Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The University of Kansas |
| ISSN | 1043-3805 / 2378-7600 |
| Wikidata | Q50497754 |
| OpenAlex | S4210209382 |
| MAG | 4210209382 |
| Website | https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/276 |
| Total publications | 9 |
| Coverage period | 1978 - 2021 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Access | Open Access |
| Indexing | DOAJ indexed |
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics focuses on linguistics, which is a core related area to social anthropology, with linguistic anthropology being a direct subfield. It is a closely cognate venue
Categorization, perception, and language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Gender Studies in Language · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Language and cultural evolution · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Perception of the Salvadoran [sh] and [θ] by L2 Spanish Learners
This paper addresses how adult learners of Spanish at a large US university perceive two common sibilants: [sh] and [θ]. While the L2 perception of these sounds has been thoroughly investigated in many varieties of Spanish, they have yet to be studied in the Salvadoran dialect. The present investigation seeks to fill that gap, and preliminary results show that the intermediate-level learners almost always perceived the full dorso-alveolar [s] cor…
Automated phylogeny of Palaung dialects
Improved methods in automatic cognate detection have recently been used by historical linguists to help determine the subgrouping of a clade of languages or dialects, capitalizing on the efficiency of computers when handling substantial amounts of data. In this paper, 16 Palaung dialects are examined using various methods of automatic cognate detection. Partial (List, 2016) and whole cognate detection are used together with Lexstat and Sound Clas…
Detecting integration of top-down information using the mismatch negativity
The current study utilizes mismatch negativity in the phenomenon of phoneme restoration to investigate the critical debate regarding the integration of top down (lexical) and bottom up (acoustic) processing in spoken word recognition. Phoneme restoration, which occurs when phonemes missing from a speech signal are restored by the brain and may appear to be heard, was examined in a multi-standard oddball paradigm. Participants heard stimuli while …
Application of the Comparative Method to Morpheme-Final Nasals in Nivkh
Following up on recent work, we consider morpheme-final nasals in the Nivkh language family of northeast Asia using the Standard Comparative Method, and attempt to reconstruct the inventory and morphophonemic behavior of morpheme-final nasal phonemes in Proto-Nivkh (PN). Previous work has pointed towards PN nasals at four loci, /*m/, /*n/, /*ɲ/, /*ŋ/, of which at least /*ŋ/ could be phonemically either “strong”, triggering fricatives to surface a…
Endangered Languages Data Summary
The Semantics of 'Come,' 'Go,' and 'Arrive' in Otomanguean Languages
Kuiper and Merrifield (1975) have analyzed Diuxi Mixtec verbs of motion and arrival in terms of the notions "Base," "one-way," and "round trip." This paper compares their analysis with Speck and Pickett's (1976) work on the same domain in Texmelucan Zapotec, and presents an analysis parallel to the latter for Chalcatongo Mixtec. A reanalysis of the Diuxi data along these same lines is then shown to be much more explanatory, and also allows a gene…
Transitive Inflection in (Moses) Columbian Salish
In this paper l I will present a sketch of transitive inflection in Columbian Salish. As used here, 'transitive inflection' will include a number of grammatical categories, such as transitive, transitivizer, control, indirective, causative, object pronoun, and subject pronoun. Control will only be touched on, and left for fuller treatment elsewhere
Theoretical Implications Of The Great Menominee Vowel Shift
I attempt here to detail some of the historical phonology of Menominee, a Central Algonquian language, in a tentative effort to fill in the bare outlines hinted at in Bloomfield 1924 and 1939. The central topic is the development of the Menominee vowel system. The facts appear to suggest that in Menominee and perhaps in Central Algonquian in general, word-initial position is a weak, rather than a strong, phonological position, contrary to a gener…
Towards a Universal for Deictic Verbs of Motion
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Towards a Universal for Deictic Verbs of Motion
Theoretical Implications Of The Great Menominee Vowel Shift
I attempt here to detail some of the historical phonology of Menominee, a Central Algonquian language, in a tentative effort to fill in the bare outlines hinted at in Bloomfield 1924 and 1939. The central topic is the development of the Menominee vowel system. The facts appear to suggest that in Menominee and perhaps in Central Algonquian in general, word-initial position is a weak, rather than a strong, phonological position, contrary to a gener…
Transitive Inflection in (Moses) Columbian Salish
In this paper l I will present a sketch of transitive inflection in Columbian Salish. As used here, 'transitive inflection' will include a number of grammatical categories, such as transitive, transitivizer, control, indirective, causative, object pronoun, and subject pronoun. Control will only be touched on, and left for fuller treatment elsewhere
The Semantics of 'Come,' 'Go,' and 'Arrive' in Otomanguean Languages
Kuiper and Merrifield (1975) have analyzed Diuxi Mixtec verbs of motion and arrival in terms of the notions "Base," "one-way," and "round trip." This paper compares their analysis with Speck and Pickett's (1976) work on the same domain in Texmelucan Zapotec, and presents an analysis parallel to the latter for Chalcatongo Mixtec. A reanalysis of the Diuxi data along these same lines is then shown to be much more explanatory, and also allows a gene…
Endangered Languages Data Summary
Detecting integration of top-down information using the mismatch negativity
The current study utilizes mismatch negativity in the phenomenon of phoneme restoration to investigate the critical debate regarding the integration of top down (lexical) and bottom up (acoustic) processing in spoken word recognition. Phoneme restoration, which occurs when phonemes missing from a speech signal are restored by the brain and may appear to be heard, was examined in a multi-standard oddball paradigm. Participants heard stimuli while …
Application of the Comparative Method to Morpheme-Final Nasals in Nivkh
Following up on recent work, we consider morpheme-final nasals in the Nivkh language family of northeast Asia using the Standard Comparative Method, and attempt to reconstruct the inventory and morphophonemic behavior of morpheme-final nasal phonemes in Proto-Nivkh (PN). Previous work has pointed towards PN nasals at four loci, /*m/, /*n/, /*ɲ/, /*ŋ/, of which at least /*ŋ/ could be phonemically either “strong”, triggering fricatives to surface a…
Perception of the Salvadoran [sh] and [θ] by L2 Spanish Learners
This paper addresses how adult learners of Spanish at a large US university perceive two common sibilants: [sh] and [θ]. While the L2 perception of these sounds has been thoroughly investigated in many varieties of Spanish, they have yet to be studied in the Salvadoran dialect. The present investigation seeks to fill that gap, and preliminary results show that the intermediate-level learners almost always perceived the full dorso-alveolar [s] cor…
Automated phylogeny of Palaung dialects
Improved methods in automatic cognate detection have recently been used by historical linguists to help determine the subgrouping of a clade of languages or dialects, capitalizing on the efficiency of computers when handling substantial amounts of data. In this paper, 16 Palaung dialects are examined using various methods of automatic cognate detection. Partial (List, 2016) and whole cognate detection are used together with Lexstat and Sound Clas…