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Student Rostrum

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Welcome to our Student Rostrum!  We love our students and are offering all a quasi-professional platform for sharing research endeavors in preparation for various linguistics-related career paths.   We encourage all of you to post your work here for several reasons. 1. Knowing that your material will be read by others around the globe is a tremendous motivation to put forth your best work. 2. … [Read more...]

Testimony KB

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Teaching Linguistics can be challenging, especially on an introductory level because many of the students have not yet had any previous experience with this type of material. Linguistics Network has been one of the most valuable learning tools for my students in Introduction to Linguistics.  For any course that involves the study of linguistics, practice is essential. Similar to a math class, the … [Read more...]

Dependency Grammars

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In dependency grammars, there are no phrasal levels, nor branch nodes. In dependency grammars, all nodes are terminal. While dependency grammars will yield trees with less nodes than those created under PSGs, it is important to note that Dependency grammars do not reject the idea of constituency. In our dependency example above, boat still dominates the determiner ‘the’, to form the constituent … [Read more...]

Syntactic Constituency

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Although language seems to be spoken linearly, since the only way we can do language is by having one word follow another, sentences and phrases are actually formed by attaching constituents to each other in a hierarchical construct. Consider the following sentence. (1) Harriet mistakenly went home with her cousin’s jacket. We know intuitively who did what. Furthermore, we know that … [Read more...]

Scholarly Articles: Prosody

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Below is a list of our current scholarly articles pertaining to various aspects of prosody.  Although these articles are not the most current, they are some of the best-known scholarly works in this area. Prosody in the comprehension of Spoken Language. Cutler, Oahan , and van Donselaar (1997) The Use of Prosody in Syntactic Disambiguation. Price et al. (1991) Intonational Phrasing … [Read more...]

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