Aug 2026· Spanish in Context· 0 citations· 24 references
Abstract
Adjective position in Spanish offers a window into how multiple levels of the grammar interact in shaping variable
structures. Using a corpus of spontaneous Venezuelan speech, we extracted all noun-adjective pairings for 10 adjectives that
permitted variation between pre- and post-position in prior research, yielding 928 variable tokens. Tokens were coded for
differences in the syllable length and lexical frequency of the adjective relative to the noun, in addition to the adjective’s
semantic class. Results showed that for these adjectives pre-position occurred at a rate of 44.94%, consistent with prior
cross-dialectal trends. Mixed-effects modeling demonstrated that adjectives lighter and more frequent than the modified noun
significantly favored pre-position, and there was no significant difference across these semantic classes. These findings
highlight the interplay of phonological and frequency factors in adjective placement and suggest that frequent pairings may have
been reanalyzed as entrenched units, consistent with usage-based approaches to grammar building.
Stress position in English words is well-known to be influenced by phonological, morphological, and (morpho)syntactic factors (esp. verbs vs. nouns). All these influences, however, are far from categorical, and very often stress varies from one word to another in a seemingly unpredictable manner. What is more, rece...
This study investigates the relationship between quantifiable morphological productivity, frequency, and the position of stress in a language with a head-dependent canonical lexical accent system, Vedic Sanskrit. Necessary background is furnished by reviewing principles of the phonological analysis of stress assignment...
Frequency of occurrence is one of the main drivers of children's early vocabularies. However, multiple authors have concluded that it fails to account for one of the most important phenomena in word learning-the order in which children acquire nouns and verbs. Across many languages, there is an early noun bias despite...
Gary Jones, F. Cabiddu, Pablo Aros Muñoz et al.· Journal of experimental psyc...· 0 citations
This study critically examines the linguistic integrity of Tilawati, one of the most widely used Qur’an-based instructional textbooks for reading practice in Indonesia, with particular attention to the accuracy of its phonological and morphemic representations. The complete textbook was digitized and compiled into an a...
M. Baihaqi, Nadlir, C. Darmawan et al.· Theory and Practice in Langu...· 0 citations
This article looks at the possibility of using morphemes, in this case suffixes in relational adjectives, as
markers of conceptual relations. Noun phrases with relational adjectives involve a head noun, an adjective derived from a noun,
and a suffix. Following the hypothesis of constructional morphology, we can a...
A. Condamines· Terminology. International J...· 0 citations
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