Gerald McMenamin
Biographic Data
| ID | 9007153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald McMenamin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald |
| FAMILY NAME | McMenamin |
| SIGNATURE | MCMENAMIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jasmine and the Bee
Jasmine was an American seventh grader whose first language (L1) is Punjabi and second language (L2) is English. A good speller, she tied for first place at her regional spelling bee. She maintains that she then correctly spelled the tie-breaking word: tomography . After requesting an instant video replay of her word, the judges declared Jasmine’s spelling incorrect: . We examine three questions: Is Jasmine’s presumed-high word-recognition abilit…
Style markers in authorship studies
The last issue of Forensic Linguistics presented two articles on stylemarker selection in studies of questioned authorship. The first paper (Chaski 2001) represents an interesting approach to marker selection, but two significant weaknesses detract from its purpose: it rejects virtually all previous work in stylistics, hundreds studies representing more than a century of work, as unscientific and irrelevant present forensic needs; and it is found…
Disputed authorship in US Law
The purpose of this note is to recognize the significant contribution of Tiersma and Solan (2002) to forensic linguistics, but to oppose their classification of disputed authorship cases as a ‘problem area’ in the field, that is, which they define as an area of expert linguistic testimony associated with judicial reluctance to admit such testimony. In contrast to their position, I submit that that disputed authorship cases be considered ‘non-prob…
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Disputed authorship in US Law
The purpose of this note is to recognize the significant contribution of Tiersma and Solan (2002) to forensic linguistics, but to oppose their classification of disputed authorship cases as a ‘problem area’ in the field, that is, which they define as an area of expert linguistic testimony associated with judicial reluctance to admit such testimony. In contrast to their position, I submit that that disputed authorship cases be considered ‘non-prob…
Style markers in authorship studies
The last issue of Forensic Linguistics presented two articles on stylemarker selection in studies of questioned authorship. The first paper (Chaski 2001) represents an interesting approach to marker selection, but two significant weaknesses detract from its purpose: it rejects virtually all previous work in stylistics, hundreds studies representing more than a century of work, as unscientific and irrelevant present forensic needs; and it is found…
Jasmine and the Bee
Jasmine was an American seventh grader whose first language (L1) is Punjabi and second language (L2) is English. A good speller, she tied for first place at her regional spelling bee. She maintains that she then correctly spelled the tie-breaking word: tomography . After requesting an instant video replay of her word, the judges declared Jasmine’s spelling incorrect: . We examine three questions: Is Jasmine’s presumed-high word-recognition abilit…
Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Authorship Attribution and Profiling (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work)