Linguistics Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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The Acquisition of Quiche (Mayan)
(University of Chicago Press, 1979-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
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
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The role of phonological alternation in speech production: evidence from Mandarin tone sandhi
(Acousical Society of America, 2012)We investigate the role of phonological alternation during speech production in Mandarin using implicit priming, a paradigm in which participants respond faster to words in sets that are phonologically homogeneous than in ... -
Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-03-07)This study examines the roles of proficiency and working memory (WM) capacity in second-/foreign-language (L2) learners’ processing of agreement morphology. It investigates the processing of grammatical and ungrammatical ... -
Free Relative Clauses in Two Mixtec Languages
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-01)Two previously unstudied Mixtec languages—Nieves Mixtec and Melchor Ocampo Mixtec—are investigated, with special emphasis on free relative clauses and two related wh-constructions: interrogative wh-clauses and headed ... -
A Tale of Two Mam Children: Contact-Induced Language Change in Mayan Child Language
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-10)Mayan languages have been in contact with Spanish for nearly 500 years and yet maintain much of their structural integrity. The arrival of bilingual schools and television has now altered the circumstance of language use ... -
The morpho-syntax of silent wh-expressions in Wolof
(Springer Netherlands, 2011-11-01)This paper analyzes the morphology and syntax of wh-expressions and agreeing complementizers in Wolof, an Atlantic language. I argue that Wolof possesses a set of null wh-expressions, in addition to a set of overt ones. ... -
Categorization of Sounds
(The American Psychological Association, 2006-06-01)The authors conducted 4 experiments to test the decision-bound, prototype, and distribution theories for the categorization of sounds. They used as stimuli sounds varying in either resonance frequency or duration. They ... -
Contributions of semantic and facial information to perception of non-sibilant fricatives
(American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2003-12-01)Most studies have been unable to identify reliable acoustic cues for the recognition of the English nonsibilant fricatives /f, v, θ, ð/. The present study was designed to test the extent to which the perception of these ... -
What information is necessary for speech categorization? Harnessing variability in the speech signal by integrating cues computed relative to expectations
(The American Psychological Association, 2011-04-01)Most theories of categorization emphasize how continuous perceptual information is mapped to categories. However, equally important are the informational assumptions of a model, the type of information subserving this ... -
The phonological status of Dutch epenthetic schwa
(Cambridge University Press, 2002-08-06)In this paper, we use articulatory measures to determine whether Dutch schwa epenthesis is an abstract phonological process or a concrete phonetic process depending on articulatory timing. We examine tongue position during ...