Speech is extremely variable along many different dimensions. One source of variability listeners often encounter is accented speech, in which phonological units can systematically differ …
Anaphora represents an important grammatical feature with much theoretical and empirical value. Its forms and functions vary greatly cross-linguistically, and many frameworks have been proposed …
A pilot study by Cohen Priva and Gleason (2016) proposed that cross-linguistic informativity and probability are better predictors of within-language patterns of cost than typological …
Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation but have unrelated meanings. They are widespread in world languages, but little is known regarding how their …
MILLERET, Margo; EAKIN, Marshall C. [eds.] (1993). Homenagem a Alexandrino Severino: Essays on the Portuguese World. Austin: Host Publications, Inc., 274 p. ISBN: 9780924047091.
A collection of poems that de/reconstructs language in its push to reconfigure the lyric I through linguistic gestures that are sometimes defiant, sometimes hopeless, and …
This doctoral dissertation investigates linguistic processes associated with verbal derivation, namely affixation (i.e., adding of a morpheme to a word) and reduplication (i.e., doubling of …
Lexicons utilize a fraction of licit structures. Different theories predict either that lexicons prioritize contrastiveness or structural economy. However, if words in the lexicon do …
Using over one million tweets from Spanish speaking Twitter users in South America I aim to analyze in depth the linguistic differences in the region. …