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{"title":"Automated phylogeny of Palaung dialects","authors":"Junsung Lee","doi":"10.17161/1808.31661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.31661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47968573","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}

{"title":"Detecting integration of top-down information using the mismatch negativity: Preliminary evidence from phoneme restoration","authors":"Charles Redmon, Yuyu Zeng, Y. Kidwai, Xiao Yang, Delaney Wilson, R. Fiorentino","doi":"10.17161/1808.30414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.30414","url":null,"abstract":"The current study utilizes mismatch negativity in the phenomenon of phoneme restoration to investigate the critical debate regarding the integration of top down (lexical) and bottom up (acoustic) processing in spoken word recognition. Phoneme restoration, which occurs when phonemes missing from a speech signal are restored by the brain and may appear to be heard, was examined in a multi-standard oddball paradigm. Participants heard stimuli while watching a quiet animated film. Stimuli were divided into word and nonword conditions, with noise added to some stimuli to make them ambiguous. The many-to-one ratio of standards to deviants for generation of mismatch negativity (MMN) was achieved only if the brain could recover the missing phoneme in the ambiguous, noise-spliced stimuli. Both word and nonword conditions were compared to verify that an elicited MMN among words was contingent on involvement of the lexicon in the grouping of standards, and not some more general cognitive grouping procedure. Results from seven participants show preliminary support for the predicted effect: i.e., mismatch negativity for words but not for nonwords. This effect is contingent on phoneme restoration, and thus is consistent with recent literature suggesting that MMN is sensitive to higher information structures such as the mental lexicon.","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44962285","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}

{"title":"What is Definite and what is not in South Eastern Wastek","authors":"Jonah Bates","doi":"10.17161/1808.29722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.29722","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a critical look at the glossing of the morpheme an as a definite article in a recently published corpus of the South Eastern dialect of Wastek Mayan, where it sometimes appears in contexts without corresponding nominals, without the semantics of definiteness, or in typologically marked word orders. Three structures involving an are considered: 1. an PREP1 NOUN word order, 2. post-topic an, and 3. subordinating an. This paper concludes that an is best separated into two different morphemes: its expected use as a definite article (with an ti NOUN order explained through D-to-P raising) and a clausal head in the left periphery. Further, evidence shows that both article and complementizer an have a clitic hosting allomorph n-. Finally, rather than positing a synchronic relationship between DPand CP-dwelling an, they are claimed to have both descended from a Proto-Mayan demonstrative.","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43300676","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}

{"title":"Experimenting with pro-drop in Telugu and Indian English","authors":"Kothakonda Suman","doi":"10.17161/1808.29604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.29604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49167876","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}

{"title":"Initial clusters in pre-Proto-Nivkh: Internal reconstruction from Proto-Nivkh","authors":"Robert Halm","doi":"10.17161/1808.29439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.29439","url":null,"abstract":"Building on recent work towards the reconstruction of Protoand pre-Proto-Nivkh (Fortescue, 2016; Janhunen, 2016; Halm, 2017; Halm & Slater, 2018), we use internal reconstruction to investigate two developments (probably regular sound changes) of initial consonant clusters in pre-Proto-Nivkh, taking rigorously reconstructable Proto-Nivkh forms as our point of departure. These developments are: (1) the surface-level loss of an original manner contrast (perhaps plosive-versus-fricative) in oral obstruents in cluster-second position, leaving only a morphophonemic contrast (between obstruents which show a predictable plosive-fricative alternation under prefixation and those which remain fricatives invariantly) as its reflex; and much more tentatively, (2) the deletion of original palatal glides in syllable onsets originally containing any consonant cluster.","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41683528","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}

{"title":"WU-Type Construction in Karaja","authors":"M. Maia","doi":"10.17161/1808.26773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.26773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67512938","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}

{"title":"Mixed Origins of Santiagueño Quechua Syntax","authors":"G. Lorenzino","doi":"10.17161/1808.26772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.26772","url":null,"abstract":"Long-tenn contact of Santiagueilo Quechua speakers with the majority Spanish-speaking population has modified their linguistic repertoire. Language mixing on all linguistic levels, variable loss of competence in Quechua and language shift to Spanish were assessed by means of sociolingl.)istic interviews, linguistic elicitation techniques and ethnographic work. Language shift can be interpreted within a long-term sociohistorical pattern of social inequality and subordination of one group (Quechua-speaking, traditional American Indian culture} to another (Spanish-speaking, modem Euro-American culture}.This study attempts to insert Santiagueilo Quechua within current research on other syncretic or mixed American Indian-European languages such as Media Lengua, Mexicano and Michif Cree, all the result of intense cultural contact between American Indian and European languages. Sociohistorical Overview Jn Santiago del Estero (Argentina) Santiagueilo Quechua (called Quichua locally; SQ henceforth) is spoken mainly in the central departments located in the rural areas, especially along and in between the Dulce River and Salado River, which traversed the province from northwest to southwest. All SQ speakers can also speak regional Spanish with different degrees of fluency and native-language interference, though it is unlikely SQ monolingual speakers are found to be alive even among the oldest people. In these remote rural enclaves children grow up speaking SQ at home and acquire Spanish in school. Despite the existence of a 1983 provincial decree allowing the teaching of Quechua in primary schools, in actuality only a few schools recruited and trained bilingual teachers to do so (Censabella 1999:41). Nonetheless, SQ remains one of the few Argentina's indigenous languages taught in universities and institutes. It was Prof. Domingo Bravo, a self-taught Santiagueiio rural teacher, who almost single-handedly contributed to a renewed interest and preservation of SQ. Through his teaching of the language to a younger generation of SQ teachers and his publications he helped much to preserve the language. Indeed, much of what is known about SQ Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics v25, ppl J 1-120","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67512919","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}

{"title":"Nasalization in Northern Pame","authors":"Scott C. Berthiaume","doi":"10.17161/1808.26774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.26774","url":null,"abstract":"Northern Pame nasal stops manifest a [-nasal] secondary feature (i.e. prestopping and poststopping) in the environment of an oral vowel. Specifically, nasal stops following an oral vowel have two phases, an oral closure and a nasal release, while nasal stops preceeding and oral vowel loose their nasal distinction completely. In this paper, I propose an aperture analysis where a segment's closure and release may come into play in the linking of a [-nasal] feature. In addition, I suggest that Northern Pame oral vowels may be better specified as underlyingly [-nasal] while nasal vowels remain unmarked for nasality, deriving their feature specification through default rules. Finally, it is shown that the phenomenon of [-nasal] spreading is productive typologically in a similar pattern to that of Northern Pame.","PeriodicalId":32135,"journal":{"name":"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67512949","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}