BLS 24: General Session and Parasession on Phonetics and Phonological Universals

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Table of Contents and Preface
BLS Editors
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Articles

Indirect Grammatical Pressure Driving Language Change
Mark D. Arnold
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1-12
Why children omit function morphemes: Metric vs. syntactic structure
Misha Becker
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13-23
Person Reference and References to People in Brazilian Sign Language
Norine Berenz
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24-43
The Tough Construction is neither Extraction nor Control
Yoon-Suk Chung
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44-56
Reduced Relatives: Lexical Constraint-Based Analysis
Hana Filip
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57-68
The Discontinuous Intonation Contour: A Case for Rethinking Intonation Contour/Intonation Phrase Isomorphy
Phil Gaines
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69-80
The Convergence of ‘Similarities’ and Making the Best of Probabilistic Evidence
Gwang-Yoon Goh
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81-92
The Phonetics and Phonology of Non-modal Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Matthew Gordon
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93-105
Location and Direction in Waikurúan Languages
Verónica Grondona
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106-116
Linguistic Systems and Social Models: A Case Study from Japanese
Yoko Hasegawa
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117-128
Phonetic Assessment of Tone Spreading
Sung-A Kim
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129-138
Motivating Morpho-Syntactic Changes in Turkic Subordinations
Jaklin Kornfilt
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139-149
The Case of the Noun Phrase in the Finnish Adpositional Phrase: A Discourse-pragmatic Account
Ritva Laury
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150-160
Anar ‘Go’, Donar ‘Give’, and Posar ‘put’: Shift Verbs in Catalan
Roser Morante, Glòria Vásquez
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161-172
Linguistics and ‘The Linguistic Turn’: Language, Reality, and Knowledge
Eve Ng
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173-183
On Mohawk Ghost Vowels: Audibility vs. Visibility
Gra!yna Rowicka
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184-194
A New Look at Japanese Conversational Styles: (In-)Direct Speech and Turn Management
Shie Sato, Shigeko Okamoto
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195-206
Discourse-Based Solutions to Quantitative Problems in Sociolinguistics: The Case of Men’s and Women’s Speech in an Indo-Guyanese Village
Jack Sidnell
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207-218
How ‘give’ and ‘receive’ Provide Structure for More Abstract Notions: The Case of Benefactives, Adversatives, Causatives, and Passives
Tomoko Yamashita Smith
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219-231
Evidence for the Distinction between Resultative and Consequential Serial Verbs
Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart
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232-243
Telescope Anaphora
Janine Toole
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244-255
The Natural Classes of Two-Handed Signs
Janine Toole, Linda Uyechi
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256-267
Bueno: A Spanish Interactive Discourse Marker
Catherine Travis
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268-279
A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement
Stephen Wechsler, Larisa Zlati!
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280-291
Lexical and Grammatical Universals as a Key to Conceptual Structures
Anna Wierzbicka
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292-307
Testing opposing phonetic structural principles: polarization and gestural economy
Victoria B. Anderson
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309-319
Perceptual Confusions and Phonological Change: How Confused is the Listener?
Patrice Speeter Beddor, Rena Arens Krakow
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320-334
Functional Bases of Phonological Universals: A Connectionist Approach
Marc F. Joanisse, Mark S. Seidenberg
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335-345
Perception in Optimality Theory: The Frugality of the Base
Paul Lassettre, Patricia Donegan
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346-355
Stress Effects on CV Coarticulation and their Implications for Phonology
Joo-Kyeong Lee
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356-366
Why Make Life Hard? Resolutions to Problems of Rare and Difficult Sound Types
Ian Maddieson
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367-380
Glottalized sonorants: A phonetic universal?
Madelaine C. Plauche, Rosemary Beam De Aconza, Rungpat Roengpitya, William F. Weigel
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381-390
Vowel Height: Reconsidering Distinctive Features
Don Salting
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391-402
Phonological Universals: Trilling, Voicing, and Frication
Maria-Josep Solé
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403-416