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University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium
Introduction
The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) is an occasional series published by the Penn Linguistics Club, the graduate student organization of the Linguistics Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The series has included volumes of previously unpublished work, or work in progress, by linguists with an ongoing affiliation with the Department, as well as proceedings of the NWAV conference and the Penn Linguistics Colloquium. We thank the Graduate Students Association Council of the University of Pennsylvania for financial support. This volume contains the proceedings of the 31st annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, held February 23-25, 2007, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The PWPL board for this volume was Lukasz Abramowicz, Stefanie Brody, Toni Cook, Ariel Diertani, Aviad Eilam, Keelan Evanini, Kyle Gorman, Laurel MacKenzie, and Joshua Tauberer.Conference Papers
Using sociolinguistic data to illuminate a theoretical debate: The case of person/number marking in Polish
Łukasz Abramowicz
Against restructuring in modern French
J. Marc Authier and Lisa A. Reed
Thematic relations as a cue to verb class: 2-year-olds distinguish unaccusatives from unergatives
Ann Bunger and Jeffrey Lidz
An evolutionary account of loanword-induced sound change in Japanese
Clifford Crawford
Why cross-linguistic frequency cannot be equated with ease of acquisition in phonology
Alejandrina Cristià and Amanda Seidl
Phonetic, phonological, and social forces as filters: Another look at the Georgia Toscana
Christina Villafaña Dalcher
The real effect of word frequency on phonetic variation
Aaron J. Dinkin
Barely there: Hard-to-detect auxiliaries shed light on children’s acquisition of French
Christina D. Dye
Romanian n-words as negative quantifiers
Anamaria Falaus
DP hypothesis for Japanese “bare” noun phrases
Kaori Furuya
Licensing strong NPIs
Jon Gajewski
A simpler view of Danish stød
Jonathan Gress-Wright
Positionally licensed extended lapses
Paula Houghton
Discovering place and manner features: What can be learned from acoustic and articulatory data
Ying Lin and Jeff Mielke
On Slavic semelfactives and secondary imperfectives: Implications for the split ‘AspP’
Vita G. Markman
Reconstruction of Proto-Trique phonemes
Kosuke Matsukawa
On the lack of subject-object asymmetries
Clemens Mayr
The acquisition of evidentiality in Turkish
Ozge Ozturk and Anna Papafragou
Wh-in-situ and the Spanish DP: Movement or no movement?
Lara Reglero and Emma Ticio
Social networks and intraspeaker variation during periods of language change
Celina Troutman, Brady Clark, and Matthew Goldrick
Incorporated nominals as antecedents for anaphora, or How to save the thematic arguments theory
Igor Yanovich
Modeling diachronic change in the Thai tonal space
Elizabeth C. Zsiga