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Transitivity Harmony in the Rawang Language of Northern Myanmar
Published 2010-01-01
Among the Tibeto-Burman languages the importance of the marking of transitivity varies greatly, from transitivity not being a very useful concept at all to being extremely important to the understanding of the morphology ...
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Designed ‘to be’ or ‘not to be’ complete? The status of the –te form in Japanese syntax for conversation
Published 2010-01-01
According to the conversation analytic model of turn taking, the essential element for turn organization is the recognition of a turn at talk as being possibly complete – at possible completions speaker change becomes a ...
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The erosion of Norman French dialect features: evidence from linguistic atlases
Published 2010-01-01
This paper will investigate the replacement of one dialectal feature characteristic of bas normand (i.e. western Norman) – the evolutions of C+l – as attested in the Atlas linguistique de la France (ALF) (Edmont and ...
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Universal quantification in children’s English
Published 2010-01-01
Researchers since Inhelder and Piaget (1964) have replicated a curious finding. When using a picture-verification task (e.g., a picture of four elephants, three of them being ridden by boys), children have been shown to ...
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“And I was like ‘ah yeah, what are they talking about?’” – The use of quotatives in New Zealand English
Published 2010-01-01
Research in recent years has shown that the use of quotatives such as say, think and be like is an important narrative tool in English interactions. These devices can be used to make a story more immediate and entertaining ...
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Proceedings of the Australian Linguistic Society Conference 2008, held in Sydney: Editors’ introduction
Published 2010-01-01
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The treatment of reported speech
Published 2010-01-01
Despite the substantial literature on reported speech, its treatment in structural and quantitative-distributional analyses of discourse has remained problematic. This article surveys and discusses a range of methodological ...
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Is there any Evidence of Rhoticity in Historical Australian English?
Published 2010-01-01
Australian English is traditionally regarded as having been non-rhotic throughout its history, but a recent study by Trudgill and Gordon (2006) has found rhoticity levels of 1% to 20% in audio recordings of six Australian ...
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The Monash Corpus of Spoken Australian English
Published 2010-01-01
This paper takes stock of findings based on the Monash Corpus of Australian English. In 1996–97 members of the (then) Monash University Department of Linguistics embarked on the collection of a corpus in Victoria to ...
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