UBC Qualifying Papers

UBC Qualifying Papers 4 (2015–2017),
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics,
Emily Sadlier-Brown, Oksana Tkachman, and Avery Ozburn (eds.). Vancouver, BC: UBCWPL, 2019.

• Bertrand, Anne, "Drawing a map to the Ktunaxa clause: Evidence from verbal morphology", pp. 1-20
• Fry, Michael, "Towards modeling the acquisition of inotnation", pp. 1-17
• Huijsmans, Marianne, "The scalar exclusive operator ʔut in ʔayʔaǰuθəm: 'No more than' and no exceptions!", pp. 1-16
• Huijsmans, Marianne, "Prosody in ʔayʔaǰuθəm: Downstep and reset as cues to constituency", pp. 1-22
• Keough, Megan, "Audio-aerotactile integration in infant speech perception", pp. 1-15
• Mellesmoen, Gloria Madeleine, "A dynamic phonetic analysis of /s/ and /θ/ in ʔayʔaǰuθəm (Mainland Comox Salish)", pp. 1-21
• Ozburn, Avery, "Fragment answers to polarity questions in Hungarian", pp. 1-15
• Sadlier-Brown, Emily, "Effect of distributional shape on learning a target", pp. 1-19
• Tkachman, Oksana, "Iconicity sources and feature selection in the visual-manual modality", pp. 1-13

UBC Qualifying Papers 3 (2013–2015),
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 44,
Andrei Anghelescu, Joel Dunham, and Natalie Weber (eds.), 2016.

• Anghelescu, Andrei, “Distinctive transitional probabilities across words and morphemes in Sesotho”, pp. 1-17 (Dec 9, 2014)
• Fry, Michael, “Statistical learning based speech segmentation: A cross-linguistic, corpus-based perspective”, pp. 18-34 (April 2015)
• Gambarage, Joash Johannes, “Tongue root restriction and nominal morphological domains in Nata”, pp. 35-52 (April, 22, 2014)
• Lam, Zoe, “The verbal morphotonology of Nata”, pp. 53-76 (Dec 16, 2013)
• Heim, Johannes, “Understanding focus sensitivity in the context of pre- and post-positional German nur”, pp. 77-92 (April 21, 2015)
• Heim, Johannes, “Expertise and common ground: an experimental investigation of Swabian gell”, pp. 93-108 (April 21, 2015)
• Keupdjio, Hermann, “Number stacking and the semantics of associative plurals in Bamileke Medumba”, pp. 109-124 (Dec, 9, 2014)
• Keupdjio, Hermann, “Wh-movement, A-bar agreement and resumption in Bamileke Medumba”, pp. 125-146 (April, 21, 2015)
• Osa-Gómez, Adriana, “Quantification and freedom of choice in Nata”, pp. 147-163 (Dec 9, 2014)
• Osa-Gómez, Adriana, “Negotiation of speech acts: evidence from Spanish”, pp. 164-179 (April 2015)
• Ozburn, Avery, “Perceptual motivations of sibilant harmony”, pp. 180-194 (April 21, 2015)
• Sadlier-Brown, Emily, “Word order optionality in the Nata double object construction”, pp. 195-218 (Dec 9, 2014)
• Tkachman, Oksana, “The status of third person pointing signs in American Sign Language (ASL)”, pp. 219-233 (Dec 9, 2014)
• Weber, Natalie, “Initial extrametricality and cyclicity in Blackfoot accent”, pp. 234-249 (Dec 16, 2013)
• Weber, Natalie, “Predicate features and imperfectivity in Blackfoot”, pp. 250-274 (April, 22, 2014)

UBC Qualifying Papers 2 (2011-2012).
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 34,
Alexis Black and Meagan Louie (eds.), 2012

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• Jen Abel, “Phonetic imitation, accommodation, and audience design in Canadian radio interviews”, pp. 1-14.
• Sihwei Chen, “The Temporal Interpretation of Modals in Mandarin Chinese”, pp. 15-30.
• Kevin McMullin, “Learning consonant harmony in artificial languages: Locality”, pp. 31-44.
• Joash Johannes, “Context-of-use of augmented and unaugmented N-stems in Nata”, pp. 45-59.
• Kevin McMullin, “Similarity and half-rhyme acceptability”, pp. 60-74.
• Blake Allen, “Using computational models of grammar to assess lexical influences on experimental judgments”, pp. 75-88.
• Andrei Anghelescu, “Morphophonology and tone in Nata”, pp. 89-103.
• Blake Allen, “Hiatus-conditioned accent shift in Japanese: expanding the vowel sonority hierarchy”, pp. 104-118.

UBC Qualifying Papers 1 (2010-2011).
University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics 33,
Analía Gutiérrez and Elizabeth Stelle (eds.), 2011

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• Jennifer Abel, “Context-dependent possession relations and the English double gentive”, pp. 1-15.
• Alexis Black, “Acoustic and social parameters on phonetic imitation: gender, emotion, and feature saliency”, pp. 16-33
• Alexis Black, “Ostension and definiteness in the Kwak’wala noun phrase: a syntactic and semantic examination”, pp. 34-50
• Patrick Littell, “Mistaken identity: Boas’s dilemma and the missing Kwak’wala copula”, pp. 51-64
• Masaki Noguchi, “OCP(voi) and lexical stratification in Japanese”, pp. 65-76
• Masaki Noguchi, “A preliminary study of intonation in Kwak’wala”, pp. 77-90