LACUS Forum 32 (2005) articles

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LACUS Forum 32 was published in 2006

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I. Featured Lectures

Inaugural Lecture: General Network Theory
Réka Albert
Presidential Address: Language and Fragmentation: The Case of Celtic Britain
Toby D. Griffen
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: The English Simultaneity Network: The Case of As and While-Clauses
Cristiano Broccias
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: Switch-Reference in Hidatsa: Past and Present
John P. Boyle

II. Networks and Neurolingustics

Automating the Importation of Lexical Information into a Relational Network
Ian C. Chow
A Cognitive Approach to Social Networks
Lynn Clark
Syntactic and Semantic Patterns of Pedantic Speech in Asperger’s Syndrome
Jessica De Villiers
The Loss of French in Antebellum Louisiana: A Social Network Perspective
Connie Eble
The Effect of Neurodiversity on the Transmission of Information through Language
Aya Katz
Encoding Syntax in Rhythmic Neural Networks
Donald Loritz
Pre-Doctoral Commendation: A Relational Network Perspective of Diachronic Linguistics: A Case Study of the French Genitive
Christina Marshall
Language Databases, Statistics and Social Networks
Alan K. Melby, Paul J. Fields & Marc Carmen
Studies of Language Impairment: Pinker’s Claims for Modularity
Jodi Tommerdahl

III. Linguistics as Science

Human Linguistics and Referring in the Real World
Lara Burazer
A Formal Integrated View of Speech, Gesture, Gaze and its Implications for Learning
Douglas W. Coleman
Is Evidence-Based Linguistics the Solution? Is Voodoo Linguistics the Problem?
Alexander Gross
A Computerized, Level-By-Level Model of Transduction
Earl M. Herrick
Being Realistic, Being Scientific
Sydney Lamb
Eme-Ware: From Emic Analysis to Practical Input Systems
Daniel S. Mailman
Defining the Limits of ‘Hard Science’ Linguistics
Robert Orr
An Artifact of the Description: The Good and Bad of an OT Approach
William J. Sullivan
Austin and Same-Sex Marriage
Bernard Sypniewski
Focus or Scope of Pitch Accent: Speaker versus Hearers
Lucas Van Buuren
Formalizing the Observer in Hard-Science Linguistics
Victor H. Yngve

IV. Lexicon, Grammar and Discourse

The Evolution of Clitic Systems: A Lexicalization Explanation
David C. Bennett
Measuring Lexical Distributions Across Theme and Rheme
Michael Cummings
The English Gerund-Participle in Cognitive Grammar
Patrick J. Duffley
The Verb Keep in Lexical Semantics: A Comparative Study
Rennie Gonsalves
Clause Combining in English Narrative Discourse
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Towards a Single-Mechanism Account of Frequency Effects
Vsevolod Kapatsinski
The Friendship of Thomas More and Erasmus
Saul Levin
On the Psycho-Sociological Reality of Discourse Templates
Robert E. Longacre
Googling Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Effect on Current English
Peter A. Reich
Time-Linear Analysis and Linguistic Explanation
Alexandre Sévigny
The Demonstrative Determiner Nei and Register Variation: A Comparison of Conversations and News Broadcasts in Chinese
Yili Shi
The Acquisition of English by a Nigerian Pre-Schooler
Tajudeen Y. Surakat


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