VOLUME XXXIV, NO. 2 ISSN 1548-1484 SPRING 2009
Editor's note
We welcome readers to the California Linguistic Notes Archives. We invite articles, remarks & replies, squibs, and review articles for future issues. We welcome comments on any material that appears here. See submissions link for information on how to make a submission. Editorial decisions are made promptly.
Patricia Schneider-Zioga, editor
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
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
by Jyh Wee Sew
David Britain, Ed. Language in the British Isles
by Robert D. Angus
David Boersema. Pragmatism and reference
by Robert D. Angus
Michael Perkins. Pragmatic impairment
by Robert D. Angus
Sara Mills. Language and sexism
by Robert D. Angus
Kepa Korta & Joana Garmendia, Ed. Meaning, intentions, and argumentation
by Robert D. Angus
Robert Bayley & Ceil Lucas, Ed. Sociolinguistic variation: Theories, methods, and applications
by Robert D. Angus
Salonee Priya, Ed. Vanishing voices: The endangered languages across the globe
by Robert D. Angus
Mohammed Aminu Mu'azu. Grammar of Kilba language
by Lincom Europa