Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004: Recent submissions
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Liquids: Laterals and Rhotics or Much More?
Published 2005-10-10In 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Exclamative Clauses: A Corpus-based Account
Published 2005-10-10This 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Signalling Plurality in Learner English
Published 2005-10-10Noun 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Domain of Phonological Processes
Published 2005-10-10In 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
New and Traditional Values in Contemporary Russian: Natural Semantic Metalanguage in Cross-Cultural Semantics
Published 2005-10-10Changes 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 ...Open AccessConference paper