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Direct linkMartin, Andrew – Language, 2011
I present evidence from Navajo and English that weaker, gradient versions of morpheme-internal phonotactic constraints, such as the ban on geminate consonants in English, hold even across prosodic word boundaries. I argue that these lexical biases are the result of a MAXIMUM ENTROPY phonotactic learning algorithm that maximizes the probability of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Navajo, Morphemes, Language Research
Peer reviewedClark, Herbert H.; Gerrig, Richard J. – Language, 1990
Discusses a theory that quotations are demonstrations that are component parts of language use. Demonstrations are described as unlike descriptions in two main ways: they are serious rather than nonserious, and they depict rather than describe their referents. (69 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language
Peer reviewedAbbott, Barbara – Language, 1997
Discusses Prince's (1992) reanalysis of the information status of noun phrases (NPs) into two cross-cutting distinctions, one between NPs denoting entities that are new or old with respect to the discourse and another between NPs denoting entities that, in the speaker's estimation, are new or old with respect to the addressee. (Nine references)…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Nouns
