University of Rochester

Research

Working Papers

Spring 2007, vol. 3, no. 1

Individual papers are available in pdf format.

Editors: Lynsey Wolter and Jill Thorson

Contents

The role of argument structure in Arabic impoverished agreement constructions
Charley Beller, pp. 2-25

Implicit learning and syntactic persistence: surprisal and cumulativity
T. Florian Jaeger and Neal Snider, pp. 26-44

Rhythmic structure of music and language: an empirical investigation of American jazz masters Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton
Joyce McDonough, Harold Danko, and Jason Zentz, pp. 45-56

Freeing possessed NPs from Binding Theory
Jeffrey T. Runner, pp. 57-90

The scaling of utterance-initial pitch peaks in Puerto Rican Spanish: evidence for tonal preplanning
Jill Thorson