Vol. 2 (2017): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

Articles

• Learnability and falsifiability of Construction Grammars

  Jonathan Dunn

  1:1–15

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• Semantic/pragmatic factors affecting the salience of transfer verb arguments

  Meghan Salomon, Gregory Ward

  2:1–12

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• Raising or control? Children's early get-passives

  Megan Gotowski

  3:1–10

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• Apparent ‘sufficiently similar’ degemination in Catalan is due to coalescence

  Eric Bakovic

  4:1–9

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• Linguistic discrimination on campus: Ratings of and attitudes toward student writing with African-American English

  Ho'omana Nathan Andrew Horton

  5:1–11

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• The role of scale structure in the interpretation of contrariety in no-DPs

  Rachel Szekely

  6:1–9

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• The distribution and variation of non-coordinated pronoun case forms in English

  Tyler Jacob Bui Lemon

  7:1–15

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• Distal demonstratives licensed by culturally-familiar scenarios

  Ryan Doran, Gregory Ward

  8:1–6

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• Passivization possibilities in double-accusative constructions

  Vera Lee-Schoenfeld, Gabriele Diewald

  9:1–14

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• The distribution of advanced tongue root harmony and interior vowels in the Macro-Sudan Belt

  Nicholas Revett Rolle, Matthew Faytak, Florian Lionnet

  10:1–15

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• Perception of Welsh vowel contrasts by Welsh-Spanish bilinguals in Argentina

  Elise Adrienne Bell

  11:1–9

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• Proportional implies relative: A typological universal

  Elizabeth Coppock, Elizabeth Bogal-Allbritten, Golsa Nouri-Hosseini, Saskia Stiefeling

  12:1–15

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• 'Grandmas' in debate: A first-person story told in Taiwan's presidential debate as a rhetorical device and public reactions to its credibility

  Ping-Hsuan Wang

  13:1–15

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• Bilingualism and bimodal code-blending among deaf ASL-English bilinguals

  Marjorie Herbert, Acrisio Pires

  14:1–15

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• Island constraints are not the result of sentence processing

  Helen Goodluck, Frank Tsiwah, Kofi Saah

  15:1–5

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• Uyghur -ip as a verb linker in multiple constructions

  Alexander Sugar

  16:1–14

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• A pilot acoustic study of Modern Persian vowels in colloquial speech

  Robin Aronow, Brian D. McHugh, Tessa Molnar

  17:1–7

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• Clause-final particles and focus in Eastern Cham

  Kenneth Baclawski Jr.

  18:1–12

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• A unified approach to Tianjin trisyllabic tone sandhi: Metrical conditions and tonal complexity

  Xiaomei Wang, Yen-Hwei Lin

  19:1–13

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• Excrescent stops in American English

  Cara Feldscher, Karthik Durvasula

  20:1–15

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• Prosody and branching direction of phrasal compounds

  Hisao Tokizaki

  21:1–10

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• Variation in the pronunciation/silence of the prepositions in locative determiners

  Anna Maria Di Sciullo

  22:1–15

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• Kashaya [asp] assimilation and dissimilation by correspondence

  Eugene Buckley

  23:1–11

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• Word-final velar place assimilation in English

  Lisa Lipani

  24:1–15

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• Change of state in Kinyarwanda: A study in root meaning

  Kyle Jerro

  25:1–15

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• English comparatives as degree-phrase relative clauses

  Richard Thomas McCoy

  26:1–7

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• Reconstructing sociolinguistic variation

  Jessica Kantarovich, Lenore A. Grenoble

  27:1–15

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• Stages of language shift in twentieth-century Inner Mongolia

  Sarala Puthuval

  28:1–14

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• Overriding default interpretations through prosody: Depictive predicates in Brazilian Portuguese

  Natália Brambatti Guzzo, Heather Goad

  29:1–15

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• The small matter of the Afrikaans diminutive

  Andrew Lamont

  30:1–15

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• The emergence of Brazilian Portuguese: Earlier evidence for the development of a partial null subject grammar

  Humberto Borges, Acrisio Pires

  31:1–15

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• Ergative case assignment in Hindi-Urdu: Evidence from light verb compounds

  Yash Sinha

  32:1–14

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• Syllable weight and duration: A rhyme/intervals comparison

  Anya Lunden

  33:1–12

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• Building superlatives from property concept expressions

  Mythili Menon

  34:1–9

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• How automatic is convergence? Evidence from working memory

  Jevon Heath

  35:1–10

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• Unaccusativity and the syntax of imperatives in East Circassian

  Ksenia Ershova

  36:1–14

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• The union of conjunction and disjunction: The case of and/or

  Brent Woo

  37:1–9

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• Two types of states: A cross-linguistic study of change-of-state verb roots

  John Beavers, Michael Everdell, Kyle Jerro, Henri Kauhanen, Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Elise LeBovidge, Stephen Nichols

  38:1–15

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• At-issueness ≠ anaphoric availability

  Todd Snider

  39:1–15

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• Migration, local identity and change in Tianjin tone sandhi

  Xiaomei Wang

  40:1–15

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• Who has more? The influence of linguistic form on quantity judgments

  Gregory Scontras, Kathryn Davidson, Amy Rose Deal, Sarah E. Murray

  41:1–15

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• Minangkabau -i: A locative, transitivizing, iterative, adversative suffix

  Catherine R Fortin, Daniel Brodkin

  42:1–12

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• Toponyms: Neglected wallflower or pot of plenty

  Ronald P Schaefer

  43:1–8

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• The influence of second language vowels on foreign language vowel perception

  Anna Balas

  44:1–5

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• What is in the neighborhood of a tonal syllable? Evidence from auditory lexical decision in Mandarin Chinese

  Yao Yao, Bhamini Sharma

  45:1–14

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• How speakers select synthetic and analytic forms of English comparatives: An experimental study

  Naomi Enzinna

  46:1–14

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• Georgian stem formants and nominalization

  Gallagher Flinn

  47:1–13

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• Distributional learning on Mechanical Turk and effects of attentional shifts

  Emily Moeng

  48:1–15

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• Cumulative readings beyond nominals

  Patrick D. Elliott, Andreea Cristina Nicolae

  49:1–11

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• A preliminary investigation of the formation of constituent questions in Karata (Nakh-Daghestanian)

  Jeremy Pasquereau, Rashidat Khalidova

  50:1–11

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• Speakers' rapidly-updated expectations influence prosodic realization of information structure

  Iris Chuoying Ouyang, Sasha Spala, Elsi Kaiser

  51:1–10

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• Scalar implicature in Chitonga-speaking children

  Jodi Reich, Kelly Nedwick, Teodora Niculae-Caxi, Yang Liu, Elena L. Grigorenko

  52:1–7

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• P'urhepecha hyperraising to object: An argument for purely altruistic movement

  Erik Zyman

  53:1–15

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