Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society 2004: Recent submissions
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Distinguishing Prosodic Word and Phonological Word in Warlpiri: Prosodic Constituency in Morphologically Complex Words
Published 2005-10-10Observations 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Acoustic Analysis of Maori: Historical Data
Published 2005-10-10We 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Second Position Clitic Phenomena in North-Central Australia: Some Pragmatic Considerations
Published 2005-10-10Second 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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
Interpersonal Relationships in Japanese and Australian Women's Magazines: A Case Study
Published 2005-10-10Women’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 ...Open AccessConference paper -
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