Showing papers in "Lingua in 2006"

TL;DR: The authors considers two post-Gricean attempts to provide an explanatory account of verbal irony: echoic use of language in which the speaker tacitly dissociates herself from an attributed utterance or thought, and pretence as a type of pretence, where the speaker "makes as if" to perform a certain speech act, expecting her audience to see through the pretence and recognise the mocking or critical attitude behind it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relevance of the decomposition of CP for the syntax of adverbial clauses and argue that complements of factive predicates can also instantiate the reduced structures.

TL;DR: The authors reanalyze a variety of arguments which have been used in support of the non-truth-conditional view and show that they can be handled on an alternative analysis of epistemic modality.

TL;DR: It is argued that the animacy hierarchy is also relevant to the syntax of an apparently “non-animacy-based” language like Italian, and that the difference between the two systems depends on the recursion of the person-checking field in languages likeItalian, versus the projection of a single person- checking field in language like Plains Cree.

TL;DR: This article examined acoustic and psycholinguistic data on L2 vowel perception, and looked closely at the adaptation of English [ae] and [] in English loans into Cantonese, which lacks both these vowels.

TL;DR: The authors investigate the influence of orthography on loanword adaptation by means of an experiment in which late French-English bilinguals produce on-line adaptations of English non-words, in half of the experiment, the stimuli are presented orally only, whereas in the other half, the oral stimuli are accompanied by their written representation.

TL;DR: The authors review the results of a study of an 800-word corpus of loanwords from English into Thai and consider their relevance for models of loanword adaptation, focusing on the context-free adaptation of consonants; the correspondences between the voiceless aspirated, voiceless unaspirated, and voiced stops of the two languages; adaptations to accommodate Thai's CRVC syllable template; and the selection of a tone for the loanword.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed loanword accentuation in Japanese with main focus on its relation with native accentuation and found that loanwords display remarkably different accent patterns from native words, with the former but not the latter favoring the accented pattern over the unaccented one.

TL;DR: This article investigated the syntactic status of post-focus constituents in Italian, examining their properties with respect to binding, negative polarity licensing, clitic resumption, wh-extraction, and fragmental answers among others.

TL;DR: It is argued that epenthesis patterns are more complex than usually assumed with respect to vowel quality and claims that a default (unmarked or perceptually least salient) vowel is usually inserted are challenged.

TL;DR: This paper examined aspects of English and Afrikaans loanword incorporation into the southern Bantu language Sesotho, focusing specifically on the process of vowel epenthesis and found that the place features of the epenthetic vowel, as well as the direction from which these features are copied, is completely predictable, but only if contrastive feature specification is assumed.

TL;DR: This analysis differs from most constraint-based approaches in assuming segment-internal representations, providing an explicit mechanism to explain the inventory (including justifying particular feature specifications), and providing a unified account of both the inventory and phonological process facts.

TL;DR: The authors examined the difference between these approaches in the light of adverbial parenthetical clauses whose relationship with their hosts depends on pragmatically constrained inference, and showed how such examples underline two very different conceptions of the distinction between grammar and pragmatics.

TL;DR: Whether Welsh-English is a “classic case” of code-switching in that a matrix language can be clearly identified in bilingual clauses is determined, and general support for the three principles associated with it is suggested.

TL;DR: A study of non-lexicalized adaptations of English words into the Hawaiian language, based on data elicited from two Hawaiian–English bilingual speakers, using a system of OT constraints which draws and expands upon the notion of articulatory similarity from PAM and perceptual similarity from the P-map.

TL;DR: This article found that participants with Down syndrome have difficulties comprehending reflexives, but not pronouns, and that the interpretation of reflexives depends on a syntactic relation between the reflexive element and its antecedent.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence for, and explication of, these claims based on an examination of the distribution of the ergative markers in a corpus of mostly narrative texts.

TL;DR: The sonority proposal attempts to characterise how messages are heard and has little to say about how they are understood, but treating it as an independently phonological entity is not an appealing option.

TL;DR: This paper argued that Malagasy, a predicate-initial language, has only wh-in-situ and wh-movement strategies, in which the initial wh-phrase is a predicate and the following material is a headless relative clause in subject position.

TL;DR: The authors examined a group of phonological processes, the initial consonant mutations of the Celtic languages, and argued that they belong entirely to the morphology of the languages, not the phonology.

TL;DR: The authors examined the borrowing into Korean of English words having a word-final /s/ followed by an epenthetic vowel, and pointed out certain problematic aspects of the durational view of the borrowing of English /s/, and, then, offer a different account of English final /s/) as tense by referencing phenomena internal to Korean phonology.

TL;DR: Evidence that Negative Concord in a single language can simultaneously realize two cross-linguistically available options along two parameters is provided, which parameters are thereby shown to be available in typological terms independently of each other.

TL;DR: Ngonyani et al. as discussed by the authors investigated applicative constructions in various Bantu languages and revealed two types: symmetrical object languages in which both objects in double object applicatives exhibit the same syntactic properties, and asymmetric object languages, where the two objects do not behave the same way.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the effects of negation and contrast on Finnish word order and presents a detailed analysis of the structure of the Finnish left periphery which makes use of this information-structural property in order to account for the seemingly surprising changes concerning the positions where contrastive constituents can occur.

TL;DR: The degree to which the explanations offered by these different approaches generalize across A- and A ′ -movement, across different structural contexts, and across the phenomena of displacement and agreement is explored, and whether such generalization is empirically warranted in each case.

TL;DR: This article examined the correlation of +/� perfective verb forms in Greek and null objects with indefinite, non-specific interpretation, and found that perfective verbs show an interpretive difference at the LF interface depending on the overt versus null nature of the direct object.

TL;DR: The authors consider the order and interpretation of adjectives in Welsh in more detail, arguing that the ordering data for Welsh adjectives is more complex than this, with both "universal" and "mirror-image" orders appearing under certain circumstances.

TL;DR: It is argued that most markedness constraints may in fact emerge in the course of linguistic development through the child's monitoring of her own performance, and that infants require knowledge of markedness during language acquisition in order to transcend the limitations of inductive generalization.

TL;DR: The present study introduces the Core Semantic Override Principle and lends support to the Usage-Based Model, and discusses the implementation and interaction of principles proposed by other students of gender assignment.

TL;DR: This paper investigated word final deletion patterns in English loanword adaptations and in various other phonological data, finding that the preference for voiceless plosives (T) over voiced ones (D) in the postnasal context (N_#) is the most robust pattern.