Christina Tortora
Biographic Data
| ID | 984386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina Tortora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tortora |
| SIGNATURE | TORTORA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English
This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—fronting of too, raising of price and face, and lowering of bad, thought, and dress—co-occur across speakers and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation. It reports on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers, which suggests that patterns of covariation across speak…
Aspects of change in New York City English short-a
This article focuses on change in the “short-a system” of New York City English (NYCE). Recent results suggest that a complex set of tensing rules traditionally described for NYCE are being replaced by several simpler systems. This article reports on a study of this change using a recently developed large audio-aligned parsed speech corpus (CoNYCE). This change is similar to the simplification reported for Philadelphia by Labov et al. (2016). Unl…
Negation in Non-Standard Varieties
This chapter discusses the relevance of data from non-standard varieties to our understanding of natural language negation, and in particular, to theories which seek to model and explain natural language properties. The chapter focuses specifically on the different types of Negative Concord exhibited in non-standard Englishes, in West Flemish, and in Romance varieties, showing that in relation to Standard English, Standard Dutch, and Standard Fre…
Romance Parsed Corpora: Editors’ introduction
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Heritage nation vs heritage language: Towards a more nuanced rhetoric of ‘heritage’ in Italian language pedagogy
Language programs in the US frequently invoke the notion of heritage in order to spark student interest in language learning. The idea is that acquisition of a particular language can connect a student to their past in ways that can empower them and give them a richer appreciation of their own ethnic background. This article addresses this ‘appeal to heritage’ approach to the promotion of language learning, in relation to Italian. I discuss the d…
Subject agreement variation: Support for the configurational approach
Data and grammar: Means and individuals
1. Introduction In the abstract of his target piece, Featherston states that ‘it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements’. In our commentary, we focus on this issue and on (what we perceive to be) Featherston's claims that individual speakers' judgments are intrinsically unreliable and ‘noisy’, that variation among individuals' judgments should be smoothed out by averaging the …
The Case of Appalachian Expletivethey
This article examines Appalachian English existentials, which employ they as the so-called “expletive” (e.g., They is a big creek yet). Given the morphological identity of expletive they with the third-person plural pronoun (e.g., They are happy), the question arises as to why the verb appears in the singular form in the existential despite the expletive's apparent plurality; this question arises in light of Cardinaletti (1997), who observes that…
Two types of possessive forms in English
The syntax of Italian dialects
Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect
Aspects of Locative Doubling and Resultative Predication
Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases
April 01 1998 Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases In Special Collection: CogNet Christina M. Tortora Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 …
Subject agreement variation: Support for the configurational approach
Two types of possessive forms in English
Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect
Aspects of change in New York City English short-a
This article focuses on change in the “short-a system” of New York City English (NYCE). Recent results suggest that a complex set of tensing rules traditionally described for NYCE are being replaced by several simpler systems. This article reports on a study of this change using a recently developed large audio-aligned parsed speech corpus (CoNYCE). This change is similar to the simplification reported for Philadelphia by Labov et al. (2016). Unl…
The Case of Appalachian Expletivethey
This article examines Appalachian English existentials, which employ they as the so-called “expletive” (e.g., They is a big creek yet). Given the morphological identity of expletive they with the third-person plural pronoun (e.g., They are happy), the question arises as to why the verb appears in the singular form in the existential despite the expletive's apparent plurality; this question arises in light of Cardinaletti (1997), who observes that…
Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases
April 01 1998 Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases In Special Collection: CogNet Christina M. Tortora Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 …
Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English
This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—fronting of too, raising of price and face, and lowering of bad, thought, and dress—co-occur across speakers and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation. It reports on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers, which suggests that patterns of covariation across speak…
Heritage nation vs heritage language: Towards a more nuanced rhetoric of ‘heritage’ in Italian language pedagogy
Language programs in the US frequently invoke the notion of heritage in order to spark student interest in language learning. The idea is that acquisition of a particular language can connect a student to their past in ways that can empower them and give them a richer appreciation of their own ethnic background. This article addresses this ‘appeal to heritage’ approach to the promotion of language learning, in relation to Italian. I discuss the d…
Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases
April 01 1998 Verbs of Inherently Directed Motion Are Compatible with Resultative Phrases In Special Collection: CogNet Christina M. Tortora Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Christina M. Tortora University of Michigan Online ISSN: 1530-9150 Print ISSN: 0024-3892 © 1998 Massachusetts Institute of Technology1998 Linguistic Inquiry (1998) 29 …
Aspects of Locative Doubling and Resultative Predication
Romance Enclisis, Prepositions, and Aspect
The syntax of Italian dialects
Two types of possessive forms in English
The Case of Appalachian Expletivethey
This article examines Appalachian English existentials, which employ they as the so-called “expletive” (e.g., They is a big creek yet). Given the morphological identity of expletive they with the third-person plural pronoun (e.g., They are happy), the question arises as to why the verb appears in the singular form in the existential despite the expletive's apparent plurality; this question arises in light of Cardinaletti (1997), who observes that…
Data and grammar: Means and individuals
1. Introduction In the abstract of his target piece, Featherston states that ‘it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements’. In our commentary, we focus on this issue and on (what we perceive to be) Featherston's claims that individual speakers' judgments are intrinsically unreliable and ‘noisy’, that variation among individuals' judgments should be smoothed out by averaging the …
Subject agreement variation: Support for the configurational approach
Heritage nation vs heritage language: Towards a more nuanced rhetoric of ‘heritage’ in Italian language pedagogy
Language programs in the US frequently invoke the notion of heritage in order to spark student interest in language learning. The idea is that acquisition of a particular language can connect a student to their past in ways that can empower them and give them a richer appreciation of their own ethnic background. This article addresses this ‘appeal to heritage’ approach to the promotion of language learning, in relation to Italian. I discuss the d…
Romance Parsed Corpora: Editors’ introduction
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Negation in Non-Standard Varieties
This chapter discusses the relevance of data from non-standard varieties to our understanding of natural language negation, and in particular, to theories which seek to model and explain natural language properties. The chapter focuses specifically on the different types of Negative Concord exhibited in non-standard Englishes, in West Flemish, and in Romance varieties, showing that in relation to Standard English, Standard Dutch, and Standard Fre…
Aspects of change in New York City English short-a
This article focuses on change in the “short-a system” of New York City English (NYCE). Recent results suggest that a complex set of tensing rules traditionally described for NYCE are being replaced by several simpler systems. This article reports on a study of this change using a recently developed large audio-aligned parsed speech corpus (CoNYCE). This change is similar to the simplification reported for Philadelphia by Labov et al. (2016). Unl…
Cross-Speaker Covariation across Six Vocalic Changes in New York City English
This article examines differences in the way that innovative variants for six vocalic changes in New York City English—fronting of too, raising of price and face, and lowering of bad, thought, and dress—co-occur across speakers and explores social correlates of these patterns of covariation. It reports on an analysis of a recently developed corpus of conversational speech from 140 speakers, which suggests that patterns of covariation across speak…
Linguistics (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (8 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · History (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works)