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A Por as a Serial Preposition in Spanish
(The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
Un- Reveals antonymy in the lexicon
(The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
This paper addresses perceived blocking effects of the English adjectival prefix un- and the accuracy of its identification as a negator. Since un- appears to pattern among adjectives according to antonymy, I posit that ...
Metathesis with /r/ in Classical Armenian: An Optimality Theory Approach
(The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
One of the numerous phonological features that sets Classical Armenian apart from its Indo- European sister languages is the numerous instances of metathesis, many of which center around the Proto-Indo-European segment ...
Semantic Prosody and Intensifier Variation in Academic Speech
(The Linguistic Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
The study of English intensifiers has been of interest in sociolinguistic research. This paper analyzes the variation of common intensifiers very and really in a corpus of Academic English and the predicting language-internal ...
The Dynamics of the Bilingual Mental Lexicon: The Effects of Partial Conceptual Equivalence on the Acquisition of Russian as an L2
(The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
It has been shown that cross-linguistic variation between languages affects categorical perception in bilinguals. However, only a few cross-linguistic differences and their effects on conceptual storage and representation ...
Jingulu Vowel Harmony as Weak-Trigger Licensing
(The Linguistics Society at the University of Georgia, 2012)
The Australian Aboriginal language Jingulu exhibits an affix-triggered vowel harmony pattern that deviates from usual typological predictions. High vowels in a handful of specific Jingulu affixes harmonize unlimited strings ...