Publications

Roslyn Burns has published a new article in Glossa

Burns’ article investigates the relationshibp between loanword adaptation and phonological borrowing in an enclave of the Mexican Plautdietsch community Texas. Burns shows that the novel Mexican Spanish pattern of loanword adaptation and phonological borrowing entered the community as a result of the unique structure of phonological representation associated with advanced bilingualism. In this article, Burns proposes an expansion of models of loanword adaptation to account for outcomes involving restructuring of heritage languages.

Jason Shaw publishes paper in Language and Linguistics Compass

Shaw’s article looks at micro-prosody as the study of duration and timing of speech events. Shaw presents a frameowrk to illustrate patterns of micro-prosody across languages. The framework presented in this paper is also intened to offer effective tools for phonetic documentation, and considers how micro-prosody relates to other levels of phonoloigcal structure and types of data that can infer aspects of micro-prosody. The article can be accessed at the link below. 

PhD Alum Matt Tyler publishes paper in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory

Yale Linguistics alumnus, Matt Tyler, has recently published an article titled “Serial verb constructions and the syntax-prosody interface” in Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Matt’s paper focuses on serial verb constructions in Degema arguing for a partly-unified postsyntactic module, wherein mrophology and prosody are built in parallel. 

The article can be viewed at the link below.

Milena Šereikaitė publishes in Syntax

Milena Šereikaitė has recently published in the journal Syntax. Milena’s article titled, “Impersonals, passives and impersonal pronouns: Lessons from Lithuanian”, focuses on properties of VoiceP and impersonal pronouns through contrasting two Lithuanian constructions: the -mal-ta impersonal and the canonical passive. 

The article can be viewed through the link below.

Stephen Anderson publishes second edition of Phonology in the Twentieth Century

Language Science Press has published a second edition of Emeritus Professor Steve Anderson’s celebrated monograph Phonology in the Twentieth Century (U Chicago Press 1985) — an important history of the development of phonological thinking over the course of the last century which taxonomises and contextualises the contributions of important theorists and tensions between “representational” and “rule-based” approaches to the sound structures of human language.

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