Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected Papers from the 34th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, March 2004Randall Scott Gess, Edward J. Rubin The 20 papers in this volume are a selection from those presented at the 34th LSRL, held in Salt Lake City, in 2004. The papers deal with a wide range of theoretical issues in Romance Linguistics and include several from the conference parasession, which focused on experimental approaches to problems in Romance Linguistics. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in current issues in theoretical Romance Linguistics. |
Contents
Determiner Sharing and Cyclicity in WhMovement | 1 |
The Acquisition of Object Clitic Constructions in Romanian | 21 |
Systemic Markedness and Phonetic Detail in Phonology | 41 |
Quantifying Rhythmic Differences Between Spanish English | 63 |
PhoneticallyDriven Epenthesis Asymmetries in French | 77 |
Agree the EPPF and FurtherRaising in Spanish | 97 |
Diminutives in Brazilian Portuguese and OutputOutput | 109 |
Childrens Production and Comprehension of Spanish | 125 |
Licit and Illicit Null Objects in L1 French | 197 |
Sluicing With Copula | 213 |
Romanian NWords and the FiniteNonFinite Distinction | 273 |
Perseverative Phonetic Effects in Bilingual CodeSwitching | 291 |
Evidence for Boundedness | 307 |
Priming in Subject Expression in Colombian Spanish | 329 |
Tonal Levels in Puebla Mexico Spanish Declaratives and Absolute | 351 |
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