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Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2023
Abstract While it has largely been taken for granted by most linguists that the relationship between linguistic signifier and signified is arbitrary in nature, a growing number of studies suggest otherwise. In this article, we demonstrate that iconicity in total reduplicative constructions in Nigerian Pidgin is graded in nature, and that ...
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Abstract While it has largely been taken for granted by most linguists that the relationship between linguistic signifier and signified is arbitrary in nature, a growing number of studies suggest otherwise. In this article, we demonstrate that iconicity in total reduplicative constructions in Nigerian Pidgin is graded in nature, and that ...
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2018
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This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years and will not be available until May 2028 at the earliest.
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Modelling linguistic gradience
Studies in Language, 2004Many schools of modern linguistics generally adopt a rigid approach to categorisation by not allowing degrees of form class membership, degrees of resemblance to a prototype or overlaps between categories. This all-or-none conception of categorisation (Bolinger 1961) goes back to Aristotle, and has been pervasive and influential, especially in formal ...
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2006
Abstract This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated.
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Abstract This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phrases, clauses and constructions, and examines how it may be defined and differentiated.
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The gradience of spirantization
Spanish in Context, 2014Most studies to date on the ability of English speakers to produce the Spanish approximants [β̞,ð̞,ɣ̞] have impressionistically looked at the stop-spirant contrast of English-speaking learners of Spanish (e.g. Zampini 1994, Díaz-Campos 2004, Face & Menke 2009), but no known study has empirically studied the degree to which these learners are able ...
Brandon M.A. Rogers, Scott M. Alvord
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2006
Abstract The two views expressed above show the differences in opinion regarding linguistic categorization. The quotation from Bolinger recognizes the fact that the elements of language cannot artificially and rigidly be forced within certain predefined bounds.
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Abstract The two views expressed above show the differences in opinion regarding linguistic categorization. The quotation from Bolinger recognizes the fact that the elements of language cannot artificially and rigidly be forced within certain predefined bounds.
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2006
Abstract In this chapter I will discuss gradience obtaining either within a particular construction-type (Subsective Constructional Gradience) or between two different syntactic constructions (Intersective Constructional Gradience), including clauses.
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Abstract In this chapter I will discuss gradience obtaining either within a particular construction-type (Subsective Constructional Gradience) or between two different syntactic constructions (Intersective Constructional Gradience), including clauses.
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2006
Abstract Subsective Gradience (SG) is the phenomenon whereby a particular set of elements displays a categorial shading in prototypicality from a central core to a more peripheral boundary. We can contrast Subsective Gradience with Intersective Gradience (IG): whereas with SG elements from only one category are involved, with IG there ...
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Abstract Subsective Gradience (SG) is the phenomenon whereby a particular set of elements displays a categorial shading in prototypicality from a central core to a more peripheral boundary. We can contrast Subsective Gradience with Intersective Gradience (IG): whereas with SG elements from only one category are involved, with IG there ...
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2006
Abstract Recall that at the end of Chapter 3 I introduced the notion of IG as follows: IG involves two form class categories a and b, and obtains where there exists a set g of elements characterized by of a subset of a-like properties and a subset of b-like properties.
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Abstract Recall that at the end of Chapter 3 I introduced the notion of IG as follows: IG involves two form class categories a and b, and obtains where there exists a set g of elements characterized by of a subset of a-like properties and a subset of b-like properties.
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Gradience, gradualness and grammaticalization
2010This volume is intended to address three questions: (1) How are we to understand the intersection between synchronic gradience and grammaticalization? (2) What insights does grammaticalization offer for assessing the validity of Aarts’s (2007a) claims regarding synchronic gradience, specifically that there is a significant distinction between ...
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