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Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
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Input-based Phonological Acquisition
This book provides an analysis of two current theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of language provided… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96789-1 (Routledge)
Ellipsis and wa-marking in Japanese Conversation
This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96764-8 (Routledge)
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Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension
Processing Hindi Center Embeddings
Advancing the understanding of human parsing processes, this book is a landmark in cross-linguistic research, presenting a challenging set of sentence processing facts that will… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96761-7 (Routledge)
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Existential Faithfullness
A Study of Reduplicative TETU, Feature Movement and Dissimulation
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94153-2 (Routledge)
The Effects of Duration and Sonority on Countour Tone Distribution
A Typological Survey and Formal Analysis
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94156-3 (Routledge)
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The Presupposition and Discourse Functions of the Japanese Particle Mo
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94167-9 (Routledge)
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The Syntax of Possession in Japanese
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94162-4 (Routledge)
The Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English
Effects of Prosody on Articulation in English gives a comprehensive account of effects of prosody on articulation in English in terms of prosodically-conditioned articulatory strengthening.… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94169-3 (Routledge)
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Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns
A Case of Contrastive Palatalization
Production, Perception and Phontactic Patterns presents the first experimental study of articulatory dynamics of Russian and of secondary articulents in general, with a special focus… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94154-9 (Routledge)
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