Southwest Journal of Linguistics articles from June 2006

Southwest Journal of Linguistics archives from June 2006

Economy against prescriptivism: internal and expernal factors of language change (1).
June 1, 2006... Abstract. This paper provides a short overview of some principles of the Minimalist Program, as originally outlined in Chomsky (1995). Within this framework, sentences are constructed in as economic a way as possible, e.g. movement is...

Tradition and change in language and discourse: three case studies.
June 1, 2006... Abstract. The linguistic gumbo presented in this work is three separate sociolinguistic situations--Francoproven[??]al in Europe, Patron Saints' festivals in Central Mexico, and Kuna in Panama. Although each is distinct, all share certain...

Contrast and markedness in complex onset phonotactics.
June 1, 2006... Abstract. In man, y languages that permit coronal laterals to follow labial and velar stops in complex onsets, sequences of a coronal stop followed by a coronal lateral are prohibited. Standard accounts rule out coronal-lateral clusters as an...

Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... By James Collins and Richard K. Blot. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 238. The present volume attempts to trace the relationship between traditional and modern interpretations of literacy and the impact that the role of...

Sociolinguistica del espanol: desarrollos y perspectivas en el estudio de la lengua espanola en contexto social.(sociolinguistic look at Spanish language)
June 1, 2006... Jose Luis Bias Arroyo. Madrid: Catedra. 2005. Pp.782. La sociolingu[??]stica ha sido una de las ramas m[??] fecundas de las ciencias del lenguaje en los [??]ltimos 30 anos. A mi parecer, el quehacer socioling[??]istico ha generado tanto...

The development of stress-dependent harmony.
June 1, 2006... Abstract. This paper seeks to further establish the connection between phonological vowel harmony and phonetic vowel-to-vowel coarticulation by examining the role of stress in each. A surprising number of languages have vowel harmonies in which...