• The Domain of Phonological Processes 

      Baker, Brett
      Published 2005-10-10
      In many Australian languages, stress rules appear to apply to every suffix independently, before they are subjected to word-level phrasing (1). This pattern is difficult to account for whether we derive it in Lexical ...
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    • New and Traditional Values in Contemporary Russian: Natural Semantic Metalanguage in Cross-Cultural Semantics 

      Gladkova, Anna
      Published 2005-10-10
      Changes in value system of a society can find reflection in the semantic structure of a language. These differences can be studied on the basis of semantic comparison of value words – those that become a source of borrowing ...
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    • Acoustic Analysis of Maori: Historical Data 

      Maclagan, Margaret; Harlow, Ray; King, Jeanette; Keegan, Peter; Watson, Catherine
      Published 2005-10-10
      We present initial results of an acoustic analysis of the vowel system of a native speaker of Maori, RTH, who was born in 1885. RTH was recorded in 1947 by the Mobile Disc Recording Unit of the New Zealand Broadcasting ...
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    • The Cross-Linguistic Function of Obligatory 'do'-Periphrasis 

      Jäger, Andreas
      Published 2005-10-10
      The aim of this paper is to give a descriptive account of the range of functions that can be associated with obligatory ‘do’-periphrasis cross-linguistically based on a sample of 80 languages. A preliminary typological ...
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    • Distinguishing Prosodic Word and Phonological Word in Warlpiri: Prosodic Constituency in Morphologically Complex Words 

      Pentland, Christina; Laughren, Mary
      Published 2005-10-10
      Observations that the phonological word in Warlpiri does not map onto a single constituent in prosodic structure leads us to posit a three-way distinction between prosodic word (PWd), phonological word (PhonWd) and ...
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    • Acknowledging Strong Ties between Utterances in Talk: Connections through 'Right' as a Response Token 

      Gardner, Rod
      Published 2005-10-10
      Right is a response token in English that has been little studied. Its main uses in Australian English (and British English) are different from North American Englishes. The data used for this study was primarily a dietetic ...
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    • The Case of the Object in Early Estonian and Finnish Texts 

      Lees, Aet
      Published 2005-10-10
      The case of the object in Balto-Finnic languages alternates between accusative and partitive. In modern Finnish the accusative case is used more frequently than in Estonian. The present study looks at the usage in older ...
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    • Signalling Plurality in Learner English 

      McIlwain, Jillian; Peterson, Peter
      Published 2005-10-10
      Noun plurals in the conversational English of French and Polish adult learners of English have been analysed using descriptive and conceptual approaches. The data was collected over a period of eighteen months, during which ...
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    • Reflexive - Middle and Reciprocal - Middle Continua in Romanian 

      Calude, Andreea S
      Published 2005-10-10
      In Romanian, the middle marker se is employed to encode five distinct situation types: reflexive, reciprocal, (medio-)passive, inchoative and impersonal. The principal aim of the present research is to identify the ...
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    • Interpersonal Relationships in Japanese and Australian Women's Magazines: A Case Study 

      Kawashima, Kumiko
      Published 2005-10-10
      Women’s magazines have been a focus of research in various disciplines, and such research has made use of different methodologies as well as taking diverse approaches. This paper analyses texts selected from an Australian ...
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    • Exclamative Clauses: A Corpus-based Account 

      Collins, Peter
      Published 2005-10-10
      This paper aims to complement the accounts of exclamative clauses presented in both the large reference grammars of English (e.g. Quirk et al. 1985; Biber et al. 1999; Huddleston and Pullum 2002), and in the more ...
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    • Liquids: Laterals and Rhotics or Much More? 

      Ballard, Elaine; Starks, Donna
      Published 2005-10-10
      In phonology the classic division within the sonorant consonants is between nasal and liquid. Nasals by the nature of their articulation are easy to define and have generated a substantial literature (Cohn 1993, Piggott ...
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    • Frs. Herman Nekes and Ernest Worms' Dictionary of Australian Languages, Part III of 'Australian Languages' (1953) 

      McGregor, William B
      Published 2005-10-10
      Frs. Herman Nekes and Ernest Worms’ monumental Australian languages consists of five parts, of which three are dictionaries. These account for the bulk of the work, some 775 of 1067 pages, the remainder being about two-thirds ...
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    • Second Position Clitic Phenomena in North-Central Australia: Some Pragmatic Considerations 

      Mushin, Ilana
      Published 2005-10-10
      Second position phenomena in North-central Australia: some pragmatic considerations. This paper presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the discourse-pragmatics of second position clitic attachment in seven languages ...
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    • Processing Grammatical Functions of Mandarin Locative Structures 

      Charters, A. Helen
      Published 2005-10-10
      Pienemann (1989) argues that transfer of information from a Verb to its Subject, is more demanding than transfer within Nominal phrases because the former combines information from separate ‘iterations’ of conceptual ...
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    • Setting the Scene: A Comparative Study of the '-te aru' Construction and the Attributive Passive in Japanese 

      Jarkey, Nerida; Iwashita, Mami
      Published 2005-10-10
      Broadly speaking, the ‘-te aru’ construction and the ‘attributive passive’ construction in Japanese are both de-transitivized, stative constructions that serve to set the scene for the ongoing discourse. In many cases, the ...
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    • Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report 

      Arka, I Wayan
      Published 2005-10-21
      Changes in the ‘ecology of languages’ after the independence of Indonesia have resulted in changes in the social, cultural and economic settings. These changes in turn have affected the well-being of indigenous languages ...
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    • Emphatic Repetition in Spoken Arabic 

      Rieschild, Verna Robertson
      Published 2006-03-09
      This paper identifies and explains Arabic emphatic repetition in ethnographic interviews against the general backdrop of an understanding of non-pragmatically motivated repetition in Spoken Arabic. It also considers the ...
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