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The Semantics of the Future
This book builds a semantics for several kinds of future-referring expressions, including will sentences, be going to sentences, and futurates. While there exists previous work…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97116-4 (Routledge)
Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech
Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society
This book explores the interface between speech perception and production through a longitudinal acoustic analysis of the speech of postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97604-6 (Routledge)
Telicity and Durativity
A Study of Aspect in Dėne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German
This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97645-9 (Routledge)
Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology
An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy, and Segment Duration
Linguists claim that the syllable plays a fundamental role in the production and perception of spoken language. One of the main arguments for the… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97610-7 (Routledge)
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The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97646-6 (Routledge)
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Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese
As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97100-3 (Routledge)
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Category Neutrality
A Type-Logical Investigation
"Feature neutrality" is an issue that has received much attention among linguists. For example, consider the sentence, "I have never, and will never, put… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97094-5 (Routledge)
Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions
Phonologically prominent or "strong" positions are well known for their ability to resist positional neutralization processes such as vowel reduction or place assimilation. However, there… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97107-2 (Routledge)
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Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems
Miglio argues that to assess the relative markedness of a segment, frequency of occurrence in vowel inventories is insufficient when considered on its own. In… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96780-8 (Routledge)
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The Ups and Downs of Child Language
Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena
The new experimental evidence presented in The Ups and Downs of Child Language shows that it is possible to extend research on child language to… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97125-6 (Routledge)