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Languages put restrictions on large sonority distances 语言对大的声音距离有限制
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5550
Rui-hong Yin
{"title":"Languages put restrictions on large sonority distances","authors":"Rui-hong Yin","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5550","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5550","url":null,"abstract":"An underlying assumption in terms of sonority distances is that clusters with large sonority distances are more common than those with small distances, as captured in the unmarked status of large sonority distances and formalized in terms of sonority constraints on consonant clusters. A cross-linguistic survey of attested sonority distances in 357 languages reveals that large sonority distances are not most commonly attested. Rather, there is a point of sonority distance at which the largest number of languages is attested. When the sonority distance exceeds a particular value, the number of languages starts to decrease, regardless of the sonority scales tested. The finding puts the unmarked status of large sonority distances to the test, suggesting a potential constraint that prevents large distances from surfacing.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120993543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Word-final strength and weakness 最终的优势和劣势
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5562
Anya Hogoboom, Joseph Lorber
{"title":"Word-final strength and weakness","authors":"Anya Hogoboom, Joseph Lorber","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5562","url":null,"abstract":"Word-final syllables are known to show phonological strength, presumably due to final lengthening (Steriade 1994; Barnes 2002), but also phonological weakness. We propose that final weakening effects are also due to final lengthening under the assumption that duration due a phonetic source (i.e. final lengthening) is not on linguistic par with duration from a phonological source. We show further support for our proposal through the results of perception studies with adults that show less sensitivity to word-final duration differences. We note that child language phonology often shows unexpected final syllable strength and include two such diary studies with English-learning children. We propose that this difference between child and adult phonology is due to children not yet having learned to differentiate the import of duration based on its source.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133851276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Linguistic illusions and misconceptions: The role of language variation in language development across three varieties of American English 语言错觉与误解:语言变异在三种美式英语语言发展中的作用
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5532
C. Christodoulou, I. Tsimpli
{"title":"Linguistic illusions and misconceptions: The role of language variation in language development across three varieties of American English","authors":"C. Christodoulou, I. Tsimpli","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5532","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research on the linguistic abilities of Southern English- (SE) and African-American English-speaking children (SAAE) revealed unexpectedly high rates of risk for a language disorder (Christodoulou & Tsimpli 2021; Moland & Oetting 2021). This study examines the performance of 139 SE-, 46 SAAE-, and 35 Mainstream American English-speaking children (MAE), aged 2-13, and analyzes their performance, through twelve sections, in four key linguistic domains: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology, using a standardized assessment test. Results revealed a parallel performance across the three groups in all linguistic domains. The highest means of accuracy were noted with phonology and the lowest with semantics. Analysis of the participants’ performance by age evidenced a virtually identical performance across the three groups after age 6 or 7, but considerable variations were noted with younger children. Results from the current study contradict results from previous work showing considerably high rates of risk for a language disorder for the SAAE-speaking children, as their performance is parallel to not only that of SE-speaking children but it also the performance of MAE-speaking children. Results from the current study could help guide educational policies, especially for early education programs, as well as diagnostic assessment and rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115051399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Swimming in the desert? The role of environment in motion verb acquisition 在沙漠里游泳?环境在运动动词习得中的作用
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-05-03 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5543
Alice Benjamin, Kaitlyn P. Harrigan
{"title":"Swimming in the desert? The role of environment in motion verb acquisition","authors":"Alice Benjamin, Kaitlyn P. Harrigan","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5543","url":null,"abstract":"Any event includes countless components, giving the learner many possible options in mapping verb meanings. Previous research demonstrates that children are sensitive to the distribution of motion verbs in their language, mapping ambiguous verb-event pairings to manner if their language has more manner verbs, like English, and path if their language has more path verbs, like Spanish. Previous work also demonstrates that children have some sensitivity visual components, such an event’s location, when they are learning motion verbs. Our study explores how the learner weighs components of visual scene against the distributional factors present in their language. Like previous studies, we find that English-learning children are better at encoding manner than path information. Additionally, we build on previous work on motion verb acquisition, showing that children are differentially influenced by different kinds of background environments.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125039126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Non-local matching of adjectival modifiers in Mandarin stacked relative clauses 汉语叠置关系从句中形容词修饰语的非局部匹配
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5489
Jing Ji
{"title":"Non-local matching of adjectival modifiers in Mandarin stacked relative clauses","authors":"Jing Ji","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5489","url":null,"abstract":"Bhatt (2002) argues for a head-raising analysis (HRA) of relative clauses based on the interpretation of certain adjectival modifiers on the head. This paper evaluates Bhatt’s argument in the configurations of stacked relative clauses (SRCs) in Mandarin and argues that the internal interpretation of adjectival modifiers on the head is not a sufficient argument for HRA. We show that adjectival modifiers on the external head of SRCs can receive an internal interpretation when reconstruction is not possible. We propose that the internal reading can instead be derived by non-local matching between the adjectival modifier and its internal representation.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115213783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Prosodic disambiguation of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese 普通话“不定音”的韵律消歧
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5556
Hongchen Wu, Jiwon Yun
{"title":"Prosodic disambiguation of wh-indeterminates in Mandarin Chinese","authors":"Hongchen Wu, Jiwon Yun","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5556","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on naturally occurring ambiguous utterances like “Zhōngguóduì shuí yě dǎ-bù-guò” in Mandarin to study if/how prosody is used for disambiguation of wh-indeterminates. The results of our production study suggest that wh-indeterminates are disambiguated prosodically. For the wh-region, interrogative readings are distinguished from indefinite readings by having a longer duration and higher maximum pitch. For the pre-wh region, longer duration was observed when the wh-word received interrogative readings and left-dislocated. For the post-wh region, significantly greater pitch excursion was observed for indefinite reading than for interrogative reading. In particular, the novel finding of post-wh pitch compression for wh-interrogatives in Mandarin is in line with what has been attested in other wh-in-situ languages, such as Japanese and Korean, which suggests shared prosodic mechanisms for disambiguating wh-indeterminates in wh-in-situ languages.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115616875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Ͻkere is doing something different in adnominal possession Ͻkere在名义占有方面做了一些不同的事情
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5464
Okrah Oppong
{"title":"Ͻkere is doing something different in adnominal possession","authors":"Okrah Oppong","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5464","url":null,"abstract":"Cross-linguistically, some languages make a morphosyntactic distinction between alienable and inalienable adnominal possession, where alienable possession is more morphologically marked, and inalienable possession shows a tighter structural bond between the possessor and possessee. In this paper, I show that Ɔkere violates these cross-linguistic generalizations differently. I also show that two types of mó occur in the language, one is a possessive marker, and the other is an independent pronoun. Again, I show that the nature of the possessive marker and the independent pronoun leads to a pro-drop in inalienable possession. The data and analysis in this paper favor proposing an overt possessive marker and a covert possessive marker. This paper adds to the literature on the exceptions to the cross-linguistic generalizations on adnominal possession by showing that the exceptions to the cross-linguistic generalizations may manifest differently in some languages. ","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125091500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Introducing arguments beyond the thematic domain 引入超出主题领域的论点
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5463
Soo-hwan Lee
{"title":"Introducing arguments beyond the thematic domain","authors":"Soo-hwan Lee","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5463","url":null,"abstract":"Extensive research has focused on how VoiceP (Kratzer 1996), ApplP (Pylkkänen 2008), and i* (Wood & Marantz 2017), an overarching term for Voice and Appl, establish argument structure inside the thematic domain (below TP). A question arises as to whether argument structure can be established outside the thematic domain (above TP). This work provides empirical evidence from Korean in suggesting that an argument can be introduced by Voice/Appl (i*) in the left periphery. Specifically, it lends support to the claim that the discourse participant ‘addressee’ is represented in syntax (Haegeman & Hill 2013; Miyagawa 2017; 2022; Portner et al. 2019 among others). In this regard, this work draws parallels between the thematic domain and the speech act domain, which have been considered to be two separate domains.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126129225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish 学习非宾格性:儿童西班牙语中分裂非及物性的证据
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5557
Victoria Mateu, Laurel Perkins, N. Hyams
{"title":"Learning unaccusativity: Evidence for split intransitivity in child Spanish","authors":"Victoria Mateu, Laurel Perkins, N. Hyams","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5557","url":null,"abstract":"We examine four features of unaccusativity in child-directed and child Spanish to determine what cues children might use to distinguish unaccusative and unergative verbs. Two are cross-linguistic lexico-semantic features: Subjects of unaccusatives are patients so we expect more inanimate subjects with unaccusatives; and unaccusatives tend to have an endpoint, hence may occur more frequently with perfective aspect. The other two are language-specific morphosyntactic features: VS order is grammatical with unaccusatives but not unergatives, and many unaccusative verbs allow/require the anticausative se clitic. We find all four features robustly in children's input and that even 1-2-year-olds show discriminate use of them.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122381669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive 小音:英语小音的形态音韵学
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5497
Colin Davis
{"title":"The morpho-phonology of an English diminutive","authors":"Colin Davis","doi":"10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5497","url":null,"abstract":"I describe and analyze the morpho-phonology of the English diminutive suffix /-i/, as in doggy, birdie, horsie, and so on. My first goal is to argue that unlike most other diminutives in English this suffix is productive, though subject to a phonological constraint. Specifically, I show that this suffix must be adjacent to a stressed syllable—a requirement that motivates exceptional truncations. I propose that thesefacts provide a clear instance of a morpheme-specific phonological constraint. My second goal is to examine how this diminutive interacts with nouns that normally have irregular plural forms. I show that this diminutive can block irregular plural morphology, but optionally allows the persistence of plural ablaut. I explain these facts using an analysis in which morphological rules require adjacency between the triggering node and the affected one, along with a proposal that the English diminutive /-i/ is an adjunct/modifier which can be attached late in the derivation.","PeriodicalId":299752,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129142738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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