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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:26:22
From: Zoltán Páll [zoltan.pall at akademiai.hu]
Subject: Acta Linguistica Hungarica Vol.62, No.1 (2015)

 
Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
			http://www.akademiai.com/ 
			
Journal Title:  Acta Linguistica Hungarica 
Volume Number:  62 
Issue Number:  1 
Issue Date:  2015 


Main Text:  

Jian, Hua-Li
Prosodic challenges faced by English speakers reading Mandarin 
10.1556/Aling.62.2015.1.2
pp. 35-62. 

Abstract: This study compares the prosodic characteristics of L2-Mandarin as
spoken by L1-English speakers using L1-Mandarin utterances. The acoustic
correlates examined include individual tonal realizations, interactions of
tones in sequence, durational features and intensity envelopes. L2-Mandarin
users realize the contour tones RISE and FALL with both rising and falling
pitch, and produce the second tone of disyllabic words with more varied pitch.
L2-users employ larger vowel durations, syllable durations and larger
variation over vowel intervals in sequential pairs than L1-Mandarin users.
Both user groups show similar intensity envelopes. Implications of this study
include tailoring language training programs that counterbalance L1
influences.

Cser, András
The nature of phonological conditioning in Latin inflectional allomorphy 
10.1556/Aling.62.2015.1.1
pp. 1-34. 

Abstract: This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of the inflectional
morphology of Latin in terms of the patterns of allomorphy and the
environments governing the distribution of allomorphs. It is demonstrated that
all the attested allomorphic alternations can be described as functions of a
vocalic scale, practically the sonority scale of vowels plus the
undifferentiated class of consonants as the least sonorous extreme. The
distribution of allomorphs along the vocalic scale crucially displays the
property of contiguity, i.e., the subsections of the scale that trigger one
particular allomorph are uninterrupted.

Ursini, Francesco-Alessio: On the syntax and semantics of Italian spatial Ps 
10.1556/Aling.62.2015.1.3
pp. 63-110 

Abstract: This paper offers a unified approach to Italian spatial
prepositions, such as di fronte a ‘in front of’, verso ‘towards’, in ‘in’,
dietro a ‘behind’, and nel mezzo di ‘in the middle of’. Three assumptions play
a key role. First, Italian spatial prepositions can differ sensibly in their
morphological structure, but share the same syntactic properties. Second,
their sentential distribution is in part context-sensitive, thus based on the
categories with which they combine. Third, their semantic contribution is
“layered”, in the sense that it includes the meaning dimensions of both
aspectual boundedness and specificity. The main result is a generalised theory
on the structure and semantic interpretation of these prepositions.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Morphology
                     Phonology
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)
                     Italian (ita)
                     Latin (lat)



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