Brett Baker

How Pitch Moves: Production of Cantonese Tones by Speakers with Different Tonal Experiences

This study investigates how native prosodic systems as well as L2 learning experience shape non-native tone production in terms of tone movement, a primary cue to tone identity. In an imitation task, the six Cantonese tones were produced by four speaker groups: native Mandarin speakers (tonal), native English speakers (non-tonal), native English speakers with Mandarin learning experience (L2 tonal) and native Cantonese speakers (control group). The results indicate that native prosodic systems influence non-native tone production: Mandarin speakers are more accurate on pitch contour than pitch height while English speakers perform better on level tones than contour ones. Furthermore, L2 tonal experience assists L3 tone production, as English-speaking Mandarin learners produce Cantonese tones in the most native-like shape, outperforming both Mandarin and English speakers.

Complex Predicates: Frontmatter

Complex predicates usually are defined as predicates which are multi-headed; they are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a head. I discuss phenomena that were used to motivate complex predicate analyses. For instance in many languages certain predicates form a cluster, i.e. a topological unit. In free constituent order languages, the dependents of the predicates in the cluster sometimes can be permuted as if they were dependents of a single head. The matrix predicate sometimes determines the case of a dependend of an embedded predicate. I sketch several analyses of these phenomena that were suggested in various frameworks.1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Author index Language index Subject index.

Complex Predicates: List of contributors

Complex predicates usually are defined as predicates which are multi-headed; they are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a head. I discuss phenomena that were used to motivate complex predicate analyses. For instance in many languages certain predicates form a cluster, i.e. a topological unit. In free constituent order languages, the dependents of the predicates in the cluster sometimes can be permuted as if they were dependents of a single head. The matrix predicate sometimes determines the case of a dependend of an embedded predicate. I sketch several analyses of these phenomena that were suggested in various frameworks.1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Author index Language index Subject index.

Complex Predicates: Index

Complex predicates usually are defined as predicates which are multi-headed; they are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a head. I discuss phenomena that were used to motivate complex predicate analyses. For instance in many languages certain predicates form a cluster, i.e. a topological unit. In free constituent order languages, the dependents of the predicates in the cluster sometimes can be permuted as if they were dependents of a single head. The matrix predicate sometimes determines the case of a dependend of an embedded predicate. I sketch several analyses of these phenomena that were suggested in various frameworks.1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Author index Language index Subject index.

Complex Predicates: List of figures and tables

Complex predicates usually are defined as predicates which are multi-headed; they are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a head. I discuss phenomena that were used to motivate complex predicate analyses. For instance in many languages certain predicates form a cluster, i.e. a topological unit. In free constituent order languages, the dependents of the predicates in the cluster sometimes can be permuted as if they were dependents of a single head. The matrix predicate sometimes determines the case of a dependend of an embedded predicate. I sketch several analyses of these phenomena that were suggested in various frameworks.1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Author index Language index Subject index.

Complex Predicates: Contents

Complex predicates usually are defined as predicates which are multi-headed; they are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a head. I discuss phenomena that were used to motivate complex predicate analyses. For instance in many languages certain predicates form a cluster, i.e. a topological unit. In free constituent order languages, the dependents of the predicates in the cluster sometimes can be permuted as if they were dependents of a single head. The matrix predicate sometimes determines the case of a dependend of an embedded predicate. I sketch several analyses of these phenomena that were suggested in various frameworks.1. Introduction: complex predicates Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 2. Complex predicate formation Brett Baker and Mark Harvey 3. The light verb jungle: still hacking away Miriam Butt 4. Events and serial verb constructions William A. Foley 5. Cotemporal serial verb constructions in White Hmong Nerida Jarkey 6. Activity incorporates in some Athabaskan languages Keren Rice 7. Warlpiri verbs of change and causation: the thematic core Mary Laughren 8. Complex predicates in Wambaya: detaching predicate composition from syntactic structure Rachel Nordlinger 9. Compound verbs and ideophones in Wolaitta revisited Azeb Amha 10. The structure of the light verb construction in Amharic Mengistu Amberber Author index Language index Subject index.