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Check out cutting-edge research from the LSA's flagship journal!  The latest issue includes articles on attracting Black students to linguistics, stem alternations in Chichimec, lexical tones, the Santa Cruz sluicing data set, and more.

The March 2021 issue of Language is available online at Project MUSE. Please see the Table of Contents below, with clickable links to the latest research published in our flagship journal.  To read the articles, you will need to be logged in using your institution's online credentials or the Project MUSE login portal for LSA members.

All LSA members can access issues of Language going back to 2001 through the Project MUSE website.  Instructions are available here (login to LSA website required).

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Paradigmatic restructuring and the diachrony of stem alternations in Chichimec

Timothy Feist, Enrique L. Palancar

 

The logic of Person markedness: Evidence from pronominal competition

Ivy Sichel, Martina Wiltschko

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The lexical distribution of labial-velar stops is a window into the linguistic prehistory of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa free access

Dmitry Idiatov, Mark L. O. Van de Veld

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The lexical distribution of labial-velar stops is a window into the linguistic prehistory of Northern Sub-Saharan Africa: Supplementary materials free access

Dmitry Idiatov, Mark L. O. Van de Velde

 

Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction

Joan Bresnan

Learning complex segments

Maria Gouskova, Juliet Stanton

Language Revitalization and Documentation (Online-only):

A framework for Language Revitalization and Documentation free access

Colleen M. Fitzgerald

Teaching Linguistics (Online-only)

Attracting Black students to linguistics through a Black-centered Introduction to Linguistics course free access

Kendra Calhoun, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Mary Bucholtz, Jazmine Exford, Brittney Johnson

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Attracting Black students to linguistics through a Black-centered Introduction to Linguistics course: Supplementary materials free access

Kendra Calhoun, Anne H. Charity Hudley, Mary Bucholtz, Jazmine Exford, Brittney Johnson

 

Research Reports (Online-only):

Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance

Youngah Do, Ryan Ka Yau Lai

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Accounting for lexical tones when modeling phonological distance: Supplementary materials free access

Youngah Do, Ryan Ka Yau Lai

 

The Santa Cruz sluicing data set

Pranav Anand, Daniel Hardt, James McCloskey

At the syntax-discourse interface: Verb phrase ellipsis interpretation in context free access

Jeffrey Geiger, Ming Xiang

Reviews

Battle in the mind fields by John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks (review)

Randy Harris

Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: Language, culture, identity ed. by Jacqueline Knörr and Wilson Trajano Filho (review)

Marlyse Baptista

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