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  • LAN volume 86 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Language / Volume 86 / Issue 2 / June 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 February 2026, pp. f1-f3
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  • Learning phonological categories

  • John Goldsmith, Aris Xanthos
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    Language / Volume 85 / Issue 1 / March 2009
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    19 February 2026, pp. 4-38

  • This article describes in detail several explicit computational methods for approaching such questions in phonology as the vowel/consonant distinction, the nature of vowel harmony systems, and syllable structure, appealing solely to distributional information. Beginning with the vowel/consonant distinction, we consider a method for its discovery by the Russian linguist Boris Sukhotin, and compare it to two newer methods of more general interest, both computational and theoretical, today. The first is based on spectral decomposition of matrices, allowing for dimensionality reduction in a finely controlled way, and the second is based on finding parameters for maximum likelihood in a hidden Markov model. While all three methods work for discovering the fairly robust vowel/consonant distinction, we extend the newer ones to the discovery of vowel harmony, and in the case of the probabilistic model, to the discovery of some aspects of syllable structure.

  • Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization

  • Eric Pederson, Stephen Levinson, Eve Danziger, Sotaro Kita, David Wilkins, Gunter Senft
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    Language / Volume 74 / Issue 3 / September 1998
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    19 February 2026, pp. 557-589

  • This project collected linguistic data for spatial relations across a typologically and genetically varied set of languages. In the linguistic analysis, we focus on the ways in which propositions may be functionally equivalent across the linguistic communities while nonetheless representing semantically quite distinctive frames of reference. Running nonlinguistic experiments on subjects from these language communities, we find that a population’s cognitive frame of reference correlates with the linguistic frame of reference within the same referential domain.

  • LAN volume 87 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

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    Language / Volume 87 / Issue 4 / December 2011
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    19 February 2026, pp. b1-b18
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  • Adult and child understanding of simple reciprocal sentences

  • William Philip
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    Language / Volume 76 / Issue 1 / March 2000
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    19 February 2026, pp. 1-27

  • According to a standard view, the reciprocal pronoun has a fixed semantic value that defines a relation of weak reciprocity, and any stronger readings it may appear to have are pragmatic or lexical interactive effects (Fiengo & Lasnik 1973, Langendoen 1978). Dalrymple et al. 1995 counterproposes that the reciprocal pronoun has a flexible semantic value defining a range of readings of varying logical strength and that a semantic principle determines the reading required for a given reciprocal sentence on the basis of the meaning of its predicate. This article presents psycholinguistic evidence from adult speakers of English, Norwegian, and Dutch, and from child speakers of Dutch and Norwegian, which supports Dalrymple et al.'s analysis of the lexical content of the reciprocal pronoun but which also strongly suggests that the interpretive principle they posit is pragmatic rather than semantic in nature.

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