Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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Distinctiveness, Coercion and Sonority: A Unified Theory of Weight
1st Edition
By Bruce Moren
May 13, 2016
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....
Minimal Indirect Reference: A Theory of the Syntax-Phonology Interface
1st Edition
By Amanda Seidl
May 13, 2016
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....
Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of Contrastive Palatalization
1st Edition
By Alexei Kochetov
May 13, 2016
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 ...
The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution: A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis
1st Edition
By Jie Zhang
May 13, 2016
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 ...
Vowel/Glide Alternation in a Theory of Constraint Interaction
1st Edition
By Samuel Rosenthall, Laurence Horn
May 13, 2016
First Published in 1997. The alternation between high vowels and glides is shown here to follow from the interaction of phonological constraints as defined by Prince and Smolensky's (1993) Optimality Theory. The alternation stems from simultaneously comparing moraic and nonmoraic parses of high ...
Layers in the Determiner Phrase
1st Edition
By Rob Zamparelli
May 04, 2016
The main topic of this work is the interaction between syntactic structure and meanin within the noun phrase, with data drwn primarily from English and Italian....
The Presupposition and Discourse Functions of the Japanese Particle Mo
1st Edition
By Sachiko Shudo
May 04, 2016
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 ...
A Presuppositional Analysis of Specific Indefinites: Common Grounds as Structured Information States
1st Edition
By Jae-Il Yeom
February 29, 2016
First published in 1998. In this book the author presents the view that although many linguists have been interested in specific indefinites, their theories are not quite satisfactory in that they have only tried to explore some aspects of specific indefinites. This paper assumes a standard notion ...
Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation
1st Edition
By John Fry
February 29, 2016
This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome Japanese (CHJ) corpus, a collection of transcripts and digitized speech data for 120 telephone conversations between native speakers of...
Phonetic and Phonological Aspects of Geminate Timing
1st Edition
By William Ham
February 29, 2016
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....
Prosody and Focus in European Portuguese: Phonological Phrasing and Intonation
1st Edition
By Sonia Frota
February 29, 2016
This work is an investigation of the relation between prosodic structure, intonational structure and (some instances of) focus realisation in European Portuguese (EP). The prosodic account has been developed within the relation-based framework of prosodic hierarchy theory and the ...
The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Ejectives
1st Edition
By Paul D. Fallon
February 29, 2016
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....