Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from December 2003

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from December 2003

The psychological unreality of quantity sensitivity in Spanish: experimental evidence.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This study presents experimental results testing the psychological reality of Spanish quantity sensitivity through a NONCE WORD TEST. The syllabic structures being tested include the following: 'CVC.CVC.CV and 'CVC.CV.rV. It has been...

Variacion de estilo en relacion a la variable fonologica /s/ en el espanol de Santiago de Chile.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes the effects of COMMUNICATIVE SITUATIONS on the phenomena of retention, aspiration, and deletion of the phonological variable /s/ in the Spanish spoken in Santiago de Chile. Communicative situation as a stylistic...

Diminutives in Spanish a morpho-phonological account.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper argues, within an optimality-theoretic framework, that Spanish diminutivization is primarily driven by morphological factors. Two underlying allomorphs select their bases according to the morphological class and...

Tense and aspect in English and Spanish past forms.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. This paper offers an account of the structure and the meaning of English and Spanish past forms. This account is based on several assumptions: a) a functional category for grammatical aspect is present in both synthetic and analytic...

Determinacy in Hiligaynon.
December 1, 2003... ABSTRACT. In Hiligaynon (Central Bisayan, Philippines), verbal and nominal forms are derived from base roots, the former typically employing voice/aspect affixes and the latter, prenominal determiners. Excluding the deictics (pronouns and...

Linguistic fieldwork.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Linguistic fieldwork. Ed. by PAUL NEWMAN and MARTHA RATLIFF. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 288. Hardback $69.95. In the introduction to Linguistic fieldwork, Paul Newman and Martha Ratliff state the two main...

Bibliografia basica y selectiva de linguistica romanica.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Bibliografia basica y selectiva de linguistica romanica. By DAN MUNTEANU COLAN and RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ MARIN. Salamanca: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Universidad de Alcala, 2003. Pp. 305. The study of Romance languages from a...

Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts. By FREDRIC W. FIELD. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2002. Pp. 255. Hardback $92.00. In Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts, Fredric W. Field presents in-depth discussions of the...

Learning through language in early childhood.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... Learning through language in early childhood. By CLARE PAINTER. London: Cassell Academic, 1999. Pp. 288. Hardback $82.95. Paper $37.95. In this volume, Clare Painter explores how children develop language through a systemic approach of...

English language teaching in its social context: a reader.(Book Review)
December 1, 2003... English language teaching in its social context: A reader. Ed. by CHRISTOPHER N. CANDLIN and NEIL MERCER. New York: Routledge, 2001. Pp. 352. Hardback $95.00. Paper $29.95. In this book, Candlin and Mercer have compiled recent articles to...