Sophia A Malamud

Biographic Data

ID1355768
NAMESophia A Malamud
GIVEN NAMESSophia A
FAMILY NAMEMalamud
SIGNATUREMALAMUD S A
AFFILIATIONSBrandeis University
ORCID0000-0002-1321-7685
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Acquisition of Russian Voice Morphology

    Open AccessPasha Koval, Sophia A Malamud et al.ARTICLELanguages2026

    The Russian suffix -sja presents a learnability problem: a single morpheme signals five distinct argument-structure alternations (anticausative, reflexive, antipassive, reciprocal, and impersonal). How do monolingual and bilingual children acquire this complex form-function mapping? We report a longitudinal corpus study of 13 Russian-speaking children (five monolinguals and eight bilinguals) examining the emergence, distribution, and productivity…

  • “Won’t you?” reverse-polarity question tags in American English as a window into the semantics-pragmatics interface

    Open AccessTatjana Scheffler, Sophia A MalamudARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2023

    We model the conventional meaning of utterances that combine two distinct clause types: a (positive) declarative or imperative (in rare cases, interrogative) anchor and a (negative) interrogative tag, such as won’t you? . We argue that such utterances express a single speech act, and in fact, a single conventional update of the conversational scoreboard. The proposed model of this effect is a straightforward extension of prior proposals for the s…

  • A construção de corpus de larga escala da fala bilíngue de crianças e da fala bilíngue dirigida à criança, anotado e alinhado aos arquivos de áudio

    Open AccessAndy Luu, Pasha Koval et al.ARTICLEBakhtiniana Revista de Estudos do…2022

    O projeto BiRCh (The Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child Speech, Corpus de fala de crianças bilíngues em russo) envolve a construção de um corpus longitudinal composto de gravações de fala em russo produzida por crianças e suas famílias na Rússia, Ucrânia, Alemanha, EUA e Canadá. Estamos construindo um corpus de larga escala com base no conjunto dessas gravações, o ‘Parsed and Audio-aligned Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child and Child-directed Speec…

  • Creating a Large-Scale Audio-Aligned Parsed Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child and Child-Directed Speech (BiRCh)

    Open AccessAndy Luu, Pasha Koval et al.ARTICLEBakhtiniana Revista de Estudos do…2022

    The BiRCh Project (The Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child Speech) involves collecting a longitudinal audio corpus of Russian spoken by children and their families in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, the U.S., and Canada. We are building a large-scale corpus based on a subset of this data, the “Parsed and Audio-aligned Corpus of Bilingual Russian Child and Child-directed Speech (BiRCh)” with two basic components: (1) 1-million-word transcripts which are t…

  • Emergent communicative norms in a contact language

    Open AccessIrina Y Dubinina, Sophia A MalamudARTICLELinguistics2017Cited by: 1References: 7

    The present paper contributes to the study of speech act pragmatics, language contact, bilingualism, and heritage languages by bringing attention to the pragmatics of a contact language, heritage Russian (HR). The current study has a descriptive orientation, its main goal being to create a baseline for the pragmatic competence of speakers with incomplete acquisition of L1, which characterizes language contact in immigrant populations. We focus on…

  • Three Ways to Avoid Commitments

    Sophia A Malamud, T StephensonARTICLEJournal of Semantics2015

    We discuss three English markers that modify the force of declarative utterances: reversepolarity tags (Tom’s here, isn’t he?), samepolarity tags (Tom’s here, is he?), and rising intonation (Tom’s here?). The di erences among them are brought out in dialogues with taste predicates (tasty, attractive) and vague scalar predicates applied to borderline cases (red for an orange-red object), with consequences for the correct model of conversation, com…

  • (In)definiteness-driven typology of arbitrary items

    Open AccessSophia A MalamudARTICLELingua2013Cited by: 2References: 24

  • The meaning of plural definites

    Open AccessSophia A Malamud, Sophia MalamudARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2012

    This paper has two mutually motivating goals. The empirical goal is to demonstrate that definite plurals are expressions whose interpretation requires an approach that incorporates the goals of the speaker and hearer. The theoretical goal is to contribute to the development of a mathematical model of the pragmatic reasoning involved in the interpretation of underspecified utterances. I propose a decision-theoretic approach in which alternative in…

  • A Semantics for the Particle αν in and outside Conditionals in Classical Greek

    Open AccessSophia A Malamud, Iryna Osadcha et al.ARTICLEJournal of Greek Linguistics2012Cited by: 1References: 4

    In this paper, we provide a uni ied semantics for the Classical Greek particle αν in its uses both in and outside of conditional sentences. Speci ically, working within the framework provided by formal semantic treatments of conditionals in Stalnaker (1968); Lewis (1973); Kratzer (1981) and subsequent work, we propose that αν is a universal quanti ier over situations—parts of possible worlds. We also detail the interactions between αν and the ten…