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Two places for causees in productive isiXhosa morphological causatives
(2019-10-22)Gave a guest lecture on my joint work with Zoliswa Mali on isiXhosa causatives. -
Outlook-based semantics
(Springer-Verlag, 2017-12-20)This paper presents and advocates an approach to the semantics of opinion statements, including matters of personal taste and moral claims. In this framework, 'outlook-based semantics', the circumstances of evaluation are ... -
Superlative modifiers as modified superlatives
The superlative modifiers at least and at most are quite famous, but their cousins at best, at the latest, at the highest, etc., are less well-known. This paper is devoted to the entire family. New data is presented ... -
Proportional implies relative: a typological universal
(2017-06-13)We give evidence from a geographically, genetically, and typologically diverse set of languages (drawn from 26 different language families and every continent) for the following typological universal: Regardless of the ... -
It's not what you expected! The surprising nature of cleft alternatives in French and English
(2019-06-18)While much prior literature on the meaning of clefts—such as the English form “it is X who Z-ed”—concentrates on the nature and status of the exhaustivity inference (“nobody/nothing other than X Z”), we report on experiments ... -
Accounting for multicompetence and restructuring in the study of speech
(Acoustical Society of America, 2015-04-27)Phonetic studies meant to generalize to monolingual speakers of a target language have often examined individuals with considerable experience using another language, such as the immigrant native speaker. This paper presents, ... -
Perception of nonnative tonal contrasts by Mandarin-English and English-Mandarin sequential bilinguals
(Acoustical Society of America, 2019-08-07)This study examined the role of acquisition order and crosslinguistic similarity in influencing transfer at the initial stage of perceptually acquiring a tonal third language (L3). Perception of tones in Yoruba and Thai ... -
Production of neutral tone in Mandarin by heritage, native, and second language speakers
(International Phonetic Association, 2019-08-04)This study examined the properties of neutral tone (T0) in Mandarin as produced by three groups: native speakers raised in a Mandarin-speaking environment (L1ers), second language learners raised in an English-speaking ... -
Challenges in development of the American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD) corpus
(2012)The American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset (ASLLVD) consists of videos of >3,300 ASL signs in citation form, each produced by 1-6 native ASL signers, for a total of almost 9,800 tokens. This dataset, including multiple ... -
Recognition of nonmanual markers in American Sign Language (ASL) using non-parametric adaptive 2D-3D face tracking
(EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA, 2012-01-01)This paper addresses the problem of automatically recognizing linguistically significant nonmanual expressions in American Sign Language from video. We develop a fully automatic system that is able to track facial expressions ...