Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences articles from March 2002

Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences archives from March 2002

Why quantitative (1)?
March 1, 2002... 1. Introduction It is generally the case that special volumes include studies on a narrowly defined topic of linguistic investigation from a single theoretical standpoint. A glance at the table of contents of the present issue, on the...

On the diphthong/hiatus contrast in Spanish: some experimental results *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract Some Spanish dialects have a lexical contrast between sequences in hiatus and diphthongs. Thus, whereas, for instance, dueto `duet' admits a trisyllabic pronunciation with the sequence ue realized in hiatus [du.e.to], the word...

The time-course of inflexional morphological priming *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract In Spanish. the contrast between the suffixes -a and -o in pairs of words such as loc-a/loc-o 'mad woman'/'madman' has a morphological value because it allows the gender selection of the stem loc. However, in pairs such as...

Leismo in contemporary Spanish American educated speech *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract The present study, based on a corpus of some 1,265,000 words in the form of contemporary educated speech samples recorded in situ in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Lima, Mexico City, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Juan...

Le: from pronoun to intensifier *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract This paper shows a synchronic use of le in Mexican Spanish that is different from its object pronoun function. Intensifier le is a verbal affix that emphasizes the "doing" of the action indicated by the verbal base, where an...

Spanish evidence for pitch-accent structure *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract This paper considers the ability of the standard view of the pitch accent and two alternative views to account for the tonal-alignment data of two bitonal rising pitch accents in Spanish (one of which is used in cases of broad...

Is there a Spanish imperative intonation revisited: local considerations *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract This paper reports the results of an experiment designed to reexamine the existence of an imperative intonation in Spanish by investigating acoustic cues at the local pitch-accent level. Navarro Tomas (1974 [1944]) claims that...

A fresh look at quantity sensitivity in Spanish *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract The present article aims to examine, with the help of a made-up-word test, the psycholinguistic reality behind the generalizations assumed to govern the stress system of Spanish nonverbs, paying special attention to quantity...

Spanish diminutive formation without rules or constraints (1).
March 1, 2002... Abstract Spanish diminutive formation is analyzed in terms of analogy, more precisely within the computationally explicit framework of analogical modeling of language (AML; Skousen 1989, 1992). Accordingly, all known diminutives are...

Word reconstruction and consonant features in English and Spanish (1).
March 1, 2002... Abstract The word-reconstruction task (van Ooijen 1996) was used to investigate the contribution of the phonological root node feature [sonorant] to word identification. Experiment I tested its influence in English. In identifying target...

Semantic transparency as a predictor of copula choice in second-language acquisition *.
March 1, 2002... Abstract Despite the potential benefits of interdisciplinary research (Giacalone Ramat 1995; Preston 1989), there are relatively few recent examples of studies that cross boundaries in an effort to strengthen the individual investigation....