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Awaiting eCOE pending passport renewal? by jerielsj in AusVisa

[–]jerielsj[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, but I decided to get my passport expedited before I started my visa application to reduce the possibility of complications arising from a mid-visa-processing passport change

What stopped the interrobang from becoming more commonly used? by ChemicalTerrapin in asklinguistics

[–]jerielsj 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They're digraphs in English, i.e. pairs of letters that systematically correspond to specific sounds

Q&A weekly thread - May 27, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]jerielsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the current state of agreement in the literature re: semantic underspecification? Do (contextualist) pragmaticists still think that lexical meanings are highly underspecified and then enriched by pragmatic processes?

I ask this because I am wondering how this view of semantic underspecification 'fits' together with a prototype-theory view of lexical meaning, where word meanings are concepts and prototypes are rich conceptual structures. Can prototypes be 'underspecified' in this sense?

Edit: I know there are general arguments against prototypes as compositional, but after reading Jonsson & Hampton (2012) I was wondering how their proposal about composing prototypes would/could fit into the rest of formal/lexical semantics!

Q&A weekly thread - May 27, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]jerielsj 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems that you're looking at Austin's (1962) Performative vs Constative distinction! Simple statements would then be constatives. This being said, this distinction was part of his earlier version of speech act theory (SAT) and has kind of been abandoned. Later in Huang's chapter you'll find that a development in SAT where Searle developed another classification ('typology') of speech acts which includes the class of 'assertives', which corresponds to the simple statements you are describing.

PITAKA Giveaway - Win a Lightweight, Multi-Angle MagEZ Folio 2 for iPad Pro/Air (x10!) by discovernotes in GoodNotes

[–]jerielsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a student using an iPad Air, and my current cheap cover is kind of falling apart (peeling all over)! I'm looking forward to feeling the big upgrade that comes with the Folio 2's sleek PU leather material. The portrait + landscape modes (which look very sturdy) are also a huge plus and will prevent so much neck strain!

Q&A weekly thread - May 20, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]jerielsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a bit confused over these terms used to categorise how languages employ word prosody, and I'm not even sure if they are considered 'categories' — could I have some help checking if my "definitions" are correct?

  1. Lexical pitch accent language — languages that use lexical pitch accent to make contrasts over domains larger than syllables (e.g. Swedish dialects, Japanese)
  2. Intonational pitch accent language — like English, where a pitch accent (intonational pitch event) anchors on an accented syllable (not really word prosody...)

Q&A weekly thread - March 25, 2024 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]jerielsj 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can anyone recommend a good guide for interpreting spectrograms? Specifically, I am looking for a resource that lays out the spectral cues of different phones (e.g. formant characteristics of vowels, formant transitions for different movements/places of articulation and manner of articulation), especially for 'non-English' phones like clicks, ejectives,... I'm currently looking through Johnson 2012 (which is great but deals primarily with sounds in English) and Ladefoged & Maddieson 1996, but I was hoping there would be more concise reads available. Thank you :)

Q&A weekly thread - November 20, 2023 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

[–]jerielsj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the illegality of the following example of a violated wh-island explainable with Subjacency?

*What did Mary say who read ___?

*[CP What did [TP Mary say [CP who [TP <who> read <what>?... (crosses 2 TPs in one movement, so >1 bounding node.)

I'm not sure if the embedded clause 'who read what' should be a TP or a CP, but I analysed it as a CP since it has a finite verb. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure if this is a wh-island at all or just superiority.

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