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Download full textNewton, David E. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
A study investigated the nature of clear and dark sounds (resonance) in English, focusing on the features associated with the lateral consonant /l/. Subjects were three male undergraduate students and one male university faculty member, all native speakers of different English varieties. Each subject read aloud 27 short phrases or sentences. Using…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Articulation (Speech), Consonants, English
Tsoulas, George – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An analysis of the structure and functioning of Modern Greek gerundival constructions is presented. First, it is argued that there are clear differences between gerunds and participles. Issues concerning the temporal interpretation of gerunds are considered, and an account is given that postulates the existence of a covert temporal operator like…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Greek
Tagliamonte, Sali – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
An analysis of perfect verb forms in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) looks at the distribution of forms by semantic function and co-occurrence patterns in Samana English and ex-slave recordings. Results suggest that despite the overall rarity of this category in the general realm of past time, the most frequent forms used to mark it…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, English
