Browsing UTA Working Papers in Linguistics 1 (1994) - DO NOT EDIT by Title
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Anaphora, pragmatics and style in German
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: German uses two sets of anaphoric pronouns, the personal pronoun set (PP) er, sie, es and the demonstrative pronoun set (DP) der, die, das. The latter set has been ... -
Diphthongization and underspecification in Kɔnni
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The problems of analyzing vowels of Gur languages are well-known to those who work among them. The bulk of the difficulty in Kɔnni comes in the analysis of the mid ... -
Discourse-based evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The case-marking systems of Philippine languages have been difficult to classify as either nominative-accusative (NOM-ACC) or ergative-absolutive (ERG-ABS). The ... -
Finding the "two" in diglossia
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sociolinguists generally agree that a diglossic situation is one in which a single speech community employs two or more varieties of language, a H(igh) variety and ... -
Lexical borrowing, creolization and basic vocabulary
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper is concerned with two sets of questions, one from semantics and cognitive linguistics, one from diachronic linguistics and in particular creole studies. ... -
Phonetic emphasis in Tamil
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The present paper is based on a study conducted following Balasubramanian’s (1981) method: a native speaker was asked to emphasize a given item in a sentence and ... -
Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The objective of the present study is to examine the acquisition of pronunciation by 66 undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of an intermediate Spanish ... -
Primary stress assignment in Brazilian Portuguese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Brazilians display a great interest in the prosody of their own language. Much classroom time is spent counting syllables, enumerating detailed rules for stress ... -
Subjectless sentences in English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ... -
The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ... -
The variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese: a case study
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: European varieties of Portuguese exhibit a process whereby unstressed vowels, particularly schwa, optionally undergo elision: an item such as idade ‘idea’ can be ...