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  • Connections between Nasality and Vowel Duration and Height: Elucidation of the Eastern Algonquian Intrusive Nasal

  • D. H. Whalen, Patrice S. Beddor
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 65 / Issue 3 / September 1989
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    12 March 2026, pp. 457-486

  • In certain Eastern Algonquian languages a nasal vowel developed from the long low vowel /a:/, regardless of consonantal context. A series of experiments showed that longer vowels (regardless of height) were perceived as more nasalized than shorter ones, but only when some nasalization was actually present. Further experiments showed no evidence of an increase in nasalization for long vowels in oral contexts. If some nasalization was nonetheless introduced (either randomly or by a general increase in nasalization) into these languages, the vowels most likely to be perceived as nasalized were the long ones. This perceptual process may have been responsible for this unusual historical development.

  • LAN volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 52 / Issue 3 / September 1976
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    12 March 2026, pp. b1-b9
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  • LAN volume 51 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 51 / Issue 2 / June 1975
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    12 March 2026, pp. f1-f3
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  • Speech as a Personality Symbol: The Case of Achilles

  • Paul Friedrich, James Redfield
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 1978
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    12 March 2026, pp. 263-288

  • Individual speech is a minimal system of language use and variation and yet, despite its theoretical interest, has been neglected; syntax (as against phonology) has been egregiously ignored. This article, stimulated by the work of Adam Parry and of Sapir, partly solves a thorny problem over two millennia old. Using total samples of Achilles and his interlocutors, the authors establish nine categories of discriminatory variables in rhetoric, discourse, and syntax; ‘expressive rhetoric’, asyndeton, and particles are particularly revealing. The speech of Achilles is related to the personality which it symbolizes. Our conclusions concern three major open questions in the study of individual variation.

  • Referential properties of Spanish noun phrases

  • María-Luisa Rivero
  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / March 1975
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    12 March 2026, pp. 32-48

  • This article discusses two aspects of definite and indefinite NP's in the grammar of Spanish: SPECIFICITY, which is formally marked by the mood of restrictive relative clauses; and EXISTENTIAL IMPORT, which derives from the linguistic environment by principles connected with presuppositions in general. Specificity and existential import belong to the grammar of Spanish, not to the realm of pragmatics. In Spanish, Donnellan's referential descriptions constitute a sub-set of specific NP's (definite specific NP's in the singular with an existential presupposition determined by the linguistic environment). Attributive descriptions, on the other hand, are singular, definite, nonspecific NP's having an existential presupposition.

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