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

• Table of Contents and Preface

  BLS Editors

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Articles

• Indirect Grammatical Pressure Driving Language Change

  Mark D. Arnold

  1-12

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• Why children omit function morphemes: Metric vs. syntactic structure

  Misha Becker

  13-23

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• Person Reference and References to People in Brazilian Sign Language

  Norine Berenz

  24-43

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• The Tough Construction is neither Extraction nor Control

  Yoon-Suk Chung

  44-56

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• Reduced Relatives: Lexical Constraint-Based Analysis

  Hana Filip

  57-68

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• The Discontinuous Intonation Contour: A Case for Rethinking Intonation Contour/Intonation Phrase Isomorphy

  Phil Gaines

  69-80

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• The Convergence of 'Similarities' and Making the Best of Probabilistic Evidence

  Gwang-Yoon Goh

  81-92

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• The Phonetics and Phonology of Non-modal Vowels: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

  Matthew Gordon

  93-105

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• Location and Direction in Waikurúan Languages

  Verónica Grondona

  106-116

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• Linguistic Systems and Social Models: A Case Study from Japanese

  Yoko Hasegawa

  117-128

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• Phonetic Assessment of Tone Spreading

  Sung-A Kim

  129-138

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• Motivating Morpho-Syntactic Changes in Turkic Subordinations

  Jaklin Kornfilt

  139-149

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• The Case of the Noun Phrase in the Finnish Adpositional Phrase: A Discourse-pragmatic Account

  Ritva Laury

  150-160

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• Anar 'Go', Donar 'Give', and Posar 'Put': Shift Verbs in Catalan

  Roser Morante, Glória Vásquez

  161-172

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• Linguistics and 'The Linguistic Turn': Language, Reality, and Knowledge

  Eve Ng

  173-183

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• On Mohawk Ghost Vowels: Audibility vs. Visibility

  Gra!yna Rowicka

  184-194

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• A New Look at Japanese Conversational Styles: (In-)Direct Speech and Turn Management

  Shie Sato, Shigeko Okamoto

  195-206

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• Discourse-Based Solutions to Quantitative Problems in Sociolinguistics: The Case of Men's and Women's Speech in an Indo-Guyanese Village

  Jack Sidnell

  207-218

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• How give and receive Provide Structure for More Abstract Notions: The Case of Benefactives, Adversatives, Causatives, and Passives

  Tomoko Yamashita Smith

  219-231

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• Evidence for the Distinction between Resultative and Consequential Serial Verbs

  Osamuyimen Thompson Stewart

  232-243

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• Telescope Anaphora

  Janine Toole

  244-255

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• The Natural Classes of Two-Handed Signs

  Janine Toole, Linda Uyechi

  256-267

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• Bueno: A Spanish Interactive Discourse Marker

  Catherine Travis

  268-279

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• A Theory of Agreement and Disagreement

  Stephen Wechsler, Larisa Zlatić

  280-291

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• Lexical and Grammatical Universals as a Key to Conceptual Structures

  Anna Wierzbicka

  292-307

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• Testing opposing phonetic structural principles: polarization and gestural economy

  Victoria B. Anderson

  309-319

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• Perceptual Confusions and Phonological Change: How Confused is the Listener?

  Patrice Speeter Beddor, Rena Arens Krakow

  320-334

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• Functional Bases of Phonological Universals: A Connectionist Approach

  Marc F. Joanisse, Mark S. Seidenberg

  335-345

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• Perception in Optimality Theory: The Frugality of the Base

  Paul Lassettre, Patricia Donegan

  346-355

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• Stress Effects on CV Coarticulation and their Implications for Phonology

  Joo-Kyeong Lee

  356-366

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• Why Make Life Hard? Resolutions to Problems of Rare and Difficult Sound Types

  Ian Maddieson

  367-380

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• Glottalized sonorants: A phonetic universal?

  Madelaine C. Plauche, Rosemary Beam De Aconza, Rungpat Roengpitya, William F. Weigel

  381-390

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• Vowel Height: Reconsidering Distinctive Features

  Don Salting

  391-402

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• Phonological Universals: Trilling, Voicing, and Frication

  Maria-Josep Solé

  403-416

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