Volume 12, Summer 1986
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Item Open Access Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 12, Summer 1986(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Byma, Gary; Hildebrand, Joyce LThis is the twelfth 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.Item Open Access Scope ambiguity in Hungarian(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Byma, GaryThe study of semantics seeks to determine, among other things, the meaning of logical words such as connectives, quantifiers and negatives. The introduction of more than one quantifier into a sentence results in a phenomenon in most languages called scope ambiguity. This means that the sentence can have more than one interpretation with respect to the scope of the quantifiers, i.e. the range of the effect of the quantifiers. Fodor (1977:185) notes that a quantifier can have more that one interpretation when it co-occurs with another quantifier.Item Open Access The production and perception of English, French and German intonation(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Grover, Cynthia'Foreign accent' has generally been equated with non-native pronunciation and much research has focused on the area of non-native pronunciation (for example, Briere 1966, Flege 1980). We were interested in other components of non-native speech which create or add to the listener's impression of 'foreign accent'. Specifically, we were interested in the role intonation plays in identifying a non-native speaker. It is not known how widely intonation is used to identify speakers of a different language or dialect. This unanswered question forms the central inquiry of this paper.Item Open Access A lexical analysis of the [č] - [š] alternation in Luiseño(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Lebar, TanyaIn attempting to analyze the phonology of a language within a standard generative framework, it is sometimes difficult to choose among competing analyses. New approaches to phonology sometimes of fer possible solutions to such dilemmas. In this paper, I provide an analysis of a longstanding problem in Luiseño, a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in California. The analysis is presented within the framework of Lexical Phonology. It will be shown that the Lexical approach enables us to resolve an issue which defies a straightforward analysis in the traditional generative framework.Item Open Access The acquisition of control(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Phillips, PaulineThis paper will report on some research that was undertaken to investigate the acquisition of control; that is, the way in which children formulate rules to interpret the subject of embedded infinitival clauses. The study had two major goals. One was to determine whether or not there are stages in the acquisition of control and to propose certain principles which would account for these stages. A second goal was to examine the acquisition of control in connection with the predictions made by the Theory of Markedness.Item Open Access The function of the copy pronouns in Kapampangan(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Rowsell, LornaThere exists in Kapampangan an obligatory set of enclitic pronouns which co-occur with and precede their nominal referents. If it is assumed that marking devices in natural language are minimally efficient, the existence of these copy pronouns may at first be perceived as redundant. In this paper, therefore, I will attempt to show that their presence is necessitated by two factors: the ergative morphology of the language and the Philippine focus construction. Following this analysis, I will present some examples of sentences in which the presence or absence of these pronouns provides syntactic information not otherwise apparent.Item Open Access The acquisition of Japanese pronouns(University of Calgary, 1986-06) Suzuki-Wei, YoshikoIn this paper I will study the acquisition of pronoun interpretation by Japanese children. My study deals mainly with two issues. The first relates to the issue of when some of the principles involved in the interpretation of pronouns appear in child language. The other examines Barbara Lust's (1981, 1983) claim that abstract structural relations unique to the language faculty determine the interpretation of pronouns.