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Mon Feb 24 2003

TOC: Reading Working Papers in Linguistics, 6 (2002)

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1. Michalis Georgiafentis, Reading Working Papers in Linguistics, 6 (2002)

READING WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS 6, 2002

Edited by Michalis Georgiafentis & Spyridoula Varlokosta
Published by the School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies, The
University of Reading

We are pleased to announce the issue of Volume 6 of the University of
Reading Working Papers in Linguistics (2002).

Below you can find the table of contents.

A number of papers are available for download in .pdf format at
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/slals/wp6/index.htm


CONTENTS

Phonetics and Phonology 

Correlations between musical and Japanese phonetic aptitudes by native
speakers of English 
Hitomi Nakata

Phonological distribution of the FOOT vowel, /U/, in young people's
speech in south-eastern British English
Eivind Nessa Torgersen


Syntax 

Greek 'ECM' and how to control it 
George Kotzoglou

On the status of 'clitics' and their 'doubles' in Greek 
Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Michalis
Georgiafentis & George Kotzoglou

A note on arbitrary null-subjects
Vassilios Spyropoulos


Language Acquisition 

Selective verb deficits in SLI: another look at the autistic spectrum
problem
Richard Ingham

Nature or nurture: structured information knowledge
C�cile van der Weert

On the semantic properties of non-finite clauses in early child Greek
Spyridoula Varlokosta


Sociolinguistics

The age variable in the rise of periphrastic 'do' in English
Amel Kallel

Models of linguistic change and diffusion: new evidence from dialect
levelling in British English
Paul Kerswill

Writing in an unwritten language: the case of Guernsey French
Julia Sallabank


Applied Linguistics

Collection, handling, and analysis of classroom recordings data: using
the original acoustic signal as the primary source of evidence
Montserrat P�rez-Parent

Units of production in writing: evidence of topic 'framing' in on-line
writing research
Kristyan Spelman Miller