Steve Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SIL International |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9045-1758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing emotional intelligence through affective outdoor learning
This research paper explores the development of emotional intelligence through emotional support and social empathy in outdoor education students in New Zealand. Data gathering focussed on the socio-emotional interactions between students and with adults through the context of rock climbing and kayaking activities. Rich descriptions from staff and students of one primary and two secondary schools were obtained by interviews, observations and vide…
Sounding out Sonority
This metastudy summarizes 264 recent experimental works involving sonority. The discussion here centers around an accompanying appendix that lists several details of each study, including the research question or hypothesis, outcome, language of focus, stimuli used to probe for the effect of sonority, methodology used to present test items and/or obtain results, participants' task, variables measured, and keywords. These metadata are presented in…
The Sonority Controversy
Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has …
Sonority Controversy
Talking to Pets in Arara
In this article, we describe the phonological behavior of a unique series of fourteen language games in Arara, a Cariban language of Brazil. These are known mainly by elderly speakers only. The primary sociolinguistic function of the language games is to express solidarity and friendship with different pet animals, including dogs, birds, and various kinds of monkeys. Each language game is used when talking to or with a particular species of anima…
Sound level protrusions as physical correlates of sonority
La rinoglotofilia y el gruñido de afirmación
Aumentando una lista preliminar (Parker 1996), presento un corpus de 705 palabras que significan ‘sí’ tomadas de 582 lenguas habladas en 74 países. Basándome en todos estos datos, postulo una plantilla universal básica o fom1a canónica de este vocablo que tiene el patrón /he?e/. En la discusión que sigue, propongo una explicación formal y funcional de este fenón1eno a raíz del concepto de un gesto articulatorio mínimo.
A cross-linguistic corpus of forms meaning yes
Based on a carefully-compiled database of 604 attested forms for 'yes' taken from 512 languages spoken in over 70 countries, I show that this word exhibits a cross-linguistic tendency to contain laryngeal phonemes. As part of the statistical analysis I examine cognate items within specific genetic families and argue that certain phonotactic patterns involving 'yes' are not random in nature. These findings further corroborate the observation that …
Initial and medial geminate trills in Arop-Lokep
Arop-Lokep, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, has a contrast between a trilled /r/ and a geminate /rr/ in both intervocalic and word-initial positions. This paper presents the results of acoustic and perceptual experiments involving these segments. Specifically, we probe the statistical characteristics of the /r/ vs. /rr/ contrast across prosodic positions from the perspective of both the speaker and the listener. We measure trills in…
The psychological reality of sonority in English
A long-standing controversy in the interface between phonology and other disciplines involves the nature of sonority. This paper seeks to help resolve this issue by showing that the sonority hierarchy is psychologically real to native speakers of English. This is accomplished by reporting the results of a rigorous and in-depth psycholinguistic experiment involving a common process of playful reduplication. A list of 99 hypothetical rhyming pairs …
Non-optimal onsets in Chamicuro
The widely attested onset/coda asymmetry involves a situation in which the inventory of phonemes in syllable-final position in a particular language is a subset of those which contrast in onsets. The inverse of this pattern has been claimed to never occur (Goldsmith 1990, Beckman 1998). However, this prediction is falsified by Chamicuro, a Peruvian language in which /h/ and /[glottal plosive]/ are systematically restricted to coda position. Since…
On the Phonemic Status of [h] in Tiriyó
Aspects of Yuhup Phonology
En este artículo se presenta un esbozo de varios fenómenos interesantes de la rica fonología de Yuhup
A Sketch of Iñapari Phonology
On the Behavior of Definite Articles in Chamicuro
This report describes the unique behavior of two clitic particles in a moribund Amazonian language. In Chamicuro na and ka are basically definite articles, yet they contrast for tense ( ka indicates a past action while na is used in present and future contexts). The prosodic eneliticization of na and ka is completely predictable from general phonological constraints alone and thus does not depend on any syntactic factors. Consequently, the strand…
Glottalized and Aspirated Stops in Cuzco Quechua
Toward a Universal Form for 'Yes
Based on a corpus of 297 attested words for 'yes' collected from 44 countries, I propose a basic universal template or canonical form for this lexical item having the pattern /he?e/. In the accompanying discussion I show how the diverse language-specific variants can be derived from this theme through the optional selection of a handful of simple, natural phonological modifications. In the conclusion I suggest a functional explanation for this ph…
Chamicuro laterals
Laryngeal Codas in Chamicuro
Coda Epenthesis in Huariapano
El silabeo del grupo consonántico /tl/ en el castellano peruano
Sound level protrusions as physical correlates of sonority
Coda Epenthesis in Huariapano
Glottalized and Aspirated Stops in Cuzco Quechua
Laryngeal Codas in Chamicuro
A Sketch of Iñapari Phonology
On the Behavior of Definite Articles in Chamicuro
This report describes the unique behavior of two clitic particles in a moribund Amazonian language. In Chamicuro na and ka are basically definite articles, yet they contrast for tense ( ka indicates a past action while na is used in present and future contexts). The prosodic eneliticization of na and ka is completely predictable from general phonological constraints alone and thus does not depend on any syntactic factors. Consequently, the strand…
On the Phonemic Status of [h] in Tiriyó
Sounding out Sonority
This metastudy summarizes 264 recent experimental works involving sonority. The discussion here centers around an accompanying appendix that lists several details of each study, including the research question or hypothesis, outcome, language of focus, stimuli used to probe for the effect of sonority, methodology used to present test items and/or obtain results, participants' task, variables measured, and keywords. These metadata are presented in…
Initial and medial geminate trills in Arop-Lokep
Arop-Lokep, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, has a contrast between a trilled /r/ and a geminate /rr/ in both intervocalic and word-initial positions. This paper presents the results of acoustic and perceptual experiments involving these segments. Specifically, we probe the statistical characteristics of the /r/ vs. /rr/ contrast across prosodic positions from the perspective of both the speaker and the listener. We measure trills in…
The psychological reality of sonority in English
A long-standing controversy in the interface between phonology and other disciplines involves the nature of sonority. This paper seeks to help resolve this issue by showing that the sonority hierarchy is psychologically real to native speakers of English. This is accomplished by reporting the results of a rigorous and in-depth psycholinguistic experiment involving a common process of playful reduplication. A list of 99 hypothetical rhyming pairs …
Aspects of Yuhup Phonology
En este artículo se presenta un esbozo de varios fenómenos interesantes de la rica fonología de Yuhup
Toward a Universal Form for 'Yes
Based on a corpus of 297 attested words for 'yes' collected from 44 countries, I propose a basic universal template or canonical form for this lexical item having the pattern /he?e/. In the accompanying discussion I show how the diverse language-specific variants can be derived from this theme through the optional selection of a handful of simple, natural phonological modifications. In the conclusion I suggest a functional explanation for this ph…
El silabeo del grupo consonántico /tl/ en el castellano peruano
Laryngeal Codas in Chamicuro
Coda Epenthesis in Huariapano
Chamicuro laterals
Glottalized and Aspirated Stops in Cuzco Quechua
Toward a Universal Form for 'Yes
Based on a corpus of 297 attested words for 'yes' collected from 44 countries, I propose a basic universal template or canonical form for this lexical item having the pattern /he?e/. In the accompanying discussion I show how the diverse language-specific variants can be derived from this theme through the optional selection of a handful of simple, natural phonological modifications. In the conclusion I suggest a functional explanation for this ph…
Aspects of Yuhup Phonology
En este artículo se presenta un esbozo de varios fenómenos interesantes de la rica fonología de Yuhup
A Sketch of Iñapari Phonology
On the Behavior of Definite Articles in Chamicuro
This report describes the unique behavior of two clitic particles in a moribund Amazonian language. In Chamicuro na and ka are basically definite articles, yet they contrast for tense ( ka indicates a past action while na is used in present and future contexts). The prosodic eneliticization of na and ka is completely predictable from general phonological constraints alone and thus does not depend on any syntactic factors. Consequently, the strand…
Non-optimal onsets in Chamicuro
The widely attested onset/coda asymmetry involves a situation in which the inventory of phonemes in syllable-final position in a particular language is a subset of those which contrast in onsets. The inverse of this pattern has been claimed to never occur (Goldsmith 1990, Beckman 1998). However, this prediction is falsified by Chamicuro, a Peruvian language in which /h/ and /[glottal plosive]/ are systematically restricted to coda position. Since…
On the Phonemic Status of [h] in Tiriyó
The psychological reality of sonority in English
A long-standing controversy in the interface between phonology and other disciplines involves the nature of sonority. This paper seeks to help resolve this issue by showing that the sonority hierarchy is psychologically real to native speakers of English. This is accomplished by reporting the results of a rigorous and in-depth psycholinguistic experiment involving a common process of playful reduplication. A list of 99 hypothetical rhyming pairs …
Initial and medial geminate trills in Arop-Lokep
Arop-Lokep, an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea, has a contrast between a trilled /r/ and a geminate /rr/ in both intervocalic and word-initial positions. This paper presents the results of acoustic and perceptual experiments involving these segments. Specifically, we probe the statistical characteristics of the /r/ vs. /rr/ contrast across prosodic positions from the perspective of both the speaker and the listener. We measure trills in…
La rinoglotofilia y el gruñido de afirmación
Aumentando una lista preliminar (Parker 1996), presento un corpus de 705 palabras que significan ‘sí’ tomadas de 582 lenguas habladas en 74 países. Basándome en todos estos datos, postulo una plantilla universal básica o fom1a canónica de este vocablo que tiene el patrón /he?e/. En la discusión que sigue, propongo una explicación formal y funcional de este fenón1eno a raíz del concepto de un gesto articulatorio mínimo.
A cross-linguistic corpus of forms meaning yes
Based on a carefully-compiled database of 604 attested forms for 'yes' taken from 512 languages spoken in over 70 countries, I show that this word exhibits a cross-linguistic tendency to contain laryngeal phonemes. As part of the statistical analysis I examine cognate items within specific genetic families and argue that certain phonotactic patterns involving 'yes' are not random in nature. These findings further corroborate the observation that …
Sound level protrusions as physical correlates of sonority
The Sonority Controversy
Sonority has a long and contentious history. It has often been invoked by linguists as an explanatory principle underlying various cross-linguistic phonotactic generalizations, especially within the domain of the syllable. However, many phonologists and phoneticians have expressed concerns about the adequacy of formal accounts based on sonority, including even doubts about the very existence of sonority itself. To date, the topic of sonority has …
Sonority Controversy
Talking to Pets in Arara
In this article, we describe the phonological behavior of a unique series of fourteen language games in Arara, a Cariban language of Brazil. These are known mainly by elderly speakers only. The primary sociolinguistic function of the language games is to express solidarity and friendship with different pet animals, including dogs, birds, and various kinds of monkeys. Each language game is used when talking to or with a particular species of anima…
Sounding out Sonority
This metastudy summarizes 264 recent experimental works involving sonority. The discussion here centers around an accompanying appendix that lists several details of each study, including the research question or hypothesis, outcome, language of focus, stimuli used to probe for the effect of sonority, methodology used to present test items and/or obtain results, participants' task, variables measured, and keywords. These metadata are presented in…
Developing emotional intelligence through affective outdoor learning
This research paper explores the development of emotional intelligence through emotional support and social empathy in outdoor education students in New Zealand. Data gathering focussed on the socio-emotional interactions between students and with adults through the context of rock climbing and kayaking activities. Rich descriptions from staff and students of one primary and two secondary schools were obtained by interviews, observations and vide…
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