Sunwoo Jeong

This paper presents an experimental study that provides evidence for the existence of two types of rising declaratives in English which differ systematically in their forms and their functions. The two are labelled assertive rising declaratives and inquisitive rising declaratives, respectively. Guided by the experimental results, the paper develops a semantic analysis of them. Having as backdrop an extended Lewisian model of discourse involving a conversational scoreboard, the analysis associate

One of the major open issues in semantics and pragmatics concerns the role of convention in relating sentence types with illocutionary acts and perlocutionary effects. For the type-to-illocution connection, some degree of force conventionalism seems to be widely accepted. In contrast, Austin (1962) and many subsequent researchers have assumed that perlocution is not a matter of convention, but rather arises inexorably from illocution, content, and context. In this paper, we challenge this fundam

Abstract Previous research demonstrates that listeners make social inferences about people based on how they speak, and that these inferences vary depending on the linguistic and social context. An open question is exactly how contextual enrichment (i.e. information about the speaker and speaking situation) comes to influence sociolinguistic perception. This paper addresses this question by analyzing data from 10 perception experiments investigating three different linguistic phenomena: number a

This paper examines social influences on the realization of voiced stops in inland California. We analyzed sociolinguistic interviews with 62 white residents from Redding, Merced, and Bakersfield (which mark the northern, middle, and southern points of California’s Central Valley), balanced for sex, class, age, and whether a speaker earns their livelihood off the land. We follow Jaciewicz, Fox, and Lyle (2009) in examining the extent of voicing during stop closures (duration of voicing during cl

Much work has been done to capture the systematic variation in projective behaviors of factive inferences. However, not as much has been said about variation in factivity below the level of projection. This paper presents an experimental study which probes and confirms that Korean showcases patterns of variation in this vein: Factive inferences systematically arise from certain V+CPs, but only under certain prosody, even in unembedded contexts. Characterizing this pattern as 'prosodically-condit

In this paper, I conduct a typological study on contextual vowel nasalization to elucidate the directional asymmetry involved in the process. I show that carryover nasalization is the default and extensive form of phonetic coarticulation in many languages and that it often exceeds the degree of anticipatory nasalization as coarticulation. On the other hand, I also show that anticipatory nasalization occurs more frequently than carryover nasalization as a phonological assimilation process. Conseq

This paper investigates how prosody may work to signal discourse related speech acts on the one hand, and speaker related affective meanings on the other, highlighting the potential connection between the two types of meanings.Focusing on the intonation of English polar interrogatives, the paper reports on a perception experiment that used stimuli manipulated in terminal contours (rising, level, and falling) and embedded in different contexts.The results suggest that different terminal contours

This study presents dual-mode memory transistor that accommodates memory and synaptic operations utilizing photoinduced charge trapping at the interface between poly(1,4-butanediol diacrylate) (pBDDA) and Parylene dielectric layer. Memory characteristics were implemented based on the photoresponsivity of dinaphtho[2,3- b :2′,3′- f ]thieno[3,2- b ]thiophene (DNTT), enabling instantaneous electron storage under combined optical and electrical inputs, with retention times up to 10,000 s. Meanwhile,

Abstract Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) with emphatic prosody such as ANY or EVER, and minimizers such as lift a finger or sleep a wink are known to generate particular contextual inferences that are absent in the case of non-emphatic NPIs such as unstressed any or ever. It remains an open question, however, what the exact status of these inferences is and how they come about. In this paper, we analyze these cases as NPIs bearing focus, and examine the interaction between focus semantics and the

Abstract Polar interrogatives with preposed negation (e.g., Didn’t Cam help?) convey positive epistemic bias. Polar interrogatives with even-type expressions, including prosodically stressed NPIs and minimizer NPIs (e.g., Did Cam lift a finger to help?), convey negative epistemic bias and often have a rhetorical flavor. This paper examines hybrid PQ constructions with both preposed negations and even-type expressions (e.g., Didn’t Cam lift a finger to help?; henceforth even-PNQs). It first prese

This study examines the interaction between linguistic variables and other semiotic resources in the visual media. It argues that many of the suprasegmental variables in classic Hollywood cinema iconically and sound-symbolically represent the major archetypes of the era, namely, the femme fatale, the dumb blonde, and the screwball heroine. It also argues that other visual, cinematic devices worked to actively develop and fortify this iconic relation. Due to this iconization process, the underlyi

The Epistemic Containment Principle (ECP) requires that epistemic modals takewider scope than strong quantifiers such as every or most (von Fintel and Iatridou, 2003). Althoughfairly robust in its realization, a few systemic classes of counterexamples to the ECPhave been noted. Based on these, previous work has argued for two claims: subjective modalsobey the ECP, whereas objective ones don’t (Tancredi, 2007; Anand and Hacquard, 2008); andevery respects the ECP, whereas each violates it (Tancred