Fleur de Ling: Tulane University Working Papers: Volume 1 (#1 2014)

Teresa Grubb and Shane Lief

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

Teresa Grubb and Shane Lief ................iii

PHONOLOGY, PHONETICS, AND MORPHOLOGY ....1

ROOT AND WORD MINIMALITY PATTERNS: UNDERLYING MINIMALITY CONDITIONS ANDSURFACE MINIMALITY EFFECTS

Zachary N. Hebert ..................... 3

THEORIES OF NASAL VOWEL REPRESENTATION AND NASAL VOWEL ASYMMETRIES INYORUBA BORROWINGS

Ọlanikẹ Ọla Orie..............................43

THE ROLE OF PHONETICS IN LOANWORD ADAPTATION: A CASE STUDY FROM CHINESE LOANWORDS IN BAI

Tianqi Yang .............. 63

INVITED CONTRIBUTOR .......................................81

ABLAUT IN DINKA NOUNS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY Michael J. Kenstowicz ................................. 83

SOCIOLINGUISTICS ...............................93

“PURO KAQCHIKEL”: THE DISCOURSE SURROUNDING LANGUAGE SHIFT AND STANDARDIZATION IN HIGHLAND GUATEMALA

Joyce Bennett .....................................95

INTERTEXTUALITY AS LOOSE CHANGE ON SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

Shayra Burgos-Garcia ...................................107

DIVERSE TOPICS IN LINGUISTICS ..................... 129

DARK WINDOW: THE LIMITATIONS OF USING PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TO RECONSTRUCT CULTURE

Shane Lief ..................................131

PLURAL MARKING STRATEGIES IN NIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH (NAIJA)

Morakinyo Ogunmodimu ......................................143

HANDEDNESS IN CITONGA QUOTABLE GESTURES

Karen Wu Sanders ................................161

LAGNIAPPE ............................................................ 185

“YAT” NEVER WAS WHAT IT WAS

Shane Lief.................................................................. 187