210 research outputs found
The Family Story of Alissa Duncan
Full text linkThe Family History of
Alissa A. Duncan
24 April 2016
Alissa Anne Duncan authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2016 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Do elevators compete with lifts?:Selecting dialect alternatives
Full text linkRecently, Melinger (2018) demonstrated that translation equivalent dialectal words compete for selection in a way that translation equivalent words from a non-target language do not. She argued that dialectal words are stored as within-language representations. However, Dylman and Barry (2018) showed that within-language synonyms behave like between-language translation equivalents, calling Melinger's interpretation into question. The aim of the present study is to compare dialectal and non-dialectal synonyms distractor effects with the same experimental design to elaborate our understanding of how dialectal lexical items are stored and retrieved during production. In two experiments, American translation equivalents slowed British picture naming times, replicating the findings from Melinger (2018). In a third experiment, synonymous distractor words did not slow picture naming times, replicating the findings from Dylman and Barry (2018). A proposal couched within the Swinging Lexical Network approach is proposed to explain the discrepant findings.</p
Dismissing lexical competition does not make speaking any easier:a rejoinder to Mahon and Caramazza (2009)
Full text linkThe swinging lexical network proposal (Abdel Rahman Melinger, 2009a this issue) incorporates three assumptions that are independently motivated and pre-existing in the literature. We claim that the combination of these three assumptions provides an account for a wide range of facilitation and interference observations. In their comment, Mahon and Caramazza question the success of our proposal by challenging the individual assumptions at its core. However, most of their criticisms are built on misconstruals of our proposal. Here, we revisit their points and clarify our position with regard to their specific concerns. We maintain that competition models do not necessitate an over-complication of lexical selection but rather provide an elegant and consistent mechanism to capture many empirical observations.</p
Alissa Cherry: A Poetry Reading
No full textThe Laureate Writers Series for Tuesday April 1st will feature Alissa Cherry at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse. The reading begins at 7 pm and will be followed by a book signing and an Open Mic. Novices as well as experienced writers are encouraged to participate in the Open Mic. The event is free and open to the public.
Allisa Cherry is the author of An Exodus of Sparks “ and is the 2024 recipient of the Poetry Prize given by Michigan State University’s Center for Poetry. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Journal, The McNeese Review, The Penn Review, and other literary journals. Her work also has been a finalist for the Sewanee Review Award for Poetry and the First Book Award at Persea Books. She is an associate poetry editor for West Trade Review and writes poetry book reviews for that journal’s “West End Book Reviews” column.
Cherry was raised in a religious community in the irradiated high desert of rural Arizona. She has deep ancestral ties to Mormon history—and, while not a direct descendant of Brigham Young, two of her aunts were plural married to him. She also is the great-granddaughter of a polygamist on her mother’s side, which makes her Mormon royalty-adjacent. Her complex relationship with the Mormon faith, the quotidian violence of her upbringing, and the geography of the Southwest informs much of her poetry. She has long since relocated to Portland, OR where she works in workforce development teaching classes and workshops designed for immigrants and refugees transitioning to a life in the United State
The Laureates Series is sponsored by the Blue Heron Coffeehouse, Chapter Two Books of Winona, Friends of the Winona Public Library, and Richard and Sara Ricker. - description publicized by Visit Winona. Add to calendar Details Date: April 1 Time
Parallel processing in language production
Full text linkFollowing the Sixth International Workshop on Language Production (Edinburgh, UK, Sept., 2010), this special issue presents a collection of contributions concerned with a wide range of representational and processing components. In the present article, we review the evidence for parallel processing at different levels within the production system with the aim of identifying any generalisation or common characteristics that might underpin a robust model of language production. Our review synergises with the other articles of the special issue. After reviewing the literature, we conclude that the evidence for parallelism is stronger at some levels than at others and it is premature to take a strong stand for a unified principle that applies equally to all components of the production system. Following our review, we introduce the other articles represented within this special issue
Foot structure and accent in Seneca
Full text linkArgues that the Seneca accent system can be explained more simply and naturally if the foot structure is reanalyzed as trochaic. Determination of the position of the accent by the position and structure of the accented syllable and by the position and structure of the post-tonic syllable; Assignment of the pair of syllables which interact to predict where accent is assigned in different iambic feet
Distinguishing languages from dialects:A litmus test using the picture-word interference task
Full text linkLinguists have been working to develop objective criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects for well over half a century. The prevailing view amongst sociolinguists is that no objective criteria can be formulated. The aim of this study is to examine whether language processing can provide insights into this problem by comparing bidialectal behavioural effects to bilingual effects reported in the literature. Previous research has demonstrated that when bilinguals name an object in Lx while simultaneously processing a translation equivalent distractor word in Ly, naming times are sped up relative to an unrelated condition (Costa, Miozzo, & Caramazza, 1999). Using the same methodology, we evaluated whether a comparable facilitation effect arises when the distractor word is a dialectal or register variant of the picture name. Across 5 experiments we found no trace of translation equivalent facilitation. Instead, we repeatedly observed between-dialect and between-register interference, in contrast to the between-language facilitation effect. This behavioural divergence between bilingual vs. bidialectal processing suggests that this paradigm could provide an objective litmus tests for identifying the boundary between dialects and languages
Influence of pre-existing fault fabrics on normal-fault development: an experimental study
No full textMany rift basins (e.g., the Jeanne d’Arc rift basin, the North Sea, the East African rift system) have undergone multiple episodes of extension with differing extension directions. Commonly, pre-existing faults formed during an earlier extensional episode act as zones of weakness, influencing subsequent deformation and affecting the development of these provinces. This thesis uses scaled experimental (analog) models to study the effect of a pre-existing fault fabric on fault development during extension. Specifically, I investigate how the orientation of a pre-existing fault fabric and the properties of a pre-existing fault fabric (including burial of the fabric) influence deformation during extension. The experiments show that the normal faults that develop during an initial extensional phase influence normal-fault development during subsequent extension. The orientation of pre-existing normal faults, relative to the second-phase extension direction, controls the reactivation of pre-existing normal faults during the second phase; the sense of slip on reactivated faults; and the attitude, number, and length of new normal faults. The magnitude of first-phase extension (which controls the number, size, and density of first-phase faults) influences the dominance of a particular fault population, in addition to the attitude and length of new normal faults. If a pristine cover is present, pre-existing faults affect the size, length, and location of new normal faults but not new fault orientations. All of the models indicate that fault orientations and populations in areas with a complex deformational history (observed either in map view or cross section) may not reflect the number, direction, and relative magnitude of each extensional episode. Variations in fault geometries, interactions, and fault reactivations in the models are similar to those observed in the Jeanne d’Arc basin, offshore Newfoundland; the Suez rift; the northern North Sea; and the Pattani basin, Thailand.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Alissa A. Henz
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