Brian Hsu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3842395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Hsu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hsu |
| SIGNATURE | HSU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9454-1742 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Universe of Sound
Introduction Historically, astronomy has prioritized visuals to present information, with scientists and communicators overlooking the critical need to communicate astrophysics with blind or low-vision audiences and provide novel channels for sighted audiences to process scientific information. Methods This study sonified NASA data of three astronomical objects presented as aural visualizations, then surveyed blind or low-vision and sighted indiv…
Word order in Cherokee
Although Cherokee is known to show highly flexible clausal word order, the principles that predict speakers' preferences among possible orders are not extensively described. This article presents a new description of the grammatical properties that predict clausal word order in spoken Cherokee, based on a corpus study of word-order variation. Our results show that the placement of nominal expressions relative to verbs, and the relative order of n…
Word order in Cherokee
Coalescence
This article revisits the status of two proposed bundling operations that affect heads: Feature Scattering ( Giorgi and Pianesi 1997 ), which accounts for variation in the distribution of features across functional heads, and M-Merger ( Matushansky 2006 ), which accounts for head adjunction in head movement. While these mechanisms have been situated in the presyntactic lexicon and a postsyntactic module, respectively, I argue that they can receiv…
Cooccurrence of nonarticle determiners as evidence for split DPs and bundled projections
This research report examines crosslinguistic variation in cooccurrence among nonarticle determiners (demonstratives, proper names, pronouns, possessors) and its implications for understanding nominal (DP) structure and its variation. We present data from several language families and show that languages vary in both the number and permitted combinations of nonarticle determiners within a nominal phrase. These patterns provide new evidence that t…
Exceptional prosodification effects revisited in Gradient Harmonic Grammar
This paper presents an analysis of exceptional prosodification effects, in which exceptional lexical items appear to follow a regular pattern that is found in a different prosodic context. These patterns have been analysed as cases of prosodic prespecification, where morphemes select a non-default prosodic representation. I argue that prespecification approaches should be reconsidered, and that such patterns are predicted without morpheme-specifi…
Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation
This paper discusses three basic ways in which loanwords pattern differently than native vocabulary, with a particular focus on the implicational relationships that hold among generalizations that apply at different degrees of nativization. We argue that the overall typology and the effects of the core-periphery structure are best modeled if constraints are weighted as in Harmonic Grammar (Legendre, Miyata & Smolensky 1990), and violation scores …
Information Structure Features and Syntax-prosody Mapping of Bangla Embedded Clauses
[Abstract not available]
Unifying Phonotactics and Derived Environment Blocking through Prosodic Constraint Indexation
This paper presents a theory of prosodic constraint indexation that derives the blocking of markedness-reducing processes at prosodic and morphological junctures. The principle claim is that markedness constraints are indexed to prosodic categories, and are violated only when a marked structure is fully contained within the span of the indexed constituent. The interaction of prosodically-indexed constraints with faithfulness constraints accounts …
Coalescence
This article revisits the status of two proposed bundling operations that affect heads: Feature Scattering ( Giorgi and Pianesi 1997 ), which accounts for variation in the distribution of features across functional heads, and M-Merger ( Matushansky 2006 ), which accounts for head adjunction in head movement. While these mechanisms have been situated in the presyntactic lexicon and a postsyntactic module, respectively, I argue that they can receiv…
Unifying Phonotactics and Derived Environment Blocking through Prosodic Constraint Indexation
This paper presents a theory of prosodic constraint indexation that derives the blocking of markedness-reducing processes at prosodic and morphological junctures. The principle claim is that markedness constraints are indexed to prosodic categories, and are violated only when a marked structure is fully contained within the span of the indexed constituent. The interaction of prosodically-indexed constraints with faithfulness constraints accounts …
Information Structure Features and Syntax-prosody Mapping of Bangla Embedded Clauses
[Abstract not available]
Weighted scalar constraints capture the typology of loanword adaptation
This paper discusses three basic ways in which loanwords pattern differently than native vocabulary, with a particular focus on the implicational relationships that hold among generalizations that apply at different degrees of nativization. We argue that the overall typology and the effects of the core-periphery structure are best modeled if constraints are weighted as in Harmonic Grammar (Legendre, Miyata & Smolensky 1990), and violation scores …
Exceptional prosodification effects revisited in Gradient Harmonic Grammar
This paper presents an analysis of exceptional prosodification effects, in which exceptional lexical items appear to follow a regular pattern that is found in a different prosodic context. These patterns have been analysed as cases of prosodic prespecification, where morphemes select a non-default prosodic representation. I argue that prespecification approaches should be reconsidered, and that such patterns are predicted without morpheme-specifi…
Cooccurrence of nonarticle determiners as evidence for split DPs and bundled projections
This research report examines crosslinguistic variation in cooccurrence among nonarticle determiners (demonstratives, proper names, pronouns, possessors) and its implications for understanding nominal (DP) structure and its variation. We present data from several language families and show that languages vary in both the number and permitted combinations of nonarticle determiners within a nominal phrase. These patterns provide new evidence that t…
Coalescence
This article revisits the status of two proposed bundling operations that affect heads: Feature Scattering ( Giorgi and Pianesi 1997 ), which accounts for variation in the distribution of features across functional heads, and M-Merger ( Matushansky 2006 ), which accounts for head adjunction in head movement. While these mechanisms have been situated in the presyntactic lexicon and a postsyntactic module, respectively, I argue that they can receiv…
A Universe of Sound
Introduction Historically, astronomy has prioritized visuals to present information, with scientists and communicators overlooking the critical need to communicate astrophysics with blind or low-vision audiences and provide novel channels for sighted audiences to process scientific information. Methods This study sonified NASA data of three astronomical objects presented as aural visualizations, then surveyed blind or low-vision and sighted indiv…
Word order in Cherokee
Although Cherokee is known to show highly flexible clausal word order, the principles that predict speakers' preferences among possible orders are not extensively described. This article presents a new description of the grammatical properties that predict clausal word order in spoken Cherokee, based on a corpus study of word-order variation. Our results show that the placement of nominal expressions relative to verbs, and the relative order of n…
Word order in Cherokee
Computer Science (9 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Physics (4 works)