Abstract: Previous phonetic studies of metrical prominence have primarily focused on its acoustic manifestations, including pitch, intensity, duration, spectral tilt, etc. In this paper we outline our new research program in which we explore jaw displacement patterns as another articulatory reflex of metrical prominence. We present our studies of English and Japanese in some detail, which show ...

Abstract Diachronic studies have played an increasingly important role in recent Cognitive Linguistics. This introductory paper provides overview of some major lines research this field, starting with the inherently panchronic approach that characterizes most flavors usage-based theory from Grammar to complex adaptive systems approaches. In particular, “constructionist turn” and “quantitative L...

Abstract In the last decade, we have seen a number of studies come to life in which collection data for linguistic research has not followed traditional path holding in-person interviews or experiments, using surveys eliciting judgements, but instead made use smartphone technology and applications collecting data. The current is first include papers with reflections from linguistics community a...

Brian Dillon, Andrew Nevins, Alison C. Austin, and Colin Phillips Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA Department of Linguistics, University College London, London, UK Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA Department of Linguistics, Program...