LACUS Forum 29 (2002) articles

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LACUS Forum 29 was published in 2003

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I. Featured Lectures

Presidential Address: The Mystery of Translation
Adam Makkai
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: Consonant Strength Innovations Across the Spanish-Speaking World: Evidence and Implications for a Usage-Based Model of Phonology
Timothy L. Face
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: How CALL Can Help Language Revitalisation: The Case of Nawat
Monica Ward

II. Applying Linguistics to the Real World

A Human Linguistic Analysis of a Newspaper Headline
Lara Burazer
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Commendation: Lookup Methods for Chinese Characters: Electronic versus Paper Media
David Cahill
A Human Linguistics View of ‘Metaphorical Language’
Douglas W. Coleman
Letters, Numbers, and the Dating of Ogam
Toby D. Griffen
The Holy Qur’ans: A Corpus Comparison of Three English Versions
Carolyn G. Hartnett
Repetition in News Analysis Discussions as a Tool of Image Projection
Stacy Krainz
Thought Disorders in Schizophrenia
David Maurier & Sydney Lamb
The Phonology of Ancient Written Languages and that of their Reconstructed Prehistoric Sources
Saul Levin
Complementarity: Verb Types and Discourse Types in Biblical Hebrew
Robert E. Longacre
Listening Comprehension, Laws, and Video
Alan K. Melby
Social Stratification of [F?fti] in Toledo Department Stores
Janelle Metzger
Zero Anaphora and Referential Salience in Chinese Discourse
Yili Shi
Linguistic Lessons from the War on Terrorism
Sarah Tsiang
Dialogue in Monologue: Japanese Storytelling Art
Noriko Watanabe

III. Understanding Linguistics Through the Real World

Iterative and Lexical Densities within Genres
Michael Cummings
Politeness in Imperatives: Grammatical Encoding and Meaning from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Inga B. Dolinina
A Strategy of Persuasion in Chinese Advertising: English-Based Identity Construction
Liwei Gao
The Place of Writing in the Glossematic/Stratificational Model
Earl M. Herrick
Linguistic Traits of the New Guinea Pidgin, Tok Pisin, from the Perspective of Error-Control Coding
John T. Hogan
The Effects of Literacy on Lexicality
Aya Katz
Acoustic Realization of Prosodic Types: Constructing Average Syllables
Masahiko Komatsu & Takayuki Arai
Eddies in Language and Biology
Robert Orr
Toward Linguistically Plausible Language Modelling in Real-World Applications
Gerald Penn
Modal and Argumentative Features of Parliamentary Debates on International Terrorism: A Case Study
Vladimir Lazarev & Lioudmila Pravikova
Distributional Properties of German Verbs with Inseparable Prefixes: Implications for Morphological Processing
Matthias K. Schirmeier
Temporal Comparison of Word Boundary Consonants in French: The Speaker-Specificity Issue
Manuel Sinor
The Grammar of English Reflexives: A New View
Nancy Stern
Unpacking Polish Narrative
William J. Sullivan & David R. Bogdan
The Grammaticalization and Lexicalization of the Pragmatic Marker G?i Wo in Mandarin
June C.C. Sun
Clustering of Speech Errors
Jason Wells-Jensen & Sheri Wells-Jensen
Advantages of Parallel Text Elicitation: The Parallel Impromptu Narrations Corpus
Sheri Wells-Jensen
Cognitive Strategies in Relative Clause Processing in English and Chinese
Hui Yin
A Précis of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology
Victor H. Yngve


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