Search Results - "Glossa (London)"

Syntactic and cognitive issues in investigating gendered coreference by Ackerman, Lauren

“…This paper presents a framework for how the multifaceted nature of “gender” (human and linguistic) interacts with grammatical operations such as coreference…”
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Growing trees: The acquisition of the left periphery by Friedmann, Naama, Belletti, Adriana, Rizzi, Luigi

“…We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of the acquisition of various syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on the main results reported…”
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The subject advantage in relative clauses: A review by Lau, Elaine, Tanaka, Nozomi

“…The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different…”
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What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality by Preminger, Omer

“…Based on the cross- and intra-linguistic distribution of Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects, this paper shows that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features…”
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Polysemy and co-predication by Ortega-Andrés, Marina, Vicente, Agustín

“…Many word forms in natural language are polysemous, but only some of them allow for co-predication, that is, they allow for simultaneous predications selecting…”
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In support of representational economy: Agreement in heritage Spanish by Scontras, Gregory, Polinsky, Maria, Fuchs, Zuzanna

“…This paper investigates the morphosyntax of number and gender agreement in English-dominant heritage speakers of Spanish. Our study builds on the experimental…”
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On definiteness and person in Romanian vocatives by Croitor, Blanca, Giurgea, Ion

“…We investigate the correlations between the various morphosyntactic types of Romanian vocatives (+/- vocative-morphology, +/- definiteness) and the main types…”
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Relevance without existence: Experimenting on blind implicatures with empty domains by Buyko, Maria, Moscati, Vincenzo, Pistoia Reda, Salvatore

“…The present paper presents experimental evidence confirming that contextually mismatching scalar implicatures can be generated even when quantifiers range over…”
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Investigating the universality of consonant and vowel co-occurrence restrictions by Doucette, Amanda, O'Donnell, Timothy J, Sonderegger, Morgan, Goad, Heather

“…Certain phonotactic constraints on the co-occurrence of segments appear to be much more common across the world’s languages than others. In many languages,…”
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Prosodic prominence does not speed up word recognition in a word monitoring task with German adult speakers by Zeyer, Barbara, Penke, Martina

“…Prosodically prominent accent types have been proven to facilitate word recall as well as referent identification in eye-tracking studies. In the present…”
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The verbal expression of events of change in Bulgarian by Karagjosova, Elena

“…The paper explores the verbal expression of events of change in Bulgarian, a Slavic language with a uniquely complex verbal system involving triplets of…”
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Verum focus is verum, not focus: Cross-linguistic evidence by Gutzmann, Daniel, Hartmann, Katharina, Matthewson, Lisa

“…The accent pattern known as verum focus is commonly understood as an ordinary alternative focus on the truth of a proposition. This standard view, which we…”
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A tale of two Tagalogs by Pizarro-Guevara, Jed Sam, Wagers, Matthew

“…A well-received generalization in Tagalog is that only the argument that is cross-referenced by voice is eligible for A-bar extraction. However, recent work…”
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Uniformity in speech: The economy of reuse and adaptation across contexts by Derrick, Donald, Mayer, Connor, Gick, Bryan

“…North American English (NAE) flaps/taps and rhotic vowels have been shown to exhibit extreme variability that can be categorized into subphonemic variants…”
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Anaphoric demonstratives occur with fewer and different pointing gestures than exophoric demonstratives by Skilton, Amalia

“…This study investigates the co-organization of place-referring demonstratives (e.g. here/there) and pointing gestures by speakers of Ticuna. Ticuna is an…”
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L1 P-Chopping and L2 Null-Preposition: the same output, a different nature by Santo, Ana Espírito

“…This paper addresses the nature of P-Chopping/Null-Preposition in the grammars of native speakers (N = 30) and Chinese-speaking learners (N = 72) of European…”
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Metrical enhancement in American English nuclear tunes by Steffman, Jeremy, Cole, Jennifer

“…We present two experiments aimed at testing the nature of intonational categories through the lens of enhancement. In an imitative speech production paradigm,…”
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L2 Spanish clitics among Brazilian Portuguese-speaking learners: the predictive role of lexical knowledge by Jimenez, Abril, López Otero, Julio César, DePue, Isabella

“…We examined the acquisition of third-person accusative clitics (e.g., lo, la, los, las) in L2 Spanish among Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers. In BP, the…”
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Prepositional Verbs and the Individual-/Stage-Level distinction by Acedo-Matellán, Víctor, Oltra-Massuet, Isabel

“…Drawing on Catalan, we show how the aspectual classification of intransitive prepositional verbs is, partially, a predictor of their argument…”
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Constituency in classifier expressions: Ch’ol and beyond by Dékány, Éva

“…This paper considers recent arguments from the literature that have been deemed supportive of the view that in Ch’ol (Mayan) numerals and classifiers form a…”
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