Search Results - "McGregor, William B."

The production and detection of deception in an interactive game by Sip, Kamila E., Lynge, Morten, Wallentin, Mikkel, McGregor, William B., Frith, Christopher D., Roepstorff, Andreas

“…▶ This study examines production and detection of deception in a two-person game. ▶ The study allows for free choice in decision-making. ▶ Deception is not…”
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Thought complements in Australian languages by McGregor, William B.

“…Very little has been written on the grammar of complement constructions in Australian Aboriginal languages. Grammars rarely provide much information, and few…”
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What if I Get Busted? Deception, Choice, and Decision-Making in Social Interaction by Sip, Kamila E, Skewes, Joshua C, Marchant, Jennifer L, McGregor, William B, Roepstorff, Andreas, Frith, Christopher D

“…Deception is an essentially social act, yet little is known about how social consequences affect the decision to deceive. In this study, participants played a…”
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When Pinocchio's nose does not grow: belief regarding lie-detectability modulates production of deception by Sip, Kamila E, Carmel, David, Marchant, Jennifer L, Li, Jian, Petrovic, Predrag, Roepstorff, Andreas, McGregor, William B, Frith, Christopher D

“…Does the brain activity underlying the production of deception differ depending on whether or not one believes their deception can be detected? To address this…”
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Intensive Foreign Language Learning Reveals Effects on Categorical Perception of Sibilant Voicing After Only 3 Weeks by Nielsen, Andreas Højlund, Horn, Nynne Thorup, Sørensen, Stine Derdau, McGregor, William B., Wallentin, Mikkel

“…Models of speech learning suggest that adaptations to foreign language sound categories take place within 6 to 12 months of exposure to a foreign language…”
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Optional ergative case marking systems in a typological-semiotic perspective by McGregor, William B.

“…The term optional case marking (OCM) refers to the situation in which, in specifiable grammatical environments, a case marking morpheme may be either present…”
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Context and perceptual asymmetry effects on the mismatch negativity (MMNm) to speech sounds: an MEG study by Højlund, Andreas, Gebauer, Line, McGregor, William B., Wallentin, Mikkel

“…The mismatch negativity (MMN) of the auditory ERP/ERF has been shown to be sensitive to both phonetic and phonological contrasts. However, potential asymmetry…”
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Four counter-presumption constructions in Shua (Khoe-Kwadi, Botswana) by McGregor, William B.

“…•Four unusual and infrequent structures in Shua are described in detail.•These structures are grammatical signs that code counter-presumption meanings.•Their…”
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Typology of Ergativity by McGregor, William B.

“…Ergativity refers to patterning in a language whereby the subject of a transitive clause behaves differently to the subject of an intransitive clause, which…”
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Foreign language learning and the mismatch negativity (MMN): A longitudinal ERP study by Højlund, Andreas, Horn, Nynne Thorup, Sørensen, Stine Derdau, McGregor, William B., Wallentin, Mikkel

“…An early component of the auditory event-related potential (ERP), the mismatch negativity (MMN), has been shown to be sensitive to native phonemic sound…”
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Culture, Interaction and Person Reference in an Australian Language: An Ethnography of Bininj Gunwok Communication by Murray Garde (review) by McGregor, William B

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Kin Terms and Context among the Gooniyandi by McGregor, William B.

“…This article discusses some unusual uses of kin terms in Gooniyandi (non-Pama-Nyungan, Australia), uses that are unexpected given their senses as they appear…”
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Another view of the Gooniyandi “counterfactual” and its implications to the Van linden–Verstraete typology by McGregor, William B.

“…Van linden and Verstraete (2008) present a compelling typological investigation of counterfactuals in simple clauses, showing that they are usually marked by…”
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Focal and optional ergative marking in Warrwa (Kimberley, Western Australia) by McGregor, William B.

“…Warrwa is a morphologically ergative language with three ergative markers, - na, - ma, and - nma. Intriguingly, while - ma is almost in complementary…”
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The Semantics, Pragmatics, and Evolution of Two Verbless Negative Constructions in Nyulnyul by McGregor, William B.

“…This investigation is a contribution to understudied areas of Australian Aboriginal linguistics and linguistic typology: the negation of existential and…”
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Optional ergative marking and its implications for linguistic theory by McGregor, William B., Verstraete, Jean-Christophe

“…An introduction to this special issue section of this issue of Lingua describes the topic of optional ergative marking and present the five papers that…”
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Teaching & Learning Guide for: Typology of Ergativity by McGregor, William B.

“…Author’s Introduction Ergativity refers to patterning in which Agents (transitive subjects) show different linguistic behaviour to Actors (intransitive…”
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Ergative Marking of Intransitive Subjects in Warrwa by McGregor, William B.

“…As in a number of ergative languages, the ergative case-marker -na∼-ma in Warrwa is occasionally found on the subject of intransitive clauses, indeed even on…”
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Frs. Hermann Nekes and Ernest Worms's "Australian Languages" by McGregor, William B.

“…This article describes the circumstances surrounding the recent publication in book form and on CD-ROM of an edited version of Frs. Hermann Nekes and Ernest…”
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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Irrealis Mood in Nyulnyulan Languages by McGregor, William B., Tamsin Wagner

“…The languages of the small Nyulnyulan family of the far northwest of Western Australia all exhibit a grammatical category traditionally dubbed irrealis. In…”
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