ASRU05.pdfDiesingWandW.pdfsp2002.pdfTib.pdfVietnamese_tonogenesis.pdfHere is my linguistics mirror. Basically, I keep lots of files here, mostly pdfs, of linguistic interest, for the use of the general public. Contact me if you have found something good to put up here - or if there are copyright issues with any of the papers here.
| Filename | Title | Author(s) | Comments |
| ASRU05.pdf | Detection of Questions in Chinese Conversational Speech | Jiahong Yuan & Dan Jurafsky | |
| DiesingWandW.pdf | How To Do Things With Words and Wands: The Pragmatics of Casting Spells | Molly Diesing | Yes, this really is an analysis of Harry Potter. No, it's not serious. |
| sp2002.pdf | Comparison of Declarative and Interrogative Intonation in Chinese | Jiahong Yuan, Chilin Shih, & Greg P Kochanski | |
| Tib.pdf | Some Aspects of Tibetan (Lhasa) Phonology | Hongyuan Dong | |
| Vietnamese_tonogenesis.pdf | Vietnamese and tonogenesis: revising the model and analysis | Graham Thurgood | |
| SystematicSoundChangeExperiment.pdf | The Nature of Systematic Sound Change - An Experiment | Peter Graff | An MA dissertation. |
| Anyanwu.pdf | On the manifestation of stress in African languages | Rose-Juliet Anyanwu | |
| Casasanto_CogSci_2004.pdf | How deep are effects of language on thought? Time estimation in speakers of English, Indonesian, Greek, and Spanish | Daniel Casasanto, Lera Boroditsky, Webb Phillips, Jesse Greene, Shima Goswami, Simon Bocanegra-Thiel, Ilia Santiago-Diaz, Olga Fotokopoulu, Ria Pita, & David Gil | |
| 2003bigbang.pdf | Reconsidering the Canons of Sound-Change: Towards a �Big Bang� Theory | Richard D. Janda & Brian D. Joseph | |
| Gonzales_SA_Languages.pdf | A Typology of Stops in South American Indian languages | Hebe González | |
| kordiph.pdf | Structured Imbalances in the Emergence of the Korean Vowel System | Sang-Cheol Ahn & Gregory K. Iverson | |
| ICSLP2006_Nielsen.pdf | Specificity and Generalizability of Spontaneous Phonetic Imitation | Kuniko Y. Nielsen | When I heard about this article my jaw literally dropped. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. |
| McGurk.pdf | A constraint-based explanation of the McGurk effect | Paul Boersma | |
| kr-jp-languageTxt.pdf | Aspects of the Genetic Relationship of the Korean and Japanese Languages | Barbara E Riley | Another PhD dissertation, suggesting a close relationship between Korean and Japanese and positing a proto-language. |
| sst2004-410.pdf | Tonal Activity in Kara, an Austronesian language spoken in New Britain | John Hajek & Mary Stevens | |
| zp37-downing.pdf | What African Languages Tell Us About Accent Typology | Laura J. Downing | |
| GLOWHdt.pdf | Sibilant Harmony in Kinyarwanda and Coronal Opacity | Fidèle Mpiranya & Rachel Walker | |
| remijsen&manyang.pdf | Luanyjang Dinka | Bert Remijsen & Caguor Adong Manyang | |
| TOC.pdf | Selective Human Involvement in Statistical Machine Translation | Chris Callison-Burch | |
| tices_50.pdf | Survey of the Indus Script | Asko Parpola | |
| soundChange.pdf | Sound Change in Functional Phonology | Paul Boersma | "Sound systems may never stop changing, not even if only internal factors are present, because there may always be a better system. Non-teleological random variation of constraint ranking defines a pressure that explains the existence of perpetually rotating cycles of sound changes." |
| Paper2.pdf | BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation | Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, ToddWard, and Wei-Jing Zhu | This evaluation method is the one most commonly used by computational linguists today. |
| Language80.pdf | Explaining final obstruent devoicing in Lezgian: Phonetics and History | Alan C L Yu | |
| HdtScheer.pdf | How non-phonological information is processed in phonology | Tobias Scheer | This is subtitled "A historical survey from Trubetzkoy to OT and Distributed Morphology". |
| HdtintroOT.pdf | Optimality Theory | Marc van Oostendorp | A comprehensive introduction to one of modern linguistic's most exciting theories. |
| Hdtcolours.pdf | A theory of morphosyntactic colours | Marc van Oostendorp | |
| contourtones.pdf | A Typology Of Contour Tone Restrictions | Matthew Gordon | A statistical survey of the use of contour tones across languages, and suggests phonetic motivations for the tonal hierarchy. |
| Bloomfield_Algonquian.pdf | Algonquian | Leonard Bloomfield | A comprehensive grammar of the algonquian language. Warning! This file is 55mb! Download it to disk, do not attempt to open it from my server. |
| 1999_07.pdf | Explaining a violation of the sonority hierarchy: stop place perception in adjacent [s] | Olle Engstrand & Christine Ericsdotter | Proposes that acoustic information from stops is encoded in the preceding [s], thus giving a perceptual advantage to such structures. Features experimental data. |
| Off-Site | Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia | Alan Dench | I don't host this on my site, you need to request it from the author. |
| Arrernte.pdf | Arrernte: A Language with No Syllable Onsets | Gavan Breen & Rob Pensalfini | An analysis of syllabification in a language from Alice Springs, Australia comes to a startling conclusion. |
| idioms.pdf | Idioms | Geoggrey Numberg, Ivan A Sag & Thomas Wasow | Classic journal article on analysis of idioms. |
| litloe.pdf | Language in the Light of Evolution: Volume 1, The Origins of Meaning | James R Hurford | Draft copy of a book on semantics and language evolution. It has a 41-page bibliography. |
| numsys.pdf | Numeral Systems | James R Hurford | An overview of numeral systems in language. |
| Sinha.pdf | Time in the Amondawa Language and Culture | Vera da Silva Sinha, Jörg Zinken, Wany Sampaio & Chris Sinha | An overview of a lecture given on a language and culture that does not use cardinal chronologies. |
| TEX_POP1.pdf | A Survey of Texistepec Popoluca Verbal Morphology - Chapters 1-3 | Ehren Michael Reilly | "This work is a study of two major aspects of the verbal morphology of the Texistepec Popoluca language: valence-changing verb derivation and verb inflection." A good read. |
| TEX_POP2.pdf | A Survey of Texistepec Popoluca Verbal Morphology - Chapters 4-5 plus Appendices | Ehren Michael Reilly | The second half of the above text. |
| universals.pdf | Deriving Greenberg's Universal 20 and Its Exceptions | Guglielmo Cinque | An overview of attested and unattested element order, presenting a new universal hypothesis. |
| WICHMANN.pdf | A cross-linguistically rare case system in Tlapanec | Sören Wichmann | |
| GREEN.PDF | The Stress Window in Pirahã: A Reanalysis of Rhythm in Optimality Theory | Thomas Green | Attempts to resolve the complicated issue of Pirahã stress through the use of optimality theory. |
| GYGrammar1.pdf | Guugu Yimidhirr: Grammar Sketch | John Haviland | Part one of a grammar sketch of the Australian language Guugu Yimidhirr, scanned directly from the Handbook of Australian Languages, Vol 1. |
| GYGrammar2.pdf | Guugu Yimidhirr: Grammar Sketch | John Haviland | Part two of the above grammar. |
| pronborr.pdf | Pronoun Borrowing | Sarah G. Thomason & Daniel L. Everett | A short piece on the theory of language contact, pronoun borrowing in particular. |
| PhoneticStructure.pdf | Representing phonetic structure (draft) | Peter Ladefoged | The first two chapters of a book on how to best represent the linguistic aspects of speech, and the relationship between phonetics and phonology, by the late Peter Ladefoged. |
| 001.PDF | Clicks and the idea of a human protolanguage | Hartmaut Traunmüller | A short paper challenging the theory that a human protolanguage featured click consonants. |
| 01637.PDF | Contrastive Lateral Clicks and Variation in Click Types | Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen & Bonny E. Sands | A short paper on a new click discovered, "a forward released denti-alveolar lateral click". |
| ACTIVE.PDF | Active Languages | Daniel Andréasson | Very interesting thesis on Agent/Patient marking in active languages. |
| AGLIDE01.PDF | /a/ glide in Sino-Tibetan | Martine Mazaudon | Discussion of some Sino-Tibetan languages that ignore the sonority hierarchy and have non-syllabic /a/; also lots of good information on vowel phonetics. |
| assonances.pdf | Phonosemantic Coherence in English Assonances | John Lawler | Short list of English consonant clusters and their associated semantic connotations. |
| CLS97.PDF | Why Statistical Universals are Better than Absolute Universals | Matthew S. Dryer | |
| Consonants.pdf | Phonology of Semitic Languages: Consonants | University of Western Australia | Lecture notes, with interesting correspondences lists. |
| Vowels.pdf | Phonology of Semitic Languages: Vowels | University of Western Australia | Lecture notes, with interesting correspondences lists. |
| CULTGRAM.PDF | Cultural Constraints on Grammar and Cognition in Pirahã: Another Look at the Design Features of Human Language | Daniel L. Everett | An overview of the uniqueness of Pirahã language and culture, and what implications this has for the Hockett's "Design Features". |
| dissA-prelim.pdf | The Medial Systems of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan - Front Matter | Zev Joseph Handel | This is the front matter (contents, acknowledgements, etc) to the dissertation below. |
| dissB-text.pdf | The Medial Systems of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan - Main Text | Zev Joseph Handel | At a whopping 381 pages, this dissertation attempts to resolve questions dealing with Old Chinese medial consonants, and suggests that Old Chinese was sesquisyllabic. Some proposals are made on the nature of Proto-Sino-Tibetan. |
| dissC-ref.pdf | The Medial Systems of Old Chinese and Proto-Sino-Tibetan - References | Zev Joseph Handel | The references to the dissertation. |
| DryerClausetypes.pdf | Clause Types | Matthew S. Dryer | A very full discussion of various clause types covering both verbal and non-verbal predicates. |
| greenlandic.pdf | West Greenlandic noun incorporation in a monohierarchical theory of grammar | Robert Malouf | |
| Gronemeyer.pdf | Noun incorporation in Hopi | Claire Gronemeyer | |
| Haud_Yer_Tongue.pdf | Haud Yer Tongue | Channel 4 Television Corporation (Liz Niven, ed. Anne Fleck) | A teachers' guide, which accompanies a TV programme of the same name, to facilitate teaching English/Scots bilingual 10-14 year olds about the Scots Lanauage. |
| Howe2000.pdf | Oowekyala Segmental Phonology | Darin Mathew Howe | Long (over 200 pages) and complex PhD dissertation of a nearly-extinct Canadian language. |
| LgUniv.2a.ColorsVowels.pdf | Color terms and vowel dispersion | Paul Hagstrom | Lecture notes on colour universals in language. |
| lrec2-romani.pdf | A Corpus of Written Finnish Romani Texts | Lars Borin | This is actually only a description of the Corpus, which (at the time of writing) is still being compiled. Interesting reading nonetheless. |
| MAGIC.PDF | The Magic Sheet | University of Virginia | A colour-coded chart with all the major Old English inflections. An excellent learning aid. |
| Makbeth.pdf | Macbeth | Scottish Language Dictionaries | School excercise for over-14s, includes some text in Scots and suggests it was an inspiration for Shakespeare. |
| MARLYS~1.PDF | On the Nature of Pro-drop in Capeverdean Creole | Marlyse Bapista | |
| mazgr.pdf | Historical Grammar of Old Prussian | Vytautas Mažiulus | Translation from Lithuainian and comments by Dr Letas Palmaitis. |
| MOJunker_2004_Lingua.pdf | Focus, Obviation, and word order in East Cree | Marie-Odile Junker | "The goal of this paper is to show that the word order of a non-configurational language can be sensitive to the grammatical encoding of (non)topicality or obviation." |
| morphosyntax.PDF | Sidelights on Old Chinese morphosyntax | W. Behr | Handouts from a talk given at a conference. |
| NE-GOT.PDF | Neuenglisch-gotisches Wörterbuch | Gerhard Köbler | A Modern English/Gothic dictionary. |
| PALIGRAM.PDF | Practical Grammar of the Pali Language | Charles Duroiselle | |
| PANTHER.PDF | Killing the Panther | ʔahóápati (Simão) | Collected, translated, analyzed, and transcribed by Daniel L. Everett. A story in Pirahã. |
| phonum04.47.pdf | Why are clicks so exclusive? | Olle Engstrand | This paper suggests reasons why click consonants are largely restricted to Southern Africa. |
| pirahanumerals.pdf | On the absence of number and numerals in Pirahã | Daniel L. Everett | |
| pitch-accent-kluw.pdf | Evolutionary typology and Scandinavian pitch accent | Patrik Bye | |
| PPN.PDF | Reconstructing Proto-Polynesian (PPN) | Irwin J. Howard & Byron W. Bender | An excercise for linguistics students at the University of Hawai'i; an excellent introduction to the principles of the comparative method. |
| psedo-incorporation.pdf | A Semantics for Pseudo Incorporation | Veneeta Dayal | |
| QCRO.PDF | Quantitative Consequences of Rhythmic Organization | Alan Prince | |
| Rariteiten.pdf | Das Grammatische Raritätenkabinett | Frans Plank | An extremely interesting collection of rare linguistic phenomena, some of which contravene previously held "universals". |
| relatives.pdf | On the interaction of adjectival modifiers and relative clauses | Caroline Heycock | |
| SILEWP2001-003.pdf | A Description of Teribe Phonology | Perry J. Oakes | This language from Panama has interesting interplays of stress and tone, and the nasality is interesting too. Also, a rare phoneme: a prelabialised retroflexed lateral flap. |
| tagalog_Curzon.pdf | Tagalog | Nikolaus P. Himmelmann | A basic outline grammar of Tagalog. |
| TD_Tib_Signs3.pdf | Tibetan and Bhutanese Marks and Signs for Inclusion Into Tibetan Unicode 3.0 | Tony Duff | Proposed symbols needed for Tibetan that are missing from unicode. Some of the symbols are very aesthetically pleasing. |
| TheTaillOfThePaddokAndTheMous.pdf | The Taill Of The Paddok And The Mous | Robert Henryson | A Scots poem, with some questions at the end for schoolkids. |
| Tibetan_language.pdf | Tibetan Language for Beginners | Silvia Vernetto (with the collaboration of Tenzin Norbu) | Instruction in basic Tibetan, for non-linguists. |
| tibeto-burman.pdf | Word Order in Tibeto-Burman Languages | Matthew S. Dryer | |
| TundraYukaghir.pdf | ? | Elena Maslova(?) | A comprehensive grammar of the Tundra (Northern) Yukaghir language |
| word.order.shopen.pdf | Word Order | Matthew S. Dryer | A 62-page overview of the basic methods of constituent order in the world's languages. |
| ZPCliticsInfl.pdf | Cliticization vs. Inflection: English N'T | Arnold M. Zwicky & Geoffrey K. Pullum | A journal article challenging the commonly held view that English -n't is a clitic. |
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