Volume XXXIV No. 2

ISSN 1548-1484

Spring, 2009

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We are proud to offer articles about new developments in computational linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, general linguistics, and sociolinguistics, along with reviews of recent literature and performances of interest to the general linguist.

We invite squibs, reviews of literature, conferences, and performances, review articles, short and longer articles, and comments on any of the material that appears here. 

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email: dangus@fullerton.edu

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Articles

Euphony in American Indian languages: A phonetic universal

By Yuri Tambovtsev

The imitation of style: Frequency of occurrence of linguistic elements

By Yuri Tambovtsev

Where is the cat in relation to the window? The expression of spatial relations in French and Arabic first and second language

By Hana Hirzalla and Rémy Porquier

Effects of age on second language acquisition

By Iman Tohidian and Ezatollah Tohidian

How learners make mental links with words

By Ali Rahimi and Hamzeh Haghighi

Oral aesthetics and cultural distillates in Elechi Amadi's The concubine

By James Tar Tsaaior

Interpreting Yoruba proverbs: Some hearer strategies

By Funmi O. Olubode-Sawe

Artistic undercurrents of performance: Egungun costumes in Ode Irele

By Segun Omosule

Ideologies on display: A Nigerian Election Petition Tribunal ruling

By Adesina B. Sunday

Panhandlers as rhetors: Discourse practices of peripatetic beggars in southwestern Nigeria

By Ibrahim Esan Olaosun

Rethinking construction grammar: Contributions and outstanding questions

By Amr M. El Zawawy

Kilba morphological processes: A descriptive analysis

Classification and functions of ideophones in Kilba

The Hong and Gaya dialects of Kilba

By Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu

Sociolinguistic situation in Maiduguri: A study of Gamboru Liberty Ward

By Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu and Baba Kura AlKali Gazali

Reviews

Director: Aidli ‘Alin’. Betrayed Babies

Jyh Wee Sew

David Britain, Ed. Language in the British Isles

Robert D. Angus

David Boersema. Pragmatism and reference

Robert D. Angus

Michael Perkins. Pragmatic impairment

Robert D. Angus

Sara Mills. Language and sexism

Robert D. Angus

Kepa Korta & Joana Garmendia, Ed. Meaning, intentions, and argumentation

Robert D. Angus

Robert Bayley & Ceil Lucas, Ed. Sociolinguistic variation: Theories, methods, and applications

Robert D. Angus

Salonee Priya, Ed. Vanishing voices: The endangered languages across the globe

Robert D. Angus

Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu. Grammar of Kilba language

Lincom Europa

California Linguistic Notes (ISSN 1548-1484) is published at the Program in Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, California 92834-9480. CLN is a refereed publication requiring the agreement of at least two well-qualified peers for acceptance of articles. Also accepted are peer evaluated reviews or review articles of recent scholarly literature, conferences, or performances  relating to language and linguistics in the widest scope of those terms. Editor, Robert D. Angus (email: dangus@fullerton.edu)

Our thanks go to Angela Della Volpe, Acting Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, for providing financial support to make this publication a reality once again.