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(De Gruyter, 2005)One of the most important courses in the linguistics curriculum is an introduction to semantics for advanced undergraduate and/or beginning graduate students. The highly technical nature of this material, the intricacy ... -
The Acoustic and Visual Phonetic Basis of Place of Articulation in Excrescent Nasals
(2007)One common historical development in languages with distinctively nasalized vowels is the excrescence of coda velar nasals in place of nasalized vowels. For example, the dialect of French spoken in the southwestern part ... -
Affix-placement variation in Turkish
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Apparent non-constituent coordination in Japanese
(CSLI Publications, 2008)Coordination in Japanese poses various puzzles which defy the standard notion of syntactic category. On the one hand, one can conjoin structures which one usually would not expect to form any constituent, and on the ... -
Argument and Event Structure in Yukatek Verb Classes
(GLSA, 2001)In Yukatek Maya, event types are lexicalized in verb roots and stems that fall into a number of different form classes on the basis of (a) patterns of aspect-mood marking and (b) priviledges of undergoing valence-changing ... -
Argument structure of Oneida kinship terms
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)Oneida (Iroquoian) kinship terms have both nominal and verbal properties, and the verbal nature of kinship terms explains why both arguments of the relation are morphologically expressed. However, the linking of the ... -
Assessing agreement level between forced alignment models with data from endangered language documentation corpora
(2012)Automatic forced alignment between transcriptions has achieved high levels of agreement for languages with large corpora, but the technique holds great promise for work on all languages. Here, we apply two forced alignment ... -
Automatic Learning of Grammatical Encoding
(CSLI, 2008)Avenue (Probst et al., 2002, Monson et al., 2004, Lavie et al., 2003, Font-Llitjoset al.,2005)1 is a machine translation system that automatically learns translation rules between two languages. In the Avenue scenario, one ... -
The Bantu verbal prefixes and S-Aux-O-V order in Benue-Congo
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The Berkeley Interlinear Text Collector (BITC)
(2015-11-03)The Berkeley Interlinear Text Collector (BITC) is a system for collecting interlinear texts and is especially designed for group collaboration. BITC is installed on a network server, and users access BITC through a web ... -
Beyond the ancestral code: Towards a model for sociolinguistic language documentation
(University of Hawaii Press, 2014)Most language documentation efforts focus on capturing lexico-grammatical information on individual languages. Comparatively little effort has been devoted to considering a language’s sociolinguistic contexts. In parts ... -
Book review: Childs, G. Tucker (2003). An Introduction to African Languages
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Can GOLD “cope” with WALS? Retrofitting an ontology onto the World Atlas of Language Structures
(E-MELD, 2005)The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS, Haspelmath et al. 2005) is a large-scale “database of databases” consisting of 141 typological databases, covering a wide range of grammatical features, joined into one ... -
Children's perception of dialect variation
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)A speaker’s regional dialect is a rich source of information about that person. Two studies examined five- to six-year-old children’s perception of regional dialect: Can they perceive differences among dialects ? Have ... -
Clause combining in Chechen
(John Benjamins, 2003)Chechen exhibits three major strategies for the combination of clauses: coordination, chaining, and subordination. The major formal characteristics of these three traditional categories of clause linking are discussed ... -
Commentary on the Bostoen et al.’s Middle to Late Holocene paleoclimatic change and the early Bantu Expansion in the rain forests of western Central Africa
(University of Chicago Press, 2015)The paper by Bostoen et al. is a landmark attempt to synthesize results from a range of disciplines in order to refine our understanding of the Bantu expansion. It comes at an important moment in the field of linguistics ... -
‘Community’ collaboration in Africa: Experiences from Northwest Cameroon
(SOAS, 2012)A prominent feature of the literature on language documentation has been the importance of designing documentary projects in ways that allow speaker communities to benefit from the work of an outside researcher. Canonical ... -
Complex landscape terms in Seri
(Elsevier, 2008)The nominal lexicon of Seri is characterized by a prevalence of analytical descriptive terms. We explore the consequences of this typological trait in the landscape domain. The complex landscape terms of Seri classify ...