Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles

Recent articles from Southwest Journal of Linguistics

Linguistics and the scientific method.(2008 Presidential Address)
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. In the present paper, I contrast empirical and non-empirical approaches to linguistics by examining the extent to which they practice the scientific method. I provide examples of linguistic analyses that follow and depart from the scientific method and argue that valid explanations...

A look-see at the Spanish verbs of visual perception ver and mirar.
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. This paper presents a sociolinguistic study of the Spanish verbs ver and mirar. An analysis of the verbs' lexical aspect based on the properties of stages and telicity shows that ver can be an activity, accomplishment, achievement, or state, whereas mirar can be an activity or...

Motifs in the formation of antonymous compounds in Chinese.
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT: This study is an attempt to deal with the derivation, interpretation and formation of antonymous compounds, a unique morphological and rhetorical device in the Chinese language. A corpus of antonymous compounds has been designed and developed. It consists of all the antonymous...

Road to Kenny: migration and affricate /c/.
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. Mexicans have migrated to Kennett Square, Pennsylvania to work on the mushroom farms since 1965. The paper draws on two different speaking data samples collected on the farms: one between summer 1995 and December 1996, and the other from summer 2002. A quantitative analysis of these...

L2 acquisition of [[??]], [[??]], and [[??]] in Spanish: impact of experience, linguistic environment, and learner variables.
December 1, 2008... ABSTRACT. This study examines the influence of L2 experience, learner variables, prosody, and orthography on the L2 acquisition of the approximants [[??]], [[??]], and [[??]] in Spanish by 36 English-speaking learners. The results suggest that accuracy in the production of [[??]], [[??]] and...