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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2018

Allison Burkette  and
William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Allison Burkette
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
William A. Kretzschmar Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Georgia

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Exploring Linguistic Science
Language Use, Complexity, and Interaction
 , pp. vi - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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  1. 1.1Newton’s cradle: Newton’s laws of motion at work

  2. 1.2The Voucanson duck, an automaton designed to reproduce animal digestion

  3. 1.3The two-slit experiment

  4. 2.1Mandelbrot set as generated by fractal geometry

  5. 2.2A fern leaf

  6. 2.3Ants moving a breadcrumb

  7. 2.4The traveling salesperson problem

  8. 2.5Two generations of ants solve the traveling salesperson problem

  9. 2.6Frequency profile as seen in relation to the immune system

  10. 3.1Frequency profile for the doughnut target

  11. 3.2BNC A-curve for collocates of brightly

  12. 3.3COCA A-curve for collocates of brightly

  13. 3.4A-curve for NSPT data from Appalachian speakers (West Virginia)

  14. 3.5A-curve for NSPT data from Appalachian speakers (North Carolina)

  15. 4.1Visualization of vowel space

  16. 4.2Diacritics used for narrow transcription of vowel sounds

  17. 5.1Longitudinal waves (a) and transverse waves (b)

  18. 5.2Ampeeli terms for color chip #148 and resulting A-curve

  19. 5.3Waveform for “above”

  20. 5.4Spectrogram

  21. 5.5Extracted vowel formats with arrows indicating F1, F2, and (in this case) F3

  22. 5.6Vowel space of a male RP speaker, specifically Ian Fleming

  23. 5.7F1/F2 plot of /u/ pronunciations from 18 university students (8 × 9 grid)

  24. 5.8A-curve for F1 and F2 measurements for /u/ pronunciations

  25. 5.9F1 and F2 plot of /u/ pronunciations from 18 university students (4 × 6 grid) and resulting A-curve

  26. 5.10Vowel space of three Memphis siblings

  27. 5.11One speaker’s vowel production

  28. 5.12Tokens of the [æ] vowel from two speakers

  29. 5.13The Cornsweet Illusion: Are the two sides the same shade of gray?

  30. 5.14F1/F2 plots for speakers from eight English locations

  31. 6.1A-curve for the LAMSAS pronunciations of the vowel in two

  32. 6.2Chart of the LAMSAS pronunciations of the vowel in two, simplified phonetic transcriptions

  33. 6.3The A-curve for pronunciations of six by LAMSAS speakers

  34. 6.4The A-curve for pronunciations of six by LAMSAS Type I speakers

  35. 6.5The A-curve for pronunciations of six by LAMSAS Type III speakers

  36. 8.1The A-curve for plural forms of wasp (from LAMSAS)

  37. 8.2N-gram chart of hoofs and hooves in print (1800–2012)

  38. 8.3N-gram chart of “quieter” vs. “more quiet”

  39. 8.4N-gram chart of “quietest” vs. “most quiet”

  40. 9.1Distribution of noun suffixes in academic writing

  41. 9.2Verbification is everywhere

  42. 9.3A-curve for collocates of niche as an adjective

  43. 9.4A-curve for collocates of rubbish as an adjective

  44. 10.1Building a language

  45. 10.2Sedimentation

  46. 11.1Verb + locative construction, interviewers and learners, European Science Foundation ESL corpus

  47. 11.2Verb + object + locative construction, interviewers and learners, European Science Foundation ESL corpus

  48. 12.1Types of birds, on an A-curve

  49. 12.2Characteristics of birds and their A-curve

  50. 12.3Langacker’s four construals

  51. 13.1An example of recursion in syntactic structure

  52. 13.2What are some possibilities as to what this little boy’s pointing might mean?

  53. 14.1Spoiler alert: This is not how we learn language

  54. 14.2Physical symbol systems: the brain and the computer

  55. 17.1A hint of an A-curve

  56. 17.2A visualization of the movement of quotatives in terms of frequency over time

  57. 18.1Corpora online at corpus.byu.edu

  58. 18.2Search tool for the BYU corpora

  59. 18.3Search for “rough NOUN” in the COCA

  60. 18.4AntConc opening screen

  61. 19.1The Indo-European language family

  62. 19.2Daisy model of Indo-European branches

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