Browsing by Author "Jehn, Richard Douglas"

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    Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    Dramatic sound shifts are presently occurring in Snowdrift, North West Territories Chipewyan which may provide some clues to the nature of normal phonological change in language. This paper deals with the complete shift of /t/ to /k/, the loss (or voicing) of /ɬ/, the loss of morphemes which contain /ɣ/, and the reanalysis of nasalized vowels into vowel plus nasal consonant, all of which are illustrations of the type of sound change that the linguist in the field rarely expects to witness.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Spring 1980
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Doran, Christopher J.; Gibbons, Diana E.; Jehn, Richard Douglas
    This issue is the sixth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at The University of Calgary. The series provides a vehicle for faculty members and students to publish current research. These papers represent research in progress and are not to be considered final statements by the authors. The appearance of these articles in the current issue does not preclude their publication in altered form elsewhere.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7, Winter 1982
    (University of Calgary, 1982-01) Jehn, Richard Douglas; Rowsell, Lorna
    Owing to serious organizational difficulties combined with the heavy workloads of those involved with publication, this seventh issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics belatedly appears in February 1982. As in the past, we ask that our readers treat these articles as working papers; their appearance here does not preclude their publication in a different form elsewhere.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 8, Fall 1982
    (University of Calgary, 1982-09) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    With sincere apologies for further unforeseen delays, we belatedly present the eighth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at the University of Calgary. These papers represent the current research in progress of students and Faculty members and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive. Appearance of papers in this volume does not preclude their publication in another form elsewhere.
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    Invented spelling in adults: more data*
    (University of Calgary, 1982-01) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    After learning the English alphabet, a very few children, perhaps 10% or less, 1 "spontaneously" begin to create their own "invented spellings." Children who participate in invented spelling activity are faced with the task of providing representations of approximately 40 phonemic sounds (depending upon the dialect of English under consideration) with only 26 letters of the alphabet. Hence, it is hardly surprising that children use certain unusual strategies to achieve their goals.
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    Particle t'a in Snowdrift Chipewyan
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    Some problem has arisen in accurately characterizing the general nature, the morphosyntactic description, and, in particular, the function of the putative relative clause marking particle t'a in Chipewyan. This paper attempts to provide a preliminary account of t'a. expanding on work which has preceded.
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    That's something that I wouldn't want to have to account for, is a sentence like this one*
    (University of Calgary, 1979-05) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    The grammar of focus phenomena in English has come under intensive investigation in recent years and this research has provided much in the way of explanation for structures which had previously been little understood, e.g. cleft constructions, topicalization, etc. There is, however, at least one type of focus construction which seems to pattern like pseudo-cleft sentences, but which has been neglected in the literature. This paper outlines the most apparent aspects of the syntactic and semantic behaviour of the construction in question and presents a tentative proposal for its incorporation into the grammar of English following the framework of the revised extended standard theory (Chomsky 1975, 1977a; Chomsky and Lasnik 1977).