Markedness

This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn­ guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM. It includes all papers that were given at the conference with the exception of Genevieve Escure and Glenn Gilbert's joint paper "Syntactic marking/unmarking phenomena in the creole continuum of Belize" which was not submitted for publication by the authors. Many of the papers appear in this volume in a revised form that is somewhat different from the oral version. We would like to thank the various departments and other units at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that sponsored the mark- ness symposium. These are: the Department of Linguistics, the English as a Second Language Intensive Program, the College of Let­ ters and Science, the Division of Urban Outreach, the Center for Latin America and the Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute. Finally, we wish to thank Lisa Carrara for doing a careful joh on the preparation of the index, and J. L. Russell, for his patience and perseverance in typing a difficult manuscript. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Markedness — An Overview....Pages 1-11 Word Structure, Markedness, and Applied Linguistics....Pages 13-38 Marked Vowel Systems and Distinctive Palatalization....Pages 39-45 Epenthesis and Markedness....Pages 47-63 Indefinite NPs and the Interpretation of Discourse-Based Null Elements....Pages 65-84 Markedness, Grammar, People, and the World....Pages 85-106 Markedness and Distribution in Phonology and Syntax....Pages 107-138 Markedness and the Bindability of Subject of NP....Pages 139-154 Markedness and the Zero-Derived Denominal Verb in English: Synchronic, Diachronic, and Acquisition Correlates....Pages 155-168 The Semiotic Theory of Ergativity and Markedness....Pages 169-217 Markedness, the Organization of Linguistic Information in Speech Production, and Language Acquisition....Pages 219-239 Language Acquisition, Aphasia, and Phonotactic Universals....Pages 241-255 Language Acquisition Data and the Theory of Markedness: Evidence from Spanish....Pages 257-269 The Markedness Differential Hypothesis: Implications for Vietnamese Speakers of English....Pages 271-289 Markedness and Allophonic Rules....Pages 291-308 Markedness and Parameter Setting: Some Implications for a Theory of Adult Second Language Acquisition....Pages 309-327 Back Matter....Pages 329-343 This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LInƯ guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM. It includes all papers that were given at the conference with the exception of Genevieve Escure and Glenn Gilbert's joint paper "Syntactic marking/unmarking phenomena in the creole continuum of Belize" which was not submitted for publication by the authors. Many of the papers appear in this volume in a revised form that is somewhat different from the oral version. We would like to thank the various departments and other units at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee that sponsored the mark- ness symposium. These are: the Department of Linguistics, the English as a Second Language Intensive Program, the College of LetƯ ters and Science, the Division of Urban Outreach, the Center for Latin America and the Spanish Speaking Outreach Institute. Finally, we wish to thank Lisa Carrara for doing a careful joh on the preparation of the index, and J.L. Russell, for his patience and perseverance in typing a difficult manuscript