Lawrence Solan
Biographic Data
| ID | 754636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Solan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Solan |
| SIGNATURE | SOLAN L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identifying where people come from by how they speak
The Linguist on the Witness Stand
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
Un effet du principe C chez l’enfant francophone
We report a study that tests children’s knowledge of an effect of Principle C of the binding theory: In the adult grammar of English and French, coreference between a main clause object pronoun and a non-pronominal subject of a sentence-final temporal clause is permitted, whereas coreference between a subject pronoun and the subject of a temporal clause is blocked. In an act-out task, both French-speaking adults and children aged 3–7 were found t…
When Judges Use the Dictionary
I HAVE A VAGUE MEMORY OF MISSPELLING view in elementary school and being told by my teacher to look it up in the dictionary. I couldn't find it. Unsympathetic as she was, the teacher eventually broke down and gave me the spelling. Her more or less religious attitude towards dictionaries was not lost on me, however. To the extent I was able, I regularly and obediently turned to the dictionary, which, often enough, taught me very little apart from …
Pronominal Reference
1. An Approach to Language Acquisition.- 1.1. Language Acquisition Research and the Innateness Hypothesis.- 1.2. The Role of Experience.- 1.3. Hypothesis Formation and the Evaluation Metric.- 1.4. Implications for Language Acquisition Research.- Notes.- 2. Structural Restrictions on Pronominal Reference.- 2.1. The Domain of This Study.- 2.2. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Brief History.- 2.3. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Revisio…
The Linguist on the Witness Stand
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
When Judges Use the Dictionary
I HAVE A VAGUE MEMORY OF MISSPELLING view in elementary school and being told by my teacher to look it up in the dictionary. I couldn't find it. Unsympathetic as she was, the teacher eventually broke down and gave me the spelling. Her more or less religious attitude towards dictionaries was not lost on me, however. To the extent I was able, I regularly and obediently turned to the dictionary, which, often enough, taught me very little apart from …
Pronominal Reference
1. An Approach to Language Acquisition.- 1.1. Language Acquisition Research and the Innateness Hypothesis.- 1.2. The Role of Experience.- 1.3. Hypothesis Formation and the Evaluation Metric.- 1.4. Implications for Language Acquisition Research.- Notes.- 2. Structural Restrictions on Pronominal Reference.- 2.1. The Domain of This Study.- 2.2. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Brief History.- 2.3. Structural Restrictions on Anaphora: A Revisio…
When Judges Use the Dictionary
I HAVE A VAGUE MEMORY OF MISSPELLING view in elementary school and being told by my teacher to look it up in the dictionary. I couldn't find it. Unsympathetic as she was, the teacher eventually broke down and gave me the spelling. Her more or less religious attitude towards dictionaries was not lost on me, however. To the extent I was able, I regularly and obediently turned to the dictionary, which, often enough, taught me very little apart from …
Un effet du principe C chez l’enfant francophone
We report a study that tests children’s knowledge of an effect of Principle C of the binding theory: In the adult grammar of English and French, coreference between a main clause object pronoun and a non-pronominal subject of a sentence-final temporal clause is permitted, whereas coreference between a subject pronoun and the subject of a temporal clause is blocked. In an act-out task, both French-speaking adults and children aged 3–7 were found t…
The Linguist on the Witness Stand
It is becoming increasingly common for linguists to testify as expert witnesses in both civil and criminal trials. Often linguistic expertise is clearly helpful to the judge or jury. Based on published judicial opinions, from which we draw our data, it appears that courts have allowed linguists to testify on such issues as the probable origin of a speaker, the comprehensibility of a text, whether a particular defendant understood the Miranda warn…
Identifying where people come from by how they speak
Linguistics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Pronoun (2 works) · Resolution (logic) (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 works)