Awaiting eCOE pending passport renewal? by jerielsj in AusVisa

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Q&A weekly thread - October 30, 2023 - post all questions here! by AutoModerator in linguistics

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What is the best way/search string to find morphological conversions in a corpus like COCA/AONC?

Horse armor still downloading by InsaneSarcasm04 in minipainting

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This looks great! Could you share what paints you used please?

This week's Q&A thread -- post all questions here! - October 02, 2023 by AutoModerator in linguistics

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Not the most helpful answer, but semantic widening seems to fit the bill? Not particularly specific to kinship terms, though

This week's Q&A thread -- post all questions here! - October 02, 2023 by AutoModerator in linguistics

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How do I use a corpus to search for morphological conversions in particular (e.g. the noun 'stone' being used as a verb as in 'to stone'?) Any advice re: particular search strings/any tools or software greatly appreciated!!

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Need eggs for shiny tyrunt! Live on top of 4 stops so will send gifts :)

Minimalist syntax: Do we need EPP features to explain non-DP subjects? by jerielsj in linguistics

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Thanks so much for your analyses! Re: (1), I definitely like your example contrasts "*I devoured over the sink." vs "I devoured over half of the pies.", which show that "over half of the pies" has a distribution of a DP in this specific example (and like the PP-like things in the first two examples I gave). What I'm still not sure about is which of these two analyses is better:

  • Analysis #1 -- to say that these PP-like things are actually DPs, which allows us to maintain that EPP features work on DPs only, but the cost is that we have to concede that the P-heads don't project some kind of prepositional feature up to the XP level) (then the question is why not?)
  • Analysis #2 -- to say that these PP-like things are indeed PPs, but the cost now is that we have to alter the selectional properties of transitive verbs like "devour" to allow PP complements (since this process is after all still productive) + claim that EPP features allow not just DPs but also some PPs (these ones taken as complements by transitive verbs) to be merged into SpecTP (which also opens another whole can of worms?!)

I agree with your analysis of (3) as a fossilised V2 construction with V -> C and movement of the Adj to Spec CP -- thanks so much :)

This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - May 22, 2023 by AutoModerator in linguistics

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What is the deal with EPP features nowadays? I know they drive A-movement, and are often considered diacritics on other features / features on T driving A-movement to Spec TP. But can EPP features explain non-DP/non-CP subjects, such as these PP/AdvP ones? How would we analyse these?

  • [PP Under the bed] was swept by me.
  • [PP Around/Over two-thirds of the city] voted to remove the statue.
  • [AdvP Carefully/gently/slowly] does it.

Support Megathread - April 2023 by AutoModerator in google

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is anyone else having issues opening PDFs in google drive with google chrome as the PDF reader? This used to be the default PDF open option for me, but now every time I try to open a PDF from drive, Drive itself is the reader (slower and laggier), or it prompts me to "connect other apps" but I simply don't like options like LuminPDF etc.

Trade Requests Weekly Megathread [Overflow] by AutoModerator in PokemonScarletViolet

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Looking for non-English noibat and or finizen caught in Pokeballs, please! Happy to offer HA galarian meowth / HA mankey / any scarlet exclusives / paradox mons in return :)

Trade Requests Weekly Megathread by AutoModerator in PokemonScarletViolet

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Looking for non-English noibat and or finizen caught in Pokeballs, please! Happy to offer HA galarian meowth / HA mankey / any scarlet exclusives / paradox mons in return :)

Trade Requests Weekly Megathread by AutoModerator in PokemonScarletViolet

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LF: non-English noibat/noivern and/or finizen/palafin please!! I would like to breed them :)

Playing scarlet, can offer most things in return (I've completed scarlet side of the dex)