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UBCWPL University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics
- Proceedings of NWLC 2001 -Northwest Linguistics Conference
Edited by: Sunyoung Oh, Naomi Sawai, Kayono Shiobara & Rachel Wojdak
December 2001 Volume 8
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- Proceedings of NWLC 2001 -Northwest Linguistics Conference
held at University of British Columbia
Vancouver,Canada
April 7-8, 2001
The University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 8
edited by Sunyoung Oh, Naomi Sawai, Kayono Shiobara & Rachel Wojdak
December 2001
UBCWPL is published by the graduate students of the University of British Columbia. We feature current research on language and linguistics by students
and faculty of the department, and we are the regular publishers of two conference proceedings: the Workshop on Structure and Constituency
in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) and the International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages (ICSNL).
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UBCWPL Editors Department of Linguistics
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
OLADIIPO AJIBOYE
Nasalization in M9ba .......................................................................................... 1
SUN-KWANG BAE Acquisition of English fricatives by Korean ESL speakers: durational aspect. .... 19
MANUEL CAMACHO
Linguistics in the labor market: the case of Mexico ............................................ 29
KYUNG-SOOK CHUNG
Tense interpretation in Korean ........................................................................... 37
CONNIE KWOK LAI So
Perception of Cantonese tones by Canadian-Cantonese immigrants ................... 53
Cm-NIN LI
Fundamental frequency of English words in sentences produced by nonnative female speakers in noise .................................................................................... 73
YuLuo
Encoding the interpersonal meaning of online messages in a virtual graduate seminar .............................................................................................................. 79
ILANA MEZHEVICH
Definiteness and free word order in Russian ...................................................... 97
CAROLINE MORGAN-CARTER
The relation between musical ear and L2 acuisition ......................................... 107
GEOFFREY STEW ART MORRISON
Perception of English /i/ and II/ by Japanese listeners ...................................... 113
YUMIKO NAKAMURA
Disjoint Reference and Possessor Raising in Shuswap ..................................... 133
SUNYOUNG OH
Phonation effect of stops on vowel F0 in South Kyungsang Korean .................. 143
SETSUKO SHIRAI
Gemination in loans from English to Japnanese ............................................... 155
HONG-Kl SOHNG AND CHONG-SUN LEE
Type-shifting and scrambling in Dutch and Korean ......................................... 181
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