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...

Review of ASA abstracts

Rethinking the fundamentals of sentence comprehension A nearly self-evident fact about human language is that knowing a language consists of two systems: a list of terms stored in long-term memory (the lexicon), and the procedural system for composing these terms into complex expressions (the grammar). This distinction is further reified in theories of language comprehension and...

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"Phonetics of Palatalization in O'dam"

“Overflow of the phonological planning window: Mandarin Tone 3 Sandhi reanalyzed”