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University of Kentucky Knowledge Base, 2015
Among Urdu's many verb+verb constructions, this thesis focuses on those constructions, which comb... more Among Urdu's many verb+verb constructions, this thesis focuses on those constructions, which combine the stem of a main content verb with another inflected verb which is used in a semantically bleached sense. Prior work on these constructions has been focused on their structural make-up and syntactic behavior in various environments. While there is consensus among scholars , Porizka 2000 that these stem+verb constructions encode aspectual information, to date no clear theory has been put forward to explain the nature of their aspectual contribution. In short, we do not have a clear idea why these constructions are used instead of simple verbs. This work is an attempt to understand the precise function of these constructions. I propose that simple verbs (henceforth SV) in Urdu deal only with the action of the verb whereas (regardless of the semantic information contributed by the second inflected verb, 1 ) the stem+verb constructions essentially deal with the action of the verb as well as the state of affairs resulting from this action. The event represented by these constructions is essentially a telic event as defined by Comrie (1976), whose resultant state is highlighted from the use of these constructions. The attention of the listener is then shifted to the result of this telic event, whose salience in the discourse is responsible for various interpretations of the event; hence my term 'resultive construction' (henceforth RC). When these constructions are made using the four special verbs (rah 'stay', sak 'can', paa 'manage' and cuk 'finish'), the product is not resultive. Each of these verbs behaves differently and is somewhere between a resultive and an auxiliary verb construction.
Southern Journal of Linguistics, 2017
Prior literature has suggested the existence of implosive characteristics in the voiced stops of ... more Prior literature has suggested the existence of implosive characteristics in the voiced stops of certain American English dialects (Jasewicz, Fox and Lyle 2009), but no serious research has been conducted to uncover this variation. The study of consonantal variation has typically relied on auditory coding (Thomas 2011) and implosives, in particular, are under-studied. All prior work on implosives involves articulatory measurements that require specialized apparatuses and live subjects, with no established methods to determine or even define 'implosivity' of voiced stops based on acoustic measurements. In this study, we have used Ladefoged and Maddieson's description of the acoustic waveform of a typical implosive and a typical plosive to propose a method that acoustically differentiates between plosive-like and implosive-like stops on a continuum (1996). Our method involves examining the voicing waveform of the occlusion period just before the stop release. A positive slope of the trend-line plotted for this waveform indicates an overall increase in amplitude during the occlusion period, and suggests that the stop is implosive-like. We then take the ratio of the voicing amplitude peak just before the stop release and the overall peak of the same waveform. The closer this ratio is to 1, the more implosive-like the stop will be. A combination of the slope of trend-line and the ratio of peaks in the occlusion period provides enough information for classifying a stop as plosive-like or implosive-like on a continuum. We successfully applied this method to study an American English dialect spoken in Hickory, North Carolina to uncover the variation in its voiced stops. We hope that our methods developed in this study, open up a new line of research that can further our understanding of consonantal diversity across American English dialects and the associated sociophonetic and sociolinguistic factors including language contact.
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University of Kentucky Knowledge Base, 2015
Among Urdu's many verb+verb constructions, this thesis focuses on those constructions, which comb... more Among Urdu's many verb+verb constructions, this thesis focuses on those constructions, which combine the stem of a main content verb with another inflected verb which is used in a semantically bleached sense. Prior work on these constructions has been focused on their structural make-up and syntactic behavior in various environments. While there is consensus among scholars , Porizka 2000 that these stem+verb constructions encode aspectual information, to date no clear theory has been put forward to explain the nature of their aspectual contribution. In short, we do not have a clear idea why these constructions are used instead of simple verbs. This work is an attempt to understand the precise function of these constructions. I propose that simple verbs (henceforth SV) in Urdu deal only with the action of the verb whereas (regardless of the semantic information contributed by the second inflected verb, 1 ) the stem+verb constructions essentially deal with the action of the verb as well as the state of affairs resulting from this action. The event represented by these constructions is essentially a telic event as defined by Comrie (1976), whose resultant state is highlighted from the use of these constructions. The attention of the listener is then shifted to the result of this telic event, whose salience in the discourse is responsible for various interpretations of the event; hence my term 'resultive construction' (henceforth RC). When these constructions are made using the four special verbs (rah 'stay', sak 'can', paa 'manage' and cuk 'finish'), the product is not resultive. Each of these verbs behaves differently and is somewhere between a resultive and an auxiliary verb construction.
Southern Journal of Linguistics, 2017
Prior literature has suggested the existence of implosive characteristics in the voiced stops of ... more Prior literature has suggested the existence of implosive characteristics in the voiced stops of certain American English dialects (Jasewicz, Fox and Lyle 2009), but no serious research has been conducted to uncover this variation. The study of consonantal variation has typically relied on auditory coding (Thomas 2011) and implosives, in particular, are under-studied. All prior work on implosives involves articulatory measurements that require specialized apparatuses and live subjects, with no established methods to determine or even define 'implosivity' of voiced stops based on acoustic measurements. In this study, we have used Ladefoged and Maddieson's description of the acoustic waveform of a typical implosive and a typical plosive to propose a method that acoustically differentiates between plosive-like and implosive-like stops on a continuum (1996). Our method involves examining the voicing waveform of the occlusion period just before the stop release. A positive slope of the trend-line plotted for this waveform indicates an overall increase in amplitude during the occlusion period, and suggests that the stop is implosive-like. We then take the ratio of the voicing amplitude peak just before the stop release and the overall peak of the same waveform. The closer this ratio is to 1, the more implosive-like the stop will be. A combination of the slope of trend-line and the ratio of peaks in the occlusion period provides enough information for classifying a stop as plosive-like or implosive-like on a continuum. We successfully applied this method to study an American English dialect spoken in Hickory, North Carolina to uncover the variation in its voiced stops. We hope that our methods developed in this study, open up a new line of research that can further our understanding of consonantal diversity across American English dialects and the associated sociophonetic and sociolinguistic factors including language contact.