Papers for Writing Synopsis

 

 

Language Acquisition/Bilingualism:

 

  1. Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time

 

  1. Baby Talk in Six Languages

 

  1. A CASE STUDY OF A JAPANESE CHILD LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND

 

 

Language and the Brain:

 

  1. Human Brain Language Areas Identified by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

 

  1. A PET study of cognitive strategies in normal subjects during language tasks

 

  1. A Cross-linguistic PET Study of Tone Perception

 

  1. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of human brain activity in a verbal fluency task

 

 

Phonetics

 

  1. Absolute pitch is demonstrated in speakers of tone languages

 

  1. Optical Phonetics and Visual Perception of Lexical and Phrasal Stress in English

 

 

  1. The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech

 

  1. Tonal Systems in Southeast Asia

 

 

Language Varieties and Dialects

 

  1. The Relationship of White Southern Speech to Vernacular Black English

 

  1. Social stigma and grammatical autonomy in nonnative varieties of English

 

  1. Spanglish: An Anglicized Spanish Dialect

 

  1. Spanglish: Language Contact in Puerto Rico

 

  1. Dialect, Language, Nation

 

 

  1. Come/came Variation in English Dialects

 

 

Language and Society

 

  1. Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy: Bolivia

 

  1. When Talk Isn't Cheap: Language and Political Economy

 

  1. Socioeconomic Linguistics (or Linguistic Socioeconomics

 

 

Semantics

 

  1. Reference to Kinds across Language

 

  1. The character of natural language semantics

 

 

Pidgins and Creoles

 

  1. What do creoles and pidgins tell us about the evolution of language

 

  1. Pidgins and Creoles: The Blurring of Categories

 

  1. Morphological simplicity in Pidgins and Creoles

 

  1. Language And Hybridization: Pidgin Tales from the China Coast