and Durativity
A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German
Häftad, 2013
580 kr
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This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the …
Semantics of the Future
Häftad, 2011
942 kr
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This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic …
Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese
Av Ren Zhang
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as …
Vietnamese Tone
A New Analysis
Av Andrea Hoa Pham, Laurence Horn
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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This new book offers research that will affect further study of tone in Vietnamese and other tonal languages.
Manifestations of Genericity
Häftad, 2014
1052 kr
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In this book, Yael Greenberg discusses and clarifies a number of controversial issues and phenomena in the generic literature, including the existence of "episodic genericity," existential presuppositions, and contextual restrictions of generics.
Causes and Consequences of Word Structure
Av Jennifer Hay
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates the role of two factors known to be relevant to speech perception: phonotactics and …
Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals
A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi
Häftad, 2014
1052 kr
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This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in Khoesan languages, and the first study of phonation types associated with pharyngeal …
Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions
Häftad, 2015
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Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there are also cases of neutralization that affect only strong positions, as when stressed syllables must be heavy, …
Typology of Parts of Speech Systems
The Markedness of Adjectives
Av David Beck
Häftad, 2013
942 kr
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This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, …
True to Form
Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
Häftad, 2014
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This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:1) It's raining?2) It's raining.The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the …
Lenition and Contrast
The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes
Häftad, 2014
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This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, …
Existential Faithfullness
A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement and Dissimulation
Av Caro Struijke, Laurence Horn
Häftad, 2014
942 kr
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First Published in 2003. Initially a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Maryland at College Park in August 2000, this book is a revised version with an expanded discussion on dissimilation, as well as looking at existential faithfulness relations in reduplicative TETU and feature …
Minimal Indirect Reference
A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface
Av Amanda Seidl
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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This book investigates the nature of the relationship between phonology and syntax and proposes a theory of Minimal Indirect Reference that solves many classic problems relating to the topic.
Effort Based Approach to Consonant Lenition
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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The first serious typological survey of the lenition process in modern phonological literature.
Vowel Reduction in Optimality Theory
Inbunden, 2001
1575 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of vowel reduction, in which two or more underlying vowel qualities are neutralized in unstressed position.
Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Geminate Timing
Av William Ham
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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Using acoustic studies of Bernese, Hungarian, Levantine Arabic and Madurese, the author argues that differences in geminate timing are ultimately correlated with whether a language is syllable-or mora-timed.
Grammatical Features and the Acquisition of Reference
A Comparative Study of Dutch and Spanish
Av Sergio Baauw
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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This book discusses to what extent errors young children make with their interpretation of definite articles and pronouns are due to their immature pragmatic skills, and to what extent incomplete syntactic development plays a role.
Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority
A Unified Theory of Weight
Av Bruce Moren
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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This volume proposes a unified weight theory that challenges traditionally held beliefs regarding the vowel/consonant dichotomy inherent in moraicity and illuminates many previously intractable issues.
Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives
Inbunden, 2001
3544 kr
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This study is the first book-length examination of ejectives and their phonological patterning, deepening the empirical understanding of ejectives and contributing to both phonological theory and to typologies of sound change.
Existential Faithfullness
A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement and Dissimulation
Av Caro Struijke, Laurence Horn
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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First Published in 2003. Initially a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Maryland at College Park in August 2000, this book is a revised version with an expanded discussion on dissimilation, as well as looking at existential faithfulness relations in reduplicative TETU and feature …
Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns
A Case of Contrastive Palatalization
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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First Published in 2002. Production, Perception and Phontactic Patterns presents the first experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents in general, with a special focus on the nature of positional markedness scales, one of the key concepts in the current …
Typology of Parts of Speech Systems
The Markedness of Adjectives
Av David Beck
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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This book presents rigorous and criterial definitions of the major parts of speech - noun, verb, and adjective - that account both for their syntactic behaviour and for their observed typological variation. Based on an examination of languages from five different groups - Salishan, Cora, Quechua, …
Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution
A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis
Av Jie Zhang
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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First Published in 2002. Part of the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, this is an in-depth investigation of the effects of duration and sonority on contour tone distribution. The term “tone language” usually refers to languages in which the pitch of a syllable serves lexical or …
Compensatory Lengthening
Phonetics, Phonology, Diachrony
Av Darya Kavitskaya, Laurence Horn
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series, and focuses on phonetics, phonology and diachrony of compensatory lengthening. The term compensatory lengthening (CL) refers to a set of phonological phenomena wherein the disappearance of one …
Syntax of Possession in Japanese
Inbunden, 2002
2600 kr
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First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the syntax of possession expressions in Japanese at the sentential level. It starts with a background of possessive syntax and illustrates how Japanese …
Presupposition and Discourse Functions of the Japanese Particle Mo
Inbunden, 2002
2842 kr
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First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the 'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics' series. This study focuses on the Japanese particle mo. The particle is probably best described as roughly equivalent to the English too or also, although the difference between the Japanese particle and …
