20.784, Books: Morphology/Phonetics: Mahanta - Psycholing/Cog Science: van Vliet

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Subject: 20.784, Books: Morphology/Phonetics: Mahanta - Psycholing/Cog Science: van Vliet

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1)
Date: 07-Mar-2009
From: Parcival von Schmid < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Directionality and locality: Mahanta

2)
Date: 07-Mar-2009
From: Parcival von Schmid < lot at uu.nl >
Subject: Proper Nouns and Pronouns: van Vliet

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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:16:04
From: Parcival von Schmid [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Directionality and locality: Mahanta

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Title: Directionality and locality 
Subtitle: With special reference to vowel harmony with special reference to vowel
harmony

Series Title: LOT Dissertations Series 173  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Shakuntala Mahanta

Paperback: ISBN:  9789078328476 Pages: 294 Price: Europe EURO 25.02

Abstract:

In this dissertation it is argued that regressive harmony in some languages
is exclusively unidirectional and independent of morphological
restrictions. Primarily focussing on Assamese (with original research and
data from the language), regressive harmony is shown to be the result of a
precedence relation, where 'marked' sequences of vowels are prohibited. It
is shown that regressive [ATR] harmony in Assamese, Pulaar and Karajá can
be analysed with the aid of a higher, though violable constraint
*[-ATR][+ATR]. Non-iterative regressive harmony in Bengali and Tripura
Bengali is also shown to require an analysis similar to that of Assamese,
but the restricted domain of harmony require the constraint is
*[-ATR][+high +ATR].

It is shown that locality, another important factor in harmony is apparent
from the blocking of harmony by a nasal segment only in the immediate
vicinity of the triggering segments /i/ and /u/. Locality is also evident
in exceptional cases of vowel harmony. This dissertation shows that
exclusively leftward vowel harmony in languages is inherently a directional
process. Furthermore, there are various locality requirements in an
apparently long-distance process like vowel harmony and these have been
explored in considerable detail in this dissertation. This dissertation is
of relevance to theoretical phonologists, phoneticians as well as
researchers interested in South Asian linguistics. 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Assamese (asm)
                     Bengali (ben)
                     Pulaar (fuc)
                     Karajá (kpj)

Written In: English  (eng)

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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:16:17
From: Parcival von Schmid [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Proper Nouns and Pronouns: van Vliet

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Title: Proper Nouns and Pronouns 
Subtitle: The production of referential expressions in narrative discourse 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series 175  

Publication Year: 2008 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Sarah van Vliet

Paperback: ISBN:  9789078328490 Pages: 202 Price: Europe EURO 20.92

Abstract:

In consecutive references to narrative characters, narrators usually
alternate between the use of proper nouns and pronouns. This study aims to
provide a comprehensive and cognitively plausible account of reference
maintenance in online narrative discourse production.
The corpus research reported in this study offers an analysis of the
grammatical and discourse factors affecting referential choice in narrative
discourse production. The analysis is based on a large corpus of written
narratives, elicited through visual stimuli (a comic). The results of the
quantitative analyses indicate that in the maintenance of reference to
narrative characters, the choice between proper nouns and pronouns is
guided by two mechanisms: an independent distance-based alternation of
proper nouns and pronouns, and the repetition of proper nouns after
discourse-structural boundaries. These linear and hierarchical factors can
be assumed to
exert their influence through the fluctuation of (assumed) referent
salience. The relation between context factors and referential form stems
from the salience characteristics inherent in the nominal categories proper
noun and pronoun, which accounts for reference maintenance at both the
clause and the discourse level.

Proper Nouns and Pronouns should be of interest to researchers working in
the fields of text linguistics, cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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