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The Domain of Phonological Processes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Challenges and Prospect of Maintaining Rongga: an Ethnographic Report
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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