Stuart Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0233-080X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Interrogating ‘Chinese imperialism’: Multi-polarity, inter-imperialist rivalry, and the New Cold War with China”
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue “China and the Global South: Interrogating Imperialist Ambitions.” It begins the issue by laying out the major theoretical positions developed in recent years regarding so-called “Chinese imperialism” and highlights the framing effects of the US-propagated New Cold War with China on how nations in the Global South interact with both China and the US. Finally, it briefly introduces the fi…
A Feature Alignment Approach to Plural Realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish
Using an optimality theoretic analysis, this study offers a conception of the problem of plural realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish (EAS) where plural suffix /s/ was deleted diachronically that differs from other accounts that assign the EAS plural an underlying suffixal /s/ synchronically. Using alignment constraints, we argue that plural /s/ does not appear in the underlying form synchronically in EAS, but that instead the plural morpheme…
What is Netflix imperialism? Interrogating the monopoly aspirations of the ‘World's largest television network’
Building on the controversial charge of Netflix imperialism made in 2019 by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation president Catherine Tait, this piece attempts to develop a theoretical and technical framework for understanding whether the American content provider/streaming service is engaging in ‘media imperialism’ by rapidly and expansively importing its service into other nations--often to the chagrin of governments and other media companies. Read…
Right-Wing Leninism in Brazil: Reflections on O Movimento Brasil Livre
Drawing on the case of O Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement), or MBL, this article interrogates key assumptions about the nature of networked digital activism. The MBL, formed in the early 2010s by a Koch-funded network of libertarian student groups, utilized a combination of activist training and strategic media engagement to organize a series of mass mobilizations in 2015 against supposed corruption within the Partido dos Trabalha…
Nurse-patient communication on the south Texas border: Negotiating language and cultural discordance during the Covid-19 pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, medical professionals have experienced unforeseen and often under-discussed hurdles to meeting the surging demand for patient care. In particular, practitioners in under-resourced areas have faced enormous barriers when attempting to adequately address the swell in demand. Analyzing these tensions through the growing body of literature on patient communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article centers th…
American Raising
Characteristics of Incipient American Raising and Lifespan Change
Research Article| December 01 2021 4. Characteristics of Incipient American Raising and Lifespan Change: Focus on Fort Wayne Stuart Davis; Stuart Davis stuart davis is professor of linguistics at Indiana University. His primary area of research is phonology with a focus on typological issues related to prosodic structure within the word and a language focus on American English and Arabic dialects. He has secondary research interests in morphology…
Bullshit human rights: Breitbart News’ “Cartel Chronicles” and the militarized framing of humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border
Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of roughly 700 articles published on the Breitbart News ‘Cartel Chronicles’ site between 2015 and 2021, this article analyzes the ways conservative citizen journalism projects strategically mobilize key tropes from international human rights to justify calls for militarization on the US/Mexico Border. Specifically, it details how widely accepted human rights frameworks like freedom of the press and protec…
Moraic preservation and equivalence in Gújjolaay Eegimaa perfective reduplication
The role of syllable weight in Gújjolaay Eegimaa, an Atlantic language spoken in south-western Senegal, is evidenced by reduplicative patterns in the perfective stem, where we witness a difference in the surface representation of verb roots with underlying voiced obstruents from those with underlying voiceless obstruents. We argue that voiced plosives are weight bearing and therefore considered as moraic when in coda position in this language. We…
The Typology of Pharyngealization in Arabic Dialects Focusing on a Rural Jordanian Variety
Pharyngealization, also known as emphasis, is phonologically a very productive process in most Arabic varieties. This study first overviews the typology of pharyngealization in Arabic dialects and then focuses on the analysis of pharyngealization (i.e., emphasis spread) in a subvariety of rural Jordanian Arabic, which differs considerably from other dialects. The preferred structure in this subvariety of Jordanian Arabic is the emphatic syllable …
La Gordiloca and the vicissitudes of social media journalism on the U.S. – Mexico border
This article draws on the case of La Gordiloca, a Facebook-based journalist from Laredo, TX, to interrogate the increasing role of social media within news-making processes. Applauded by The New York Times as a paragon of twenty-first century journalism and under scrutiny from local businesses and law enforcement for defamation and misuse of official information, she occupies a space between digital journalist and social media celebrity. Combinin…
Unlocking the Mystery of Dialect B
This article addresses incipient/aI/-raising in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Acoustic analysis of word list data from 27 participants targets both typical items (e.g., write, writing) and monomorphemic trochaic words often overlooked in previous research (e.g., Nike, bison, cyber, tiger). It reports four major/aI/production patterns in the Fort Wayne data, which range on a continuum from no/aI/-raising to phonological raising of/aI/(i.e., raising before …
Producing Antipetismo: Media activism and the rise of the radical, nationalist right in contemporary Brazil
When examining the decline of the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores and the ascension of the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsanaro of the far-right Partido Liberal Social to the 2018 presidency, political scientists David Samuels and Cesar Zucco have argued that this shift is best understood not through positive characteristics of Bolsonaro’s candidacy but through antipetismo [‘anti-PT-ism’], an intensely personal resentment of the Partido dos Trab…
Digital Archives as Subaltern Counter-Histories: Situating “Favela Tem Memoria” in the Rio de Janeiro media and political landscape
This piece analyzes the possibilities raised by leveraging digital archives as tools for community advocacy in marginalized communities. Drawing upon a case study of “Favela Tem Memoria”, an archive created by the Viva Rio NGO, I will first analyze how the project offers a digital space for collecting and sharing a “counter-history” of these communities that have been historically marginalized in economic, social, and political terms. Then, I wil…
Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited: The morpho-semantics of the positive form in Arabic
Drumming and digital inclusion: Music, identity formation, and transformative empowerment in Afro-Brazilian community development NGOs
This article draws upon music training programmes developed by Afro-Brazilian activists in the city of Salvador, Bahia, as a strategy for connecting training in musical production with computer skills. Though a seemingly incongruous pairing, we argue that for Afro-Brazilian young people learning how to create music helps provide a sense of cultural identity and consciousness that helps them then move into learning about technology. This two-step …
What does incipient /ay/-raising look like: A response to Josef Fruehwald
In examining the history of /ay/-raising before voiceless consonants in Philadelphia, Josef Fruehwald (2016) concludes that either categorical phonological conditioning was present from the very onset of this phonetic change, or the period of purely phonetic conditioning was too brief to be identified. This is based on the observation that raising is phonological in the Philadelphia data: it occurs before voiced flaps that are underlyingly voicel…
The construction of a transnational Lusophone media space: A historiographic analysis
This piece examines the historical construction of a Lusophone cultural-linguistic media space and market that spans portions of Europe, Africa, and South America. Beginning with the Portuguese colonization of Brazil and Lusophone Africa in the 17th century and continuing to the contemporary moment, our discussion examines how a combination of political, ideological, and economic patterns created linkages between Portugal, Brazil, and Portuguese-…
Citizen Health Journalism: Negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers
This article discusses an innovative experiment in transforming citizen journalism from a general discourse to a specific set of criteria that can be reproduced in classroom settings. Specifically, it discusses how the Rio de Janeiro-based non-governmental organization Viva Rio created a set of classes called Citizen Health Journalism that attempted to train community health workers (titled “health agents”) in the technical and philosophical dime…
Citizens' Media in the Favelas: Finding a Place for Community-Based Digital Media Production in Social Change Processes
Journal Article Citizens' Media in the Favelas: Finding a Place for Community-Based Digital Media Production in Social Change Processes Get access Stuart Davis Stuart Davis 1Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas-Austin, TX, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 230–243, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12069 Published: 30 April 2015
Non-Concatenative Derivation
The Diachronic Link between Onset Clusters and Codas
Rhyme or Reason? A Look at Syllable-Internal Constituents
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
On the role of margin phonotactics in Colloquial Bamana complex syllables
Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
Producing Antipetismo: Media activism and the rise of the radical, nationalist right in contemporary Brazil
When examining the decline of the leftist Partido dos Trabalhadores and the ascension of the right-wing extremist Jair Bolsanaro of the far-right Partido Liberal Social to the 2018 presidency, political scientists David Samuels and Cesar Zucco have argued that this shift is best understood not through positive characteristics of Bolsonaro’s candidacy but through antipetismo [‘anti-PT-ism’], an intensely personal resentment of the Partido dos Trab…
The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: An Alignment Approach With Typological Implications
Article The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: an alignment approach with typological implications was published on May 13, 2003 in the journal Linguistics (volume 41, issue 4)
Vowel length and closure duration in word-medial VC sequences
On a non-argument for the Rhyme
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Arabic Hypocoristics and the Status of the Consonantal Root
There is currently a controversy regarding the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root in the Semitic languages. Bat-El (1994) and Ratcliffe (1997) have argued against the lexical status of the consonantal root in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. However, Prunet, Béland, and Idrissi (2000) present Arabic aphasic evidence supporting the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root for Arabic. In this article we offer supporting ev…
Italian onset structure and the distribution of il and lo
The location of the feature [continuant] in feature geometry
Citizens' Media in the Favelas: Finding a Place for Community-Based Digital Media Production in Social Change Processes
Journal Article Citizens' Media in the Favelas: Finding a Place for Community-Based Digital Media Production in Social Change Processes Get access Stuart Davis Stuart Davis 1Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas-Austin, TX, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 25, Issue 2, May 2015, Pages 230–243, https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12069 Published: 30 April 2015
Bullshit human rights: Breitbart News’ “Cartel Chronicles” and the militarized framing of humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border
Drawing on a qualitative content analysis of roughly 700 articles published on the Breitbart News ‘Cartel Chronicles’ site between 2015 and 2021, this article analyzes the ways conservative citizen journalism projects strategically mobilize key tropes from international human rights to justify calls for militarization on the US/Mexico Border. Specifically, it details how widely accepted human rights frameworks like freedom of the press and protec…
Unlocking the Mystery of Dialect B
This article addresses incipient/aI/-raising in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Acoustic analysis of word list data from 27 participants targets both typical items (e.g., write, writing) and monomorphemic trochaic words often overlooked in previous research (e.g., Nike, bison, cyber, tiger). It reports four major/aI/production patterns in the Fort Wayne data, which range on a continuum from no/aI/-raising to phonological raising of/aI/(i.e., raising before …
Drumming and digital inclusion: Music, identity formation, and transformative empowerment in Afro-Brazilian community development NGOs
This article draws upon music training programmes developed by Afro-Brazilian activists in the city of Salvador, Bahia, as a strategy for connecting training in musical production with computer skills. Though a seemingly incongruous pairing, we argue that for Afro-Brazilian young people learning how to create music helps provide a sense of cultural identity and consciousness that helps them then move into learning about technology. This two-step …
What does incipient /ay/-raising look like: A response to Josef Fruehwald
In examining the history of /ay/-raising before voiceless consonants in Philadelphia, Josef Fruehwald (2016) concludes that either categorical phonological conditioning was present from the very onset of this phonetic change, or the period of purely phonetic conditioning was too brief to be identified. This is based on the observation that raising is phonological in the Philadelphia data: it occurs before voiced flaps that are underlyingly voicel…
Phonetics versus phonology: English word final /s/ in Korean loanword phonology
Korean partial reduplication reconsidered
La Gordiloca and the vicissitudes of social media journalism on the U.S. – Mexico border
This article draws on the case of La Gordiloca, a Facebook-based journalist from Laredo, TX, to interrogate the increasing role of social media within news-making processes. Applauded by The New York Times as a paragon of twenty-first century journalism and under scrutiny from local businesses and law enforcement for defamation and misuse of official information, she occupies a space between digital journalist and social media celebrity. Combinin…
Universal markedness in gradable adjectives revisited: The morpho-semantics of the positive form in Arabic
Citizen Health Journalism: Negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers
This article discusses an innovative experiment in transforming citizen journalism from a general discourse to a specific set of criteria that can be reproduced in classroom settings. Specifically, it discusses how the Rio de Janeiro-based non-governmental organization Viva Rio created a set of classes called Citizen Health Journalism that attempted to train community health workers (titled “health agents”) in the technical and philosophical dime…
On the role of margin phonotactics in Colloquial Bamana complex syllables
Bondu-so vowel harmony: A descriptive analysis with theoretical implications
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the [ATR] vowel harmony system of Bondu-so (Dogon, Mali), a previously undocumented language. Data come from fieldwork and have not yet been published. While Bondu-so has seven surface vowels, namely, two [+ATR, +high] vowels ([i], [u]), a [–ATR +low] vowel [a] and a [±ATR] contrast in the mid vowels with front [e]/[ɛ] and back [o]/[ɔ], there is evidence for a more abstract vowel system phonologically…
A construction approach to innovative verbs in Japanese
Innovative verbs in Japanese are formed from nouns of various sources including loanwords, Sino-Japanese nouns, mimetics, and proper names. Regardless of their different origin, these innovative denominal verbs exhibit a collection of intriguing properties, ranging from phonological, morphological, to semantic and pragmatic. These properties are not strictly predictable from the component parts including the nature of the parent noun and verbal m…
Language games, segment imposition, and the syllable
Language games in which the phonological forms of words are systematically altered have been well-studied from a typological perspective. The two most common types of language games entail the transposition of phonological constituents (usually syllables) and the addition of phonemes at one or more locations within the word. Here we examine the latter type, proposing a novel distinction between insertion-type games and imposition-type games (exem…
The Accent of Long Nominal Compounding in Tokyo Japanese
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The History of Hebrew Plene Spelling . Werner Weinberg
Stress on Second Conjugation Infinitives in Italian
Syllable onsets as a factor in stress rules
One of the common assumptions of standard metrical phonology (Hayes 1981) is that rules of stress placement do not refer to the weight or nature of syllable onsets. This is most clearly stated in Halle & Vergnaud (1980:93): ‘in all languages known to us, stress assignment rules are sensitive to the structure of the syllable rime, but disregard completely the character of the onset’. This assumption has been attacked by both Davis (1982, 1985a, b)…
On a non-argument for the Rhyme
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Vowel length and closure duration in word-medial VC sequences
The location of the feature [continuant] in feature geometry
Italian onset structure and the distribution of il and lo
Verb reduplication in Swati
On the status of onglides in American English
In many languages the issue arises as to whether an onglide patters as part of the syllable onset or forms the first part of a (rising) diphthong with the immediately following vowel. If it is part of the syllable onset, the structure of a CGV syllable would be as in (1), but if it forms the first part of a diphthong the structure of a CGV syllable could either be as in (2a) with a monomoraic diphthong (where the glide is ‘co-moraic’ with the fol…
On Root Structure and the Destiny of the Latin Second Conjugation
A Prosodic Template in Historical Change: The Passage of the Latin Second Conjugation into Romance
Korean partial reduplication reconsidered
The Syllable Contact Constraint in Korean: An Optimality-Theoretic Analysis
On the representation of initial geminates
Hume et al. (1997) argue that in Leti, an Austronesian language spoken on Leti Island off the coast of East Timor, geminate consonants are not moraic. In particular, they focus much of their attention on the word- initial geminates of Leti, which are syllable-initial when they begin a phrase. They argue that Leti initial geminates cannot be moraic and are instead best represented as in (1), with a single root node linked to two X- slots. (The exa…
Some analytical issues in Optimality Theory
One important breakthrough of optimality theory involves the formal analysis of the functional unity of phonological processes. Rule-based theories have no formal means of accounting for why diverse processes in a single language may conspire to have output forms meet a specific phonological shape or characteristic. I will illustrate how optimality theory can account for a functional conspiracy by considering in detail syllable contact phenomena …
Language games, segment imposition, and the syllable
Language games in which the phonological forms of words are systematically altered have been well-studied from a typological perspective. The two most common types of language games entail the transposition of phonological constituents (usually syllables) and the addition of phonemes at one or more locations within the word. Here we examine the latter type, proposing a novel distinction between insertion-type games and imposition-type games (exem…
Arabic Hypocoristics and the Status of the Consonantal Root
There is currently a controversy regarding the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root in the Semitic languages. Bat-El (1994) and Ratcliffe (1997) have argued against the lexical status of the consonantal root in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. However, Prunet, Béland, and Idrissi (2000) present Arabic aphasic evidence supporting the lexical (morphemic) status of the consonantal root for Arabic. In this article we offer supporting ev…
Syllable Structure for an Artificial Language Based on Universal Principles
This paper discusses the types of syllables that should be found in a spoken artificial language based on the common types of syllables found in natural languages. The paper also examines the various units within the syllable, such as onset,nucleus ,and coda,suggesting how the preferred structure of these units maybe incorporated into an artificial language. One proposal that will emerge is that an artificial language needs to allow for at least …
Split Margin Approach to Syllable Structure
In this paper we focus on the similarities tying together the second segment of an onset cluster and a singleton coda segment. We offer a proposal based on Baertsch (2002) accounting for this similarity and show how it captures a number of observations which have defied previous explanation. In accounting for the similarity of patterning between the second member of an onset and a coda consonant, we propose to augment Prince & Smolensky's (P&S, 1…
Interaction of nasal substitution and reduplication in Ponapean
Of particular interest in this paper are cases [...] which illustrate the phenomenon of nasal substitution whereby a nasal occurs in the output (shown under 'Surface Reduplication') even though there is no triggering nasal in the input
Is This Negroish or Irish?” African American English, the Antebellum Writings of Francis Lieber, and the Origins Controversy
Research Article| August 01 2003 “IS THIS NEGROISH OR IRISH?” AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH, THE ANTEBELLUM WRITINGS OF FRANCIS LIEBER, AND THE ORIGINS CONTROVERSY STUART DAVIS STUART DAVIS Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2003) 78 (3): 285–306. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-78-3-285 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twit…
The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: An Alignment Approach With Typological Implications
Article The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in American English and Korean: an alignment approach with typological implications was published on May 13, 2003 in the journal Linguistics (volume 41, issue 4)
Phonetics versus phonology: English word final /s/ in Korean loanword phonology
Film Reviews
Justiça, 2003. A film by Maria Ramos. 102 min. Color. Distributed by First Run Icarus Films, 32 Court Street, 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201; Phone (718) 488–8900. http://www.frif.com
Linguistics (38 works) · Philosophy (34 works) · Computer Science (29 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (26 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (18 works) · History (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Mathematics (16 works) · Syllable (15 works)