Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

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1. Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech

   Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

   By Joanna Hart Lowenstein

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   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 (electrode and computer prostheses for the inner ear in cases of nerve deafness). The methodology is based on the work...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Telicity and Durativity

   A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

   By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   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 natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems

   By Viola Giulia Miglio

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   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 its analysis of the Great Vowel Shift, this book elaborates a more useful model of a unitary change even in a surface-oriented theory such...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

   Evidence from Spanish and English

   By Eugenia Casielles-Suárez

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Ups and Downs of Child Language

   Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena

   By Andrea Gualmini

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Semantics of the Future

   By Bridget Copley

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   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 on future-referring expressions, this is the first treatment of such a variety of expressions in a formal semantic...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Reassessing the Role of the Syllable in Italian Phonology

   An Experimental Study of Consonant Cluster Syllabification, Definite Article Allomorphy, and Segment Duration

   By Kristie McCrary Kambourakis

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   Published December 5th 2006 by Routledge
8. The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi

   By Rajesh Kumar

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   Syntactic analysis of the licensing of negative polarity items....

   Published February 2nd 2006 by Routledge
9. Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

   By Ren Zhang

   Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

   Published May 17th 2005 by Routledge
10. Phonological Augmentation in Prominent Positions

    By Jennifer L. Smith

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    Published January 10th 2005 by Routledge