Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from January 2008

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from January 2008

Competition between syllabic and metrical constraints in two Bunun dialects *.
January 1, 2008... Abstract This article shows how syllabic and metrical constraints interact differently in two dialects of Bunun, despite their similarity in that both dialects exhibit modifications of vowel clusters in response to the ONSET constraint. In...

The acquisition of the multiple senses of with *.
January 1, 2008... Abstract The present article reports on an investigation of one child's acquisition of the multiple senses of the preposition with from 2;0-4;0. Two competing claims regarding children's early representation and subsequent acquisition of...

Distinguishing theories of syntactic expectation cost in sentence comprehension: evidence from Japanese. *.
January 1, 2008... Abstract Previous research in the sentence comprehension literature has established that people expend resources keeping track of partially processed phrase structures during the process of comprehending sentences. An open question in this...

Big words, small phrases: mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon (1).
January 1, 2008... Abstract This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land. Though the phenomenon is incipient and in...

"Vivid narrative use" and the meaning of the present perfect in spoken Australian English (1).
January 1, 2008... Abstract This article examines the use of the present perfect (PP) in Australian English using a corpus of stories told during radio chat-show programs and news reports. We find that the PP is used (i) as a narrative tense in spoken texts...

Susan Edwards: Fluent Aphasia.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Susan Edwards: Fluent Aphasia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-79107-6. Over the last several decades, a large part of aphasia research has focussed on persons with Broca's aphasia and agrammatism,...

Elena Filimonova, editor: Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of the Inclusive-Exclusive Distinction.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Elena Filimonova, editor: Clusivity: Typology and Case Studies of the Inclusive-Exclusive Distinction. Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2005.436 pp. Elena Filimonova teaches in the Slavonic Studies...

Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander, and Esa Pentilla, editors. Dialects Across Borders.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander, and Esa Pentilla, editors. Dialects Across Borders. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005. 291 pp. ISBN 90-272-4787-0. This book bundles a selection of thirteen papers presented...