On words and sounds : a selection of papers from the 40th PLM, 2009 / edited by Kamila Debowska-Kozlowska and Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk.

Selected papers from the 40th Poznan Linguistic Meeting, 2009, organised by the School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Includes bibliographical references.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; THE SPEECH-TO-SONG-ILLUSION REVISITED; OCCASIONAL SINGERS SING MORE PROFICIENTLY WHEN MEMORY LOAD IS REDUCED; INTERACTION BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND MELODY; L1 AND L2 PROCESSES IN SPEAKERS WITH SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; LANGUAGE USED BY POLISH AMERICANS; INTERNAL VOWEL ALTERNATION AS CLASSIFICATION IN NOMINAL AND VERBAL SYSTEMS; SOUND CHANGES AND VARIATION IN THE VOWEL SYSTEM OF THE VIENNESE DIALECT; N-WORDS; NOUN CLASS ASSIGNMENT IN SWAHILI VIA BAYESIAN PROBABILITY; ARCHITECTURE OF GRAMMAR AND PHI-FEATURE VALUING IN CLAUSE INITIAL DISCOURSE ELLIPSES

SUBSECTIVITY, MEANING AND SYNTACTIC POSITION INSTANCES OF POSTHEAD MODIFICATION IN RUSSIAN NPS; DISTRIBUTION OF CLASSIFICATORY ADJECTIVES AND GENITIVES IN POLISH NPS; TRANSITIVITY AS A MARKER OF VALUATION; TO INHERIT EVERYTHING

The present volume On Words and Sounds is a collection of selected papers from PLM 2009. The Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM) is an annual international general linguistics conference. The book consists of fifteen articles, each of which can be read separately or in relation to others. The book will definitely appeal to the academic readership interested in linguistic disciplines such as: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and clinical linguistics. Collec...

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