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The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi

The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi

1st Edition

By Rajesh Kumar
August 12, 2014

This books studies syntax of NPIs and their interaction with sentential negatives in Hindi. It outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within the structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi ...

Case Configuration and Noun Phrase Interpretation

Case Configuration and Noun Phrase Interpretation

1st Edition

By Helen Dehoop
October 01, 1996

First Published in 1997. The present study examines the relation between two types of structural Case on the one hand, and the interpretation of NPs on the other. The author argues that there are two types of structural Case, to wit weak D-structural and strong S-structural Case. The hypothesis ...

The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology

The Articulatory Basis of Locality in Phonology

1st Edition

By Adamantios I. Gafos
April 08, 2014

This work elucidates the nature of the notion of Locality in phonology, describing the minimal conditions under which sounds assimilate to one another. The central thesis is that a sound can assimilate to another sound only if gestural contiguity is established between these two sounds. The ...

The Ups and Downs of Child Language Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena

The Ups and Downs of Child Language: Experimental Studies on Children's Knowledge of Entailment Relationships and Polarity Phenomena

1st Edition

By Andrea Gualmini
September 12, 2011

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 children's semantic competence, adopting the same theoretical framework that has proven useful to the study of children's syntactic competence. Andrea ...

The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi

The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals: A Case Study from Ju|'hoansi

1st Edition

By Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen
March 13, 2014

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories. It also includes the first quantitative study of phonation types in Khoesan languages, and the first study of phonation types associated with pharyngeal ...

Toward Logical Form An Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Semantics

Toward Logical Form: An Exploration of the Role of Syntax in Semantics

1st Edition

By Lisa A. Reed
March 05, 2014

First Published in 1997. This book is devoted to an in-depth investigation of some of the properties of Logical Form (LF). The syntactic analyses argued for in this book are couched in terms of Chomsky’s Principles and Parameters approach prior to its most recent version known as “Minimalism” (...

True to Form Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English

1st Edition

By Christine Gunlogson
February 13, 2014

This book is concerned with the meaning and use of two kinds of declarative sentences:1) It's raining?2) It's raining.The difference between (1) and (2) is intonational: (1) has a final rise--indicated by the question mark--while (2) ends with a fall.Christine Gunlogson's central claim is that the ...

Lenition and Contrast The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes

Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes

1st Edition

By Naomi Gurevich
January 14, 2014

This book analyzes 153 languages from a large variety of families to establish a previously unexplored relationship between phonetically conditioned sound changes such as lenitions and functional (meaning maintenance related) considerations. Carefully collecting numerous inventories of consonants, ...

Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectical Study

Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian: A Synchronic and Diachronic Cross-Dialectical Study

1st Edition

By Doris Angel Borrelli
June 14, 2002

First Published in 2002. The Italian phenomenon known as raddoppiamento sintattico, or sometimes raddoppiamento fonosintattico, has received a vast amount of attention. Long recognized in Italian grammar books, the process consists of the gemination of a word-initial consonant in certain ...

Causes and Consequences of Word Structure

Causes and Consequences of Word Structure

1st Edition

By Jennifer Hay
December 11, 2013

This book explores effects of speech perception strategies upon morphological structure. Using connectionist modeling, perception and production experiments, and calculations over lexica, Jennifer Hay investigates the role of two factors known to be relevant to speech perception: phonotactics and ...

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

Artificial Hearing, Natural Speech: Cochlear Implants, Speech Production, and the Expectations of a High-Tech Society

1st Edition

By Joanna Hart Lowenstein
March 21, 2013

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...

Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems

Interactions between Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints in Vowel Systems

1st Edition

By Viola Giulia Miglio
April 30, 2012

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 ...

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