Rachel Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3775909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9921-1873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring the need for a social prescribing pathway in an Australian paediatric allied healthcare intake service
Background The social determinants of health (SDH) drive child health inequities. Adverse SDH are experienced at an individual level as unmet social needs. In a paediatric Allied Healthcare system, these unmet social needs are barriers to service access. Evidence Social prescribing offers a promising solution. However, this practice is not routinely implemented in Australia. Objective To determine whether the Routine Identification of Unmet Socia…
Temporal Coordination and Markedness in Moenat Ladin Consonant Clusters
In this paper we examine the phonotactics of consonant clusters in Moenat Ladin in terms of their markedness and temporal coordination. Moenat Ladin word-initial clusters include sibilant-stop (SC), stop-/r/ (Cr), stop-/l/ (Cl), and sibilant-stop-/r/ (SCr). However, despite SC and Cl sequences being well-formed in Moenat, sibilant-stop-/l/ (SCl) clusters are almost entirely unattested. We hypothesize that the rarity of SCl clusters owes to a cumu…
Bawdy City
As the history of capitalism has garnered increased attention over the past decade, scholars of gender and sexuality have found themselves wondering: Where are all the women in the history of capitalism? In Bawdy City, Katie M. Hemphill has crafted a stunning response. While it might be tempting to see prostitution as an illicit and shadowy enterprise—one that exists on the marginal edges of the “real” economy—Hemphill convincingly argues that co…
Ladin, varieties of Val di Fassa
Ladin (ISO 639-3: lld) is a Romance language spoken in the Italian Central-Eastern Alps by a community of about 30,000 speakers (Dell’Aquila 2010). The classification of Ladin within Western Romance has been the subject of a long-lasting scientific and at times ideological debate, particularly because at the end of the 19th century the region was contested between the new-born Italian state and the Habsburg empire. The varieties of Ladin share ph…
A Lookahead Effect in Mbe Reduplication
Various phenomena involving the interaction of reduplication and phonology have been brought to bear on evaluating parallel versus serial theories of phonology. In Base-Reduplicant (BR) Correspondence Theory ( McCarthy and Prince 1995 ), implemented in the classic parallel version of Optimality Theory (P-OT; Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004 ), the mapping from the underlying representation to the surface output is direct, without intermediate stage…
The organisation and structure of rhotics in American English rhymes
Language-specific maximal size restrictions on syllables have been defined using frames such as moraic structure. In General American English, a trimoraic syllable template makes largely successful predictions about contexts where tense/lax vowel contrasts are neutralised, but neutralisation preceding a coda rhotic has not been adequately explained. We attribute the apparent special properties of coda /ɹ/ to two characteristics of its representat…
Articulatory characterization of English liquid-final rimes
Surface Correspondence and Discrete Harmony Triggers
Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). This paper examines implications of partially overlapping harmony patterns for the formal properties of surface correspondence. A novel and unwanted typological prediction of transitive surface correspondence relations with chain-adjacent evaluation of …
On Triggers and Opacity in Coronal Harmony
This study documents and analyzes opacity in the coronal harmony of Kinyar-wanda. This harmony presents several features of interest. First, the existence of opacity in coronal harmony is rare: to the best of our knowledge it has only previ-ously been reported in Sanskrit’s nasal retroflex harmony. In Kinyarwanda the
Yaka Nasal Harmony
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
This thesis explores cross-linguistic variation in nasal harmony.The goal is to unify our understanding of nasal harmony so that patterns across languages conform to one basic character and to examine the wider implications of this account for phonological theory.The analysis builds on generalizations from a comprehensive survey documenting variation in three descriptive sets of segments in nasal harmony: targets, which become nasalized, blockers…
Nonlocal Trigger-Target Relations
This article argues that an approach to unbounded harmony that enforces restrictions only over adjacent elements undergenerates for patterns with nonlocal trigger-target relations. Such patterns may occur even in cases where assimilation propagates locally, as found in Baiyina Oroqen and Mọ̀bà Yorùbá. However, a harmony im(perative that is not restricted to adjacent elements is capable of producing these systems, in which a trigger may be related…
Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory
This article reviews the analysis of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Vowel harmony is a phenomenon in which the vowels in a word or another domain show systematic agreement for some property, such as rounding, backness, height, or ATR quality. Optimality Theory is a framework of generative linguistics in which grammars consist of a hierarchy of constraints on outputs. The treatment of various aspects of harmony systems are discussed, includin…
Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations
January 01 2010 Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations In Special Collection: CogNet Rachel Walker Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (1): 169–179. h…
An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony
Coronal harmony in Kinyarwanda causes alveolar fricatives to become postalveolar preceding a postalveolar fricative within a stem. Alveolar and postalveolar stops, affricates and palatals block coronal harmony, but the flap and non-coronal consonants are reported to be transparent. Kinematic data on consonant production in Kinyarwanda were collected using electromagnetic articulography. The mean angle for the line defined by receivers placed on t…
A Neophyte's Journey through Qualitative Analysis Using Morse's Cognitive Processes of Analysis
In the early stages of her master's thesis the author became increasingly concerned about how she would analyze the data for her planned critical interpretive study. She felt that she needed clear direction about the process of qualitative analysis but found the 'how to' of theory development within qualitative data analysis poorly described and vague. A book chapter by qualitative researcher Janice Morse (1994) provided guidance. In it Morse out…
Weak Triggers in Vowel Harmony
A Typology of Consonant Agreement as Correspondence
This article presents a typology of consonant harmony or LONG DISTANCE CONSONANT AGREEMENT that is analyzed as arisingthroug h correspondence relations between consonants rather than feature spreading. The model covers a range of agreement patterns (nasal, laryngeal, liquid, coronal, dorsal) and offers several advantages. Similarity of agreeing consonants is central to the typology and is incorporated directly into the constraints drivingcorrespo…
Round Licensing, Harmony, and Bisyllabic Triggers inAltaic
Nasal reduplication in Mbe affixation
It is well known that though reduplicative morphemes generally fill their content through copy from a base stem, some also display a portion of fixed material. Understanding the source of such fixed segmentism in reduplication has been a matter of controversy and the subject of ongoing research in phonological theory. A long-standing theoretical approach has attributed any fixed content to prespecified material (Marantz 1982, Yip 1982 and subsequ…
Yaka Nasal Harmony
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Short Report
In this article we consider the relationship between phonetic possibility and phonological permissibility of segment types. We ask (i) are any phonetically impossible segments phonologically permissible? and (ii) are any phonetically possible segments phonologically impermissible? Our main focus is on answering (ii). We analyze the implications of the only relevant case we can find, which is in Cohn's (1990, 1993a) examination of nasality spreadi…
Guaraní Voiceless Stops in Oral versus Nasal Contexts
This acoustic study investigates voiceless stops in Guaraní that are described as transparent to nasal harmony. Voiceless stops in oral versus nasal contexts are examined in relation to theoretical issues of locality and phonetic implementation. First, the oral/nasal and voicing properties of the stops are considered in connection to proposals in phonological theory that feature spreading produces strictly continuous spans of a spreading property…
Secret empire
Journal Article Secret empire: the KGB in Russia today Get access Secret empire: the KGB in Russia today. By Michael J. Waller. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1994. 390pp. Index. £42.50; ISBN 0 8133 2322 3. Pb.: £13.50; ISBN 0 8133 2323 1. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 406–407, https://doi.org/10…
Thinking about Ideology and Method
This article addresses some theoretical problems which arise in a recent article by Joseph Schull on ideology and Soviet-type societies. I argue that the conceptualizations of Marxism-Leninism, ideology, and discourse offered by Schull are unlikely to enhance the study of Soviet ideological practices significantly because Schull's approach is both too essentialist and too general. Schull treats these concepts as unities reducible through proper d…
A Typology of Consonant Agreement as Correspondence
This article presents a typology of consonant harmony or LONG DISTANCE CONSONANT AGREEMENT that is analyzed as arisingthroug h correspondence relations between consonants rather than feature spreading. The model covers a range of agreement patterns (nasal, laryngeal, liquid, coronal, dorsal) and offers several advantages. Similarity of agreeing consonants is central to the typology and is incorporated directly into the constraints drivingcorrespo…
Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
This thesis explores cross-linguistic variation in nasal harmony.The goal is to unify our understanding of nasal harmony so that patterns across languages conform to one basic character and to examine the wider implications of this account for phonological theory.The analysis builds on generalizations from a comprehensive survey documenting variation in three descriptive sets of segments in nasal harmony: targets, which become nasalized, blockers…
Weak Triggers in Vowel Harmony
Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations
January 01 2010 Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations In Special Collection: CogNet Rachel Walker Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (1): 169–179. h…
Marxism–Leninism as Discourse
This article employs a semiotic approach to investigate the meaning of ‘Marxism-Leninism’ with a view to clarifying our understanding of this term. Contrary to conventional interpretations it demonstrates that ‘Marxism-Leninism’ is an empty signifier which is subject to definition on a contemporary basis by the CPSU itself. However, it also demonstrates that ‘Marxism-Leninism’ is the central element in a mechanism of control which bears all the h…
Round Licensing, Harmony, and Bisyllabic Triggers inAltaic
Articulatory characterization of English liquid-final rimes
Short Report
In this article we consider the relationship between phonetic possibility and phonological permissibility of segment types. We ask (i) are any phonetically impossible segments phonologically permissible? and (ii) are any phonetically possible segments phonologically impermissible? Our main focus is on answering (ii). We analyze the implications of the only relevant case we can find, which is in Cohn's (1990, 1993a) examination of nasality spreadi…
Thinking about Ideology and Method
This article addresses some theoretical problems which arise in a recent article by Joseph Schull on ideology and Soviet-type societies. I argue that the conceptualizations of Marxism-Leninism, ideology, and discourse offered by Schull are unlikely to enhance the study of Soviet ideological practices significantly because Schull's approach is both too essentialist and too general. Schull treats these concepts as unities reducible through proper d…
Nonlocal Trigger-Target Relations
This article argues that an approach to unbounded harmony that enforces restrictions only over adjacent elements undergenerates for patterns with nonlocal trigger-target relations. Such patterns may occur even in cases where assimilation propagates locally, as found in Baiyina Oroqen and Mọ̀bà Yorùbá. However, a harmony im(perative that is not restricted to adjacent elements is capable of producing these systems, in which a trigger may be related…
Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory
This article reviews the analysis of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Vowel harmony is a phenomenon in which the vowels in a word or another domain show systematic agreement for some property, such as rounding, backness, height, or ATR quality. Optimality Theory is a framework of generative linguistics in which grammars consist of a hierarchy of constraints on outputs. The treatment of various aspects of harmony systems are discussed, includin…
Guaraní Voiceless Stops in Oral versus Nasal Contexts
This acoustic study investigates voiceless stops in Guaraní that are described as transparent to nasal harmony. Voiceless stops in oral versus nasal contexts are examined in relation to theoretical issues of locality and phonetic implementation. First, the oral/nasal and voicing properties of the stops are considered in connection to proposals in phonological theory that feature spreading produces strictly continuous spans of a spreading property…
A Lookahead Effect in Mbe Reduplication
Various phenomena involving the interaction of reduplication and phonology have been brought to bear on evaluating parallel versus serial theories of phonology. In Base-Reduplicant (BR) Correspondence Theory ( McCarthy and Prince 1995 ), implemented in the classic parallel version of Optimality Theory (P-OT; Prince and Smolensky 1993/2004 ), the mapping from the underlying representation to the surface output is direct, without intermediate stage…
A Neophyte's Journey through Qualitative Analysis Using Morse's Cognitive Processes of Analysis
In the early stages of her master's thesis the author became increasingly concerned about how she would analyze the data for her planned critical interpretive study. She felt that she needed clear direction about the process of qualitative analysis but found the 'how to' of theory development within qualitative data analysis poorly described and vague. A book chapter by qualitative researcher Janice Morse (1994) provided guidance. In it Morse out…
Russia in flux
Journal Article Russia in flux: the political and social consequences of reform Get access Russia in flux: the political and social consequences of reform. Edited by David Lane. Aldershot, Hants: Edward Elgar. 1992. 248pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 1 85278 680 9. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 606–607, h…
What went wrong with perestroika
Journal Article What went wrong with perestroika Get access What went wrong with perestroika. By Marshall I. Goldman. New York, London: W. W. Norton. 1991. 258pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 0 393 03071 7. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Pages 767–768, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622802 Published: 01 October 1992
The glasnost papers
Journal Article The glasnost papers: voices on reform from Moscow Get access The glasnost papers: voices on reform from Moscow. Edited by Andrei Melvilleand Gail W. Lapidus. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1991. 359pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 8133 0921 2.Pb: £11.50; ISBN 0 8311 0922 0. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, O…
Marxism–Leninism as Discourse
This article employs a semiotic approach to investigate the meaning of ‘Marxism-Leninism’ with a view to clarifying our understanding of this term. Contrary to conventional interpretations it demonstrates that ‘Marxism-Leninism’ is an empty signifier which is subject to definition on a contemporary basis by the CPSU itself. However, it also demonstrates that ‘Marxism-Leninism’ is the central element in a mechanism of control which bears all the h…
The glasnost papers
Journal Article The glasnost papers: voices on reform from Moscow Get access The glasnost papers: voices on reform from Moscow. Edited by Andrei Melvilleand Gail W. Lapidus. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1991. 359pp. Index. £27.50; ISBN 0 8133 0921 2.Pb: £11.50; ISBN 0 8311 0922 0. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 67, Issue 4, O…
What went wrong with perestroika
Journal Article What went wrong with perestroika Get access What went wrong with perestroika. By Marshall I. Goldman. New York, London: W. W. Norton. 1991. 258pp. Index. £12.95. ISBN 0 393 03071 7. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Pages 767–768, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622802 Published: 01 October 1992
Russia in flux
Journal Article Russia in flux: the political and social consequences of reform Get access Russia in flux: the political and social consequences of reform. Edited by David Lane. Aldershot, Hants: Edward Elgar. 1992. 248pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 1 85278 680 9. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 606–607, h…
Beyond Stalinism
Journal Article Beyond Stalinism: communist political evolution Get access Beyond Stalinism: communist political evolution. Edited by Ronald J. Hill. London: Cass. 1992. 180pp. Index. £24.00. ISBN 0 7146 3463 8. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 3, July 1993, Page 607, https://doi.org/10.2307/2622398 Published: 01 July 1…
Thinking about Ideology and Method
This article addresses some theoretical problems which arise in a recent article by Joseph Schull on ideology and Soviet-type societies. I argue that the conceptualizations of Marxism-Leninism, ideology, and discourse offered by Schull are unlikely to enhance the study of Soviet ideological practices significantly because Schull's approach is both too essentialist and too general. Schull treats these concepts as unities reducible through proper d…
Secret empire
Journal Article Secret empire: the KGB in Russia today Get access Secret empire: the KGB in Russia today. By Michael J. Waller. Boulder, CO, Oxford: Westview. 1994. 390pp. Index. £42.50; ISBN 0 8133 2322 3. Pb.: £13.50; ISBN 0 8133 2323 1. Rachel Walker Rachel Walker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 406–407, https://doi.org/10…
Short Report
In this article we consider the relationship between phonetic possibility and phonological permissibility of segment types. We ask (i) are any phonetically impossible segments phonologically permissible? and (ii) are any phonetically possible segments phonologically impermissible? Our main focus is on answering (ii). We analyze the implications of the only relevant case we can find, which is in Cohn's (1990, 1993a) examination of nasality spreadi…
Guaraní Voiceless Stops in Oral versus Nasal Contexts
This acoustic study investigates voiceless stops in Guaraní that are described as transparent to nasal harmony. Voiceless stops in oral versus nasal contexts are examined in relation to theoretical issues of locality and phonetic implementation. First, the oral/nasal and voicing properties of the stops are considered in connection to proposals in phonological theory that feature spreading produces strictly continuous spans of a spreading property…
Nasal reduplication in Mbe affixation
It is well known that though reduplicative morphemes generally fill their content through copy from a base stem, some also display a portion of fixed material. Understanding the source of such fixed segmentism in reduplication has been a matter of controversy and the subject of ongoing research in phonological theory. A long-standing theoretical approach has attributed any fixed content to prespecified material (Marantz 1982, Yip 1982 and subsequ…
Yaka Nasal Harmony
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Round Licensing, Harmony, and Bisyllabic Triggers inAltaic
A Typology of Consonant Agreement as Correspondence
This article presents a typology of consonant harmony or LONG DISTANCE CONSONANT AGREEMENT that is analyzed as arisingthroug h correspondence relations between consonants rather than feature spreading. The model covers a range of agreement patterns (nasal, laryngeal, liquid, coronal, dorsal) and offers several advantages. Similarity of agreeing consonants is central to the typology and is incorporated directly into the constraints drivingcorrespo…
Weak Triggers in Vowel Harmony
An articulatory view of Kinyarwanda coronal harmony
Coronal harmony in Kinyarwanda causes alveolar fricatives to become postalveolar preceding a postalveolar fricative within a stem. Alveolar and postalveolar stops, affricates and palatals block coronal harmony, but the flap and non-coronal consonants are reported to be transparent. Kinematic data on consonant production in Kinyarwanda were collected using electromagnetic articulography. The mean angle for the line defined by receivers placed on t…
A Neophyte's Journey through Qualitative Analysis Using Morse's Cognitive Processes of Analysis
In the early stages of her master's thesis the author became increasingly concerned about how she would analyze the data for her planned critical interpretive study. She felt that she needed clear direction about the process of qualitative analysis but found the 'how to' of theory development within qualitative data analysis poorly described and vague. A book chapter by qualitative researcher Janice Morse (1994) provided guidance. In it Morse out…
Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations
January 01 2010 Nonmyopic Harmony and the Nature of Derivations In Special Collection: CogNet Rachel Walker Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Rachel Walker University of Southern California. Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 2010 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.2010 Linguistic Inquiry (2010) 41 (1): 169–179. h…
Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory
This article reviews the analysis of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Vowel harmony is a phenomenon in which the vowels in a word or another domain show systematic agreement for some property, such as rounding, backness, height, or ATR quality. Optimality Theory is a framework of generative linguistics in which grammars consist of a hierarchy of constraints on outputs. The treatment of various aspects of harmony systems are discussed, includin…
On Triggers and Opacity in Coronal Harmony
This study documents and analyzes opacity in the coronal harmony of Kinyar-wanda. This harmony presents several features of interest. First, the existence of opacity in coronal harmony is rare: to the best of our knowledge it has only previ-ously been reported in Sanskrit’s nasal retroflex harmony. In Kinyarwanda the
Yaka Nasal Harmony
Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Aspect (2000)
Nasalization, Neutral Segments and Opacity Effects
This thesis explores cross-linguistic variation in nasal harmony.The goal is to unify our understanding of nasal harmony so that patterns across languages conform to one basic character and to examine the wider implications of this account for phonological theory.The analysis builds on generalizations from a comprehensive survey documenting variation in three descriptive sets of segments in nasal harmony: targets, which become nasalized, blockers…
Nonlocal Trigger-Target Relations
This article argues that an approach to unbounded harmony that enforces restrictions only over adjacent elements undergenerates for patterns with nonlocal trigger-target relations. Such patterns may occur even in cases where assimilation propagates locally, as found in Baiyina Oroqen and Mọ̀bà Yorùbá. However, a harmony im(perative that is not restricted to adjacent elements is capable of producing these systems, in which a trigger may be related…
Surface Correspondence and Discrete Harmony Triggers
Correspondence relations among segments in an output, known as surface correspondence, provide a means for enforcing (dis)agreement among segments (Hansson 2001, Rose & Walker 2004, Bennett 2013). This paper examines implications of partially overlapping harmony patterns for the formal properties of surface correspondence. A novel and unwanted typological prediction of transitive surface correspondence relations with chain-adjacent evaluation of …
The organisation and structure of rhotics in American English rhymes
Language-specific maximal size restrictions on syllables have been defined using frames such as moraic structure. In General American English, a trimoraic syllable template makes largely successful predictions about contexts where tense/lax vowel contrasts are neutralised, but neutralisation preceding a coda rhotic has not been adequately explained. We attribute the apparent special properties of coda /ɹ/ to two characteristics of its representat…
Articulatory characterization of English liquid-final rimes
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