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Linguistics: Recent submissions
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This study examines the acquisition of syntactic island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints ... -
Studies in Ibibio Grammar
(University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics, 2014)This volume contains a collection of research about Ibibio, a Niger-Congo, Lower Cross language spoken in southeastern Nigeria. While there is previous linguistic work on Ibibio, this volume, to our knowledge, is the largest ... -
A semantic study of 'cut' and 'break' verbs in Sorani Kurdish
(University of Kansas, 2012-12-31)Guerssel et al. (1985) proposed Lexical Conceptual Structures (LCSs) which incorporate a universal set of semantic components to predict the syntactic behavior of cut and break verbs. They state that a CAUSE component ... -
Clausal nominalization in Wolof
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)Wolof uses various strategies to express clausal nominalization i.e. genitive nominalization (GN), relative clause nominalization (RC nominalization) and headless relative clause nominalization. This dissertation provides ... -
The Pragmatics of Proverb Performance in Limonese Creole
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The word order of subordinate clauses
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Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis
(Linguistic Society of America, 1989-06-01)In recent work Noun Incorporation has been argued to result from head movement, in which the head of an object noun phrase moves into the verb, creating a complex verb. This paper argues instead that NI derives from word ... -
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Mayan Telegraphese: Intonational Determinants of Inflectional Development in Quiché Mayan
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The Acquisition of Quiche (Mayan)
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Reply to Bruno H. Repp
(Acoustical Society of America, 1985-01-01)The reader will readily note that much of Repp’s criticism [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 7 8, 1114–1116 (1985)] reflects his contention that there has been a procedural transgression on the part of the authors and the Society that ... -
Knowledge and Obedience: The Developmental Status of the Binding Theory
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The acquisition of ergative languages
(De Gruyter Open, 1990-01-05)Ergative languages have challenged the ingenuity of linguists for more than a century. This article explores learnability problems associated with the acquisition of ergative languages. Traditionally, an ergative ... -
Differential contribution of prosodic cues in the native and non-native segmentation of French speech
(De Gruyter Open, 2012-11-01)This study investigates the use of prosodic information in the segmentation of French speech by mid-level and high-level English second/foreign language (L2) learners of French and native French listeners. The results of ... -
Acoustic analyses and perceptual data on anticipatory labial coarticulation in adults and children
(Acoustical Society of America, 1987-03-05)The present study investigated anticipatory labial coarticulation in the speech of adults and children. CV syllables, composed of [s], [t], and [d] before [i] and [u], were produced by four adult speakers and eight child ... -
Agreement without A positions: Another look at Algonquian
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The genetic matrix of Mayan applicative acquisition
(De Gruyter Open, 2007-07-01)This article uses data on Mayan applicative constructions to demonstrate the use of a comparative method for language acquisition research. Mayan languages express indirect objects through an applicative suffix on verbs, ... -
Language Loss in the Chilcotin
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How Why is Different: Wh- In-situ in Krachi
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Externalization and Emergence: On the Status of Parameters in the Minimalist Program
(Biolinguistics, 2009-01-01)