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This paper examines a range of predicted versus attested error patterns involving coronal fricatives (e.g. [s, z, θ, ð]) as targets and repairs in the early sound systems of monolingual English-acquiring children. Typological results are reported from a cross-sectional study of 234 children with phonological delays (ages 3 years; 0 months to 7; 9). Our analyses revealed different instantiations of...
The aim of this research is to further our knowledge of the syntax of postverbal subjects and focalization in Romance. Particular attention is paid to corrective focus at the right edge of the sentence in subject control structures without restructuring in Spanish. It is shown that the features of this syntactic context provide a testing ground for competing theories on the syntax of postverbal subjects...
In this paper I present a reanalysis of the English demonstrative determiners this and that. I assume a relevance-theoretic (Sperber and Wilson, 1986/95) approach to utterance interpretation in general and to reference resolution in particular, and argue that demonstratives encode procedural rather than conceptual meaning. In some cases this procedural meaning contributes to reference resolution directly...
In this paper, it is argued that adult speakers of all languages have a universal predisposition to use vowel harmony, even when there is no evidence of productive harmony in the native lexicon. Evidence for this harmony may emerge in the lexicon's periphery (e.g. loanwords). We investigate harmony in loanwords in Modern Hebrew, a language not considered to be a vowel harmony language, focusing on...
The present study analyses the semantics of the Spanish subjunctive mood from a Cognitive Grammar perspective. The proposed hypothesis is that the subjunctive mood designates events that are located outside the conceptualiser's dominion in two alternate ways. In accordance with Maldonado (1995), the subjunctive mood is claimed to designate events that are located outside the conceptualiser's epistemic...
The phenomenon of double negation (DN), by which two negative elements negate each other in such a way that a positive interpretation is obtained, has traditionally been considered in terms of its syntactic and semantic grammatical properties. Yet, correlated prosodic and gestural features exist, such as specific pitch contours and gestures which potentially affect listeners in the speech act comprehension...
This paper provides a diachronic explanation for related changes in the tonal melodies of Franconian, Scandinavian, and Serbo-Croatian tone accent systems. It is argued that in each of these systems, some dialect groups have optimized the relation between tone and prominence by replacing cross-linguistically marked low level or rising pitch contours in (nuclear) accent syllables with unmarked high...
This paper reaffirms the conclusion of Horvath and Siloni (2011a) that unaccusatives – with or without the so-called reflexive morphology – involve no Cause ingredient whatsoever. Arguments based on the distribution of the modifier by itself, negation, and the Greek cause preposition apo show that. Beavers and Koontz-Garboden's (in this issue) counterarguments to Horvath and Siloni are either based...
This paper closely examines two types of predicate contrastive topic constructions in Korean, i.e. Ha-construction and R-construction, and argues that they are derived from the same underlying structure via the same process, which involves a phrasal movement including a subject, leaving behind the copy of the moved constituent (cf. Chomsky, 1995), in contrast to the head movement analysis. That is,...
Two perception experiments were conducted with subjects from Kiel, Düsseldorf and Vienna to investigate the role prosody plays (a) in resolving scope of negation ambiguities and (b) in judging the strength of phrasal breaks in German. The prosodic means tested were pause, intonation contour and peak alignment. Results reveal that the relevance of the cues varies depending on the task: for the (semantic)...
Horvath and Siloni (2011) argue against an analysis of anticausativization as reflexivization as presented especially by Koontz-Garboden (2009) for languages in which anticausatives exhibit overt reflexive marking. We show that Horvath and Siloni's evidence, when examined in greater detail, either does not argue against such an analysis, or in some cases even supports it.
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