December 2025 - 19 articles
This article presents ongoing work on the aspectual properties of verb predicates, in particular, the classes of activities and accomplishments. Herein, we focus on incremental theme predicates, starting with consumption verbs as one of the represent...
This article examines augmented plurals in Russian, mostly focusing on those in -ĭj- (e.g., pero/perʲja ‘feather.sg/pl’). The accentual behavior of -ĭj-plurals is sensitive to animacy: while inanimates show stem-final stres...
The family serves as a critical domain for ethnic minority children to acquire their ethnic language. It plays a vital role in fostering multilingual competence and sustaining language diversity. Therefore, the family language planning (FLP) of ethni...
The so-called canonical clause, consisting of case-marked NPs and a final finite verb, has played a central role in discussions of Japanese for the past several decades. The current study explores the nature of such clauses in everyday Japanese conve...
Written language is a multimodal system that integrates visual, phonological, and semantic information. This study examines whether orthographic visual distinctiveness—the degree to which word forms differ visually—acts as a structural co...
This paper presents a recasting of key aspects of dynamic syntax (DS) in a theory of types with records (TTR), concentrating on the incremental processing of speech events as they unfold and viewed in terms of classifying these events in terms of gra...
In this article, I underscore the value of nuanced, speaker-focused approaches to dialect contact, which both complement and extend community-based perspectives. I pursue this goal through two main strategies. First, I use a mixed-methods approach th...
The Converter/Distributor (C/D) model, as proposed by Fujimura is theoretically grounded on articulatory observations of X-ray microbeam (XRMB) data that show that utterance syllable prominence patterns “dictate” the size, timing and phra...
This study focuses on vowel variation in Mainstream Australian English, describing F1/F2 vowel spaces and voice quality produced by speakers from the capital, Hobart, of the island state of Tasmania. Vowels are analysed by comparing F1/F2 vowel space...
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is characterized by atypical timing between segments, leading to prosodic disruption at the lexical level. This study tested whether prosodic impairment in CAS extends to the intonational level by examining declinati...
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