LACUS Forum 33 (2006) articles

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LACUS Forum 33 was published in 2007

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I. Featured Lectures

Inaugural Lecture: Why Can’t You Understand Your Own Language?
Dennis R. Preston
Presidential Address: Saint Jerome’s Children: An Adventure in Assisted Inverse Translation
Lois M. Stanford
Invited Lecture: A Linguistic Fossil: Positive Any More in the Golden Horseshoe
J.K. Chambers
Presidents’ Post-Doctoral Prize: Cross-Linguistic Variability of Prosodic Characteristics: A Hard-Science Approach
Masahiko Komatsu
Presidents’ Pre-Doctoral Prize: Floating Quantifier Placement: A Prosodic Account
Lisa Rochman

II. Variation

An Exemplar-Based Approach to Variable Input Processing
Amanda Boomershine
Death-Defining Personifications: The Grim Reaper vs. La Grande Faucheuse
Lorin Card & Freeda Wilson
Consonant-Rhotic Clusters in Southwestern Ontario French: A Study of Rhotic Variation and Schwa Epenthesis
Ivan Chow & François Poiré
Cognitive Sociolinguistics: A Viable Approach to Variation in Linguistic Theory
Lynn Clark
Required Variability in Input
Douglas W. Coleman
Variability in Trubetzkoy’s Classification of Phonological Oppositions
B. Elan Dresher
Verbal Complement Variability after the Preposition To
Patrick J. Duffley
How to Formalize Variation: Stochastic OT Models and /S/ Deletion in Spanish
Keelan Evanini
The Variability of Referring Expressions: An Alternative Perspective on the Noun Phrase in English
Lise Fontaine
Phonetic Vowel Dispersion as a Sociolinguistic Variable: Evidence from North American English
Kevin Heffernan
Discourse Operations and Ranking in Variable Forms of Participant Reference
Shin Ja J. Hwang
Intonational Variability in French
Svetlana Kaminskaïa
Force Dynamics as a Variational Factor: A Case in Korean
Hyun Jung Koo
Ms. as a Courtesy Title: Variation Through Time and Space
Donna L. Lillian
Variations in Food Names
Alan K. Melby & Alec Westwood
Lexical Variation Across Asturias and the ‘Domino Astur’
Enrique Pato & David Heap
Colloquial Variation and Its Implications in Grammaticalization Theory
Seongha Rhee

III. Theory and Description

Verbal Prefixation in Slavic: Z-Prefixed Perfectives in Polish
Barbara Bacz
Quantificational Properties of Slavic Verbal Prefixes
Inga B. Dolinina
Investigating the Semantics-Semiotics Interface Through Textual Analysis
Rennie Gonsalves
Scandals in Translation Quality Assessment
Harry J. Huang
Discourse Event-Representation with an Untensed Bi-Clausal Construction
Kuniyoshi Ishikawa
Feelings in Sidaama
Kazuhiro Kawachi
The Nasal Appendix in Canadian French
Stephanie Kelly, François Poiré & Darcie Williams
Prescriptivism Revisited
Michael D. Kliffer
Cognitive Constraints on the Use of Tense Forms in Japanese Narratives
Shoko Kojima
The Structure of Information in Expository Discourse
Robert E. Longacre
Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience: Friends, Foes, or Distant Acquaintances?
Alexandre Sévigny & Karin R. Humphreys
Explanation and Prediction in Phonology
Jean-François Smith
Personal Pronouns, Interpretants, and Networks
William C. Spruiell
An Integrated Geometric Description of Polish Aspect
William J. Sullivan & David R. Bogdan
Domain Confusion
Bernard Sypniewski
Further Rewards from Formalizing the Observer
Victor H. Yngve & Lara Burazer

IV. History and Behavior

Old English Clause Grammar and the Ideational Metafunction
Michael Cummings
A Historical Sociolinguistic Study of the Term Creole in Louisiana
Connie Eble
Dialectological Concepts in Dante
Roy Hagman
R.I.P. The Modern Need for an Ancient Language
Saul Levin
A Terminus Circa Quem for the ‘Emergence’ of ‘Human’ ‘Language’?
Robert Orr
A Micro-Analysis of Looking Behavior of an English- Speaking and a Chinese-Speaking Child
Nancy Pine
The Role of Mental Imagery in SLA
Adina Postica & Douglas W. Coleman
Unmasking Metaphors in Urban Planning
Júlia Todolí & Montserrat Ribas
A Study of Language Identity and Shift: The Christian Reformed Church Dutch of West Michigan
Kara Vandam


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