Volume 07, Winter 1982
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Item Open Access Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7, Winter 1982(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Jehn, Richard Douglas; Rowsell, LornaOwing 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.Item Open Access Resistance to the syntagmatic influence of the vowel /a/ in Spanish(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Anderson, James MThe relative intractability of the vowel /a/ to syntagmatic influence in Popular Latin and early Hispano-Romance seems to support the contention that this sound is unmarked and the most natural of the vocalic phonemes, a consideration also supported by language acquisition studies where /a/ is found to be the earliest vowel in the linguistic formation of children and by typological studies of vowel systems which indicate that /a/ is present in most, if not all, languages. In both stressed and unstressed environments, phonological processes that affected other vowels in the early history of the Spanish language appear to have been constrained when /a/ was involved.Item Open Access The acquisition of word order in Korean*(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Cho, Sook WhanIn the present thesis, I will study the acquisition of word order in Korean. As the acquisition of word order appears to be relevant to the acquisition of case markers in Korean, I will examine the acquisition of the nominative and accusative case markers as well. The conclusions drawn in this thesis are based on the results of a longitudinal observational study and an experimental study.Item Open Access Some thoughts on Turkish voicing assimilation(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Dobrovolsky, MichaelIn this sketch, I shall be working within a framework of assumptions about phonology that includes the existence of statements about phonetic and phonological facts about language which I shall call general constraints. As a working hypothesis, I hold that general constraints can be stated for both the phonological and phonetic level of representation. In employing general constraints as a descriptive phonological device, I am in effect claiming that the phonologically relevant statements we can make about language are not merely the sum of the list of phonological rules of the language that relate underlying forms to surface phonetics. I view the general constraint as a statement of theoretically relevant (phonetic/phonological) facts about languages, while phonological rules are the statements of implementation of these facts, statements which may be diverse and various in their manner of achieving implementation. Any discussion of Turkish phonology will have to come to grips with the issue of the representation of voiced-voiceless consonant alternations.Item Open Access Invented spelling in adults: more data*(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Jehn, Richard DouglasAfter 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.Item Open Access Aspects of idiom*(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Sayers, CoralWeinreich (1969) defines an idiom as "a complex expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the meanings of its elements." This writer has collected examples of idioms from the English, German, Australian English, and Quebec French dialects (Appendix I) in order to examine the properties of the idiom, to explore in the literature the current concepts of idiom, and to relate relevant knowledge gained by these processes to the teaching of English as a Second Language.Item Open Access The forms of address in contemporary Polish(University of Calgary, 1982-01) Tuszynska, Wanda EIn this paper we will attempt to describe the forms of address in present-day Polish and the patterning of their usage. Having no access to sources which could verify our hypotheses, we have thus based our judgments on intuition and experience alone. Therefore, our description will by no means be complete and well-documented.Taking into consideration the political status quo of Poland one could naively expect the address forms to be fairly homogeneous, with a solidarity pronoun being extensively used. In an allegedly unstratified society, the dominance of the deferential forms of address over solidarity pronouns would seem surprising to the early Marxist-Leninist ideologist. Moreover, some instances of nonreciprocal forms of address are encountered. It is our desire to show that the Polish system of address employs an extreme variety of forms and their usage is ruled by quite a complicated "code" (or set of rules). Furthermore, we wish to cast some light on the interdependence of the Polish system of address and the socio-political pattern. The observed phenomena will entitle us to put forward a hypothesis that politically induced changes do not necessarily affect social attitudes (as expressed in language).