Variable Properties in Language
Their Nature and Acquisition
Published on 1. July 2019
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-62616-663-9 (ISBN)
Description
This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "Why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "Why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?" Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on the particular question-sociolinguists do not talk to historical linguists, who do not talk to phoneticians, and so on. This edited volume seeks to bring discussions from different subfields of linguistics together to explore language variation in a broader sense and acknowledge the complexity and interwoven nature of variation itself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington, DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62616-663-9 (9781626166639)
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07/2019
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Persons
David W. Lightfoot is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Communication, Culture & Technology program at Georgetown University. He is also Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science.
Jonathan Havenhill received his PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University in 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.
Jonathan Havenhill received his PhD in Theoretical Linguistics from Georgetown University in 2018. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong.
Content
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1. Re-thinking variable properties in language: Introduction
David W. Lightfoot and Jonathan Havenhill
2. Contrastive feature hierarchies in phonology: Variation and universality
B. Elan Dresher
3. Scope variation in contrastive hierarchies of morphosyntactic features
Elizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall
4. Allophonic systems as a variable within individual speakers
Betsy Sneller
5. A label theoretic explanation of the resultative parameter
Daniel Milway
6. Adverbial -s: so awks but so natural!
Norbert Corver
7. The acquisition of English article alternations: Variation, competition, and the default
Marjorie Pak
8. Verb second word order in Norwegian heritage language: Syntax and pragmatics
Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal
9. Acquisition of morphosyntax: A pattern learning approach
Heidi Getz
10. How to be faithful to the input in a situation of language contact
Alicia Avellana, Lucia Brandani, Hannah Forsythe, and Cristina Schmitt
11. Variation and mental representation
Gregory Guy
12. Variation and competing I-languages in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic view
Marlyse Baptista
13. Transmission revisited
Gillian Sankoff
14. The value of small communities in a big data world: Investigating Smith Island English in real and apparent time
Natalie Schilling
15. All zeros are not equal in African American English
Lisa Green
Contributors
Index
Illustrations
Preface
1. Re-thinking variable properties in language: Introduction
David W. Lightfoot and Jonathan Havenhill
2. Contrastive feature hierarchies in phonology: Variation and universality
B. Elan Dresher
3. Scope variation in contrastive hierarchies of morphosyntactic features
Elizabeth Cowper and Daniel Currie Hall
4. Allophonic systems as a variable within individual speakers
Betsy Sneller
5. A label theoretic explanation of the resultative parameter
Daniel Milway
6. Adverbial -s: so awks but so natural!
Norbert Corver
7. The acquisition of English article alternations: Variation, competition, and the default
Marjorie Pak
8. Verb second word order in Norwegian heritage language: Syntax and pragmatics
Marit Westergaard and Terje Lohndal
9. Acquisition of morphosyntax: A pattern learning approach
Heidi Getz
10. How to be faithful to the input in a situation of language contact
Alicia Avellana, Lucia Brandani, Hannah Forsythe, and Cristina Schmitt
11. Variation and mental representation
Gregory Guy
12. Variation and competing I-languages in creole genesis: A synchronic and diachronic view
Marlyse Baptista
13. Transmission revisited
Gillian Sankoff
14. The value of small communities in a big data world: Investigating Smith Island English in real and apparent time
Natalie Schilling
15. All zeros are not equal in African American English
Lisa Green
Contributors
Index