“A Theory of Vowel System Typology Based on Confusion Minimization” - John McGahay “Prosody by Sentence Type in Haryanvi” - Cor Zanda & Sakshi Singh

Cross-Linguistic Variation in Co-Speech Gesture Timing: Evidence for Grammatical Control Co-speech gestures have traditionally been treated as an ‘extralinguistic’ phenomenon, not implicated in theories of grammar (e.g. Hagoort & van...

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The semantics of high negation The goal of this paper is to provide a compositional account of high negation – negation that occurs in the left periphery and makes an expressive contribution – across a wide variety of constructions. I propose that negation, like other natural language expressions, is anaphoric: it can either associate with...

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