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A Unified Analysis Of Classifiers And Reduplication Across Nominal And Verbal Domains, Charles Lam
A Unified Analysis Of Classifiers And Reduplication Across Nominal And Verbal Domains, Charles Lam
Purdue Linguistic Association Symposium
This paper discusses the use of classifiers and reduplication in Cantonese. I propose a unified account for the syntax-semantics of both nouns and verbs, based on two functional layers: individuation and quantification. I demonstrate an abstract semantics that handles the interaction between classifiers and reduplication without reference to syntactic categories. Quantification (reduplication) and individuation (classifiers) can be treated as general semantic functions that subsume category-specific functions. The analysis also separates quantification from individuation to provide a natural explanation of durative readings of reduplicated unbounded events.
The (Statistical) Power Of Mechanical Turk, Amelia Kimball
The (Statistical) Power Of Mechanical Turk, Amelia Kimball
Purdue Linguistic Association Symposium
In this paper, I argue for the use of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) in language research. AMT is an online marketplace of paid workers who may be used as subjects, which can greatly increase the statistical power of studies quickly and with minimal funding. I will show that—despite some obvious limitations of using distant subjects—properly designed experiments completed on AMT are trustworthy, cheap, and much faster than traditional face-to-face data collection. Not only this, but AMT workers may help with data analysis, which can greatly increase the scope of research that one researcher may carry out. This paper will first …
The Role Of The Input In Young Children’S Speech Production Is Modulated By Syllable Position, Yuanyuan Wang
The Role Of The Input In Young Children’S Speech Production Is Modulated By Syllable Position, Yuanyuan Wang
Purdue Linguistic Association Symposium
The aim of the current study is to investigate the role of the input on an English-speaking child’s production of fricatives in onset and coda positions. Transcript data from a child-mother dyad from Providence Corpus (Demuth, Culbertson & Alter 2006) in CHILDES database (MacWhinney 2000) was examined. The child and the adult production frequency of fricatives in both onset and coda positions were calculated. The results suggested the role of the input in child’s production was modulated by syllable position; more specifically, the child’s production of fricatives was predicted by the mother’s input frequency better in coda position than in …
Proceedings Of The 9th Pla Symposium, Charles Bradley, Charles Lam, Mengxi Lin
Proceedings Of The 9th Pla Symposium, Charles Bradley, Charles Lam, Mengxi Lin
Purdue Linguistic Association Symposium
This is the combined conference proceedings of the 9th annual Purdue Linguistics Association (PLA) Symposium.