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These are the data for a journal article on 'Accusative of Negation in 'Borderland' Polish'. The abstract of the article is below. The data consist of the annotated list of tokens of accusative vs. genitive of negation (=GenNeg.txt), excerpted manually from relevant sources documenting south-eastern 'Borderland' Polish as used in the city of Lviv until WWII. Three types of sources have been used for this study: i.) the surviving and published scripts of a weekly popular radio programme of Polish Radio Lwów ('Wesola Lwowska Fala'), mainly pre-WWII, conducted in the dialect (1933-1945), for a few of which the accompanying recordings have been recovered too; ii.) a recovered pre-WWII film production with dialogues predominantly in the dialect (1939); iii.) written texts in the dialect from Lviv-based satirical magazines, predominantly pre-WWI (1882-1917). The sources and the annotation of the tokens are detailed in the accompanying description of the data (=00_readme_file_for_GenNeg.txt). The tokens were annotated for various factors, pertaining to the case-marked noun, to the verb and to the type of clause. The aim was to establish the correlation between these factors and the selection of dialectal accusative vs. Standard Polish genitive of negation. Here is the abstract of the article: The paper aims at offering a descriptive analysis of case under sentential negation in the pre-World War II urban dialect of Lviv, one of the key historical south-eastern ‘Borderland’ varieties of Polish which developed under strong Ukrainian influence. In this dialect, the direct internal argument in negated sentences could surface either in the genitive or accusative case. This is in contrast to other varieties of Polish, including Standard Polish, where it must be in the genitive. A distributional analysis of the data available suggests that the variation was not random. It was conditioned by the semantics of the object: The accusative was available if the noun phrase was definite. The genitive was not subject to any constraints. I argue that this represents a mixed grammar of case under negation: the Standard Polish model as well as a dialectal model. The latter emerged under the influence of Ukrainian. This mixed model is ultimately based on the availability of two types of negation phrase in Lviv ‘Borderland’ Polish, one without any scope features as in Standard Polish, and one with a negated quantificational scope feature as in East Slavonic.

This dataset contains tabular files with acoustic measurements for prevocalic and non-prevocalic laterals produced by n = 62 German learners of English and n = 26 native speakers of English (BrE and AmE). The German subjects are instructional-setting learners ranging from grade 5 (age: 11) to university. They are predominantly from northern Bavaria and represent a broad range of proficiency levels. Pronunciation ability was assessed with a foreign accent rating. The data were elicited with a word list and each subject produced n = 15 tokens (n = 10 in non-prevocalic position, n = 5 in prevocalic position). Measurements are reported for the first two formants (F1 and F2). See ReadMe file for more details. Related publication: Soenning, Lukas. 2020. Phonological variation in German Learner English. University of Bamberg dissertation. DOI: 10.20378/irb-49135 Open access: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/49135 Praat, 5.3.68

This dataset contains different measures of plosives produced by 16 Norwegian learners of French as a third language during a reading task and a repetition task. The data are extracted from two corpora collected within the framework of the IPFC project (Interphonologie du français contemporain): the Tromsø corpus with high school students, and the Oslo corpus with university students enrolled in a first year course on French phonetics and phonology. The dataset contains four files: A readme file, the word list used during the reading and repetition tasks, a data file containing all measures, and a text file presenting average values and VOT ranges for the individual informants. Praat, 6.1.13 For questions about the sound files used to obtain these data, or for more information about the larger corpora, contact the author.

This dataset contains tabular files with auditory classifications for onset /v/ produced by German learners of English. The data originate from two different studies. The data by Soenning (2020) include n = 62 speakers (instructional-setting learners from northern Bavaria; age: 11--30), who produced a total of n = 429 tokens. These data were elicited with two reading tasks, a word list and short question-answer sequences. The data by Rank (2016) include n = 26 speakers (mostly from southern Germany (Bavaria) who had learned English in an instructional context for at least 7 consecutive years; the sample may be considered as representing intermediate to advanced proficiency levels), who produced a total of n = 1144 tokens. These data were elicited with a word list and a reading passage. See ReadMe file for more details. Related publication: Soenning, Lukas. 2020. Phonological variation in German Learner English. University of Bamberg dissertation. DOI: 10.20378/irb-49135 Open access: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/49135

This dataset contains tabular files with auditory classifications for the voiced dental fricative in onset position by German learners of English. The data originate from three different studies. The data by Pascoe (1987) include n = 26 speakers (instructional-setting learners from southern Bavaria; age: 14-16 years), who produced a total of n = 304 tokens. These data were elicited with the re-telling of a picture story. The data by Wunder (2012) include n = 30 speakers (instructional-setting learners from northern Bavaria; age: 11-20), who produced a total of n = 863 tokens. These data were elicited with the reading passage. The data by Soenning (2020) include n = 62 speakers (instructional-setting learners from northern Bavaria; age: 11-30), who produced a total of n = 1531 tokens. These data were elicited with two reading tasks, a word list and short question-answer sequences. See ReadMe file for more details. Related publication: Soenning, Lukas. 2020. Phonological variation in German Learner English. University of Bamberg dissertation. DOI: 10.20378/irb-49135 Open access: https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/49135

This dataset provides replication data for an article on differential object marking in early Slavonic. The article uses extensive treebank data from the PROIEL and TOROT treebanks to track the much-debated rise of the animacy category in Russian, which in this article will be analysed as a change from at least partly definiteness-driven differential object marking in Old Church Slavonic via constructionally conditioned variation in Old East Slavonic to fully fledged animacy subgender marking in late Middle Russian. The change is interesting from a methodological point of view as well, since it requires us to annotate data through an ongoing change, and also since conventional treebank annotation is not enough to capture the conditions of the observed variation and change: annotation for semantics and information structure is necessary too. The article describes and defends a conservative approach to annotation in the face of change: the analysis that fits the first attested stage of a change is retained as long as possible. R, 4.0.3

This is the data examined in the study of Modern Russian verbs formed with the prefixes VY- and IZ-, a native East Slavic prefix and a loan Church Slavonic prefix, both of which mean ‘out of’. The study provides a synchronic contrastive analysis of the two prefixes and discusses how much they are semantically similar and what determines their distribution across Russian verbs. The dataset “VY_IZ_DATABASE_2019” provides replication data for the article “Two origins of the prefix IZ- and how they affect the VY- vs. IZ- correlation in Modern Russian” accepted for publication in Russian Linguistics. International Journal for the Study of Russian and other Slavic Languages 43(3). The amount of data examined in this study exceeds all previous accounts of the issue. The database contains 989 prefixed verbs. The verbs were culled from the Modern Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) and manually tagged for a number of parameters. The data was extracted automatically via the software management program MySQL. After that each verb was double-checked in the corpus and analyzed. In the database, each verb is accompanied with an English gloss, simplex base, corpus frequency, corpus example of its use, and a number of tags relevant for this study (type of perfective, submeaning of the prefix, etc.). The structure of the database is described in detail in the document “ReadMe”. Here is the abstract of the article: This article reports on a synchronic study of 989 Modern Russian verbs formed with the prefixes VY- and IZ-, including standard lexemes, obsolete verbs, and newly-formed coinages culled from the Russian National Corpus. I argue that the hypothesis about the two historical origins of the prefix IZ- may explain the ambivalent behavior of this prefix in Modern Russian, which shows both semantic overlap and semantic contrast with the prefix VY-. I revisit the most detailed semantic account of the two prefixes (Nesset et al 2011) and provide additional support for their model of polysemy in terms of type and token frequencies of the analyzed verbs. I further propose that VY- and IZ- encode different spatial image schemas and thus explain why the prefix IZ- is compatible with verbs of multidirectional motion, whereas VY- preferably attaches to verbs of unidirectional motion; why the verbs prefixed in IZ- often carry a more evocative flavor and refer to more intensive activities than those described by parallel verbs in VY-; why IZ- encodes multiplication of an action named by the base and why this is not common for VY-; and finally how it is possible for IZ- to have both bookish and colloquial uses, being very obsolete and highly productive in different submeanings.

Dataset abstract: This dataset contains Chinese name data (N = 163) and character feature data collected from 87 local Chinese storybooks, including character nature (N = 163), character gender (N = 67), character size (N = 85), and character personality (N = 53). The data was used to examine the association between name sounds and character features. Article abstract: Iconicity is a fundamental property of spoken and signed languages. However, quantitative analysis of sound-meaning association in Chinese has not been extensively developed, and little is known about the impact of sound symbolism in children’s literature. As sound symbolism is supposed to be a universal cognitive phenomenon, this research seeks to investigate whether iconic structures of Mandarin are embodied in native Chinese speakers’ language experience. The paper describes a case study of Chinese storybooks with the goal of testing whether phonosemantic association is prominent between name sounds and character features. A quantitative method was used to investigate the distribution of different phonological units in character denomination depending on their physical and emotional traits. The results show that phonemes and syllable combination patterns are closely related to perceivable character features. By comparing schematic mapping in Chinese with other languages, the study illuminates a cross-linguistic tendency in addition to a Chinese-specific iconic relation between sound and meaning. SPSS, 26 Excel, 16.53

[publication abstract, “The superlative alternation in British and American English: Questionnaire-based insights."] Drawing on data gleaned from a large-scale questionnaire study, this paper investigates the role of contextual constraints in the alternation of synthetic (-est) and analytic (most) superlative forms. The multifactorial analysis suggests that variables that have been interpreted along the lines of processing complexity in previous studies increase the odds of the analytic superlative, albeit to varying degrees. These findings substantiate the hypothesis that the cognitive support strategy of more-support, as identified by Mondorf (2009b) for the comparative, also extends to the superlative. Despite this empirical support, my analysis exposes the limitations of a complexity-based account of variation in gradation strategy choice. It is further observed that speakers of the two main reference varieties British English and American English do not systematically differ in their sensitivity to the cognitive mechanisms that underlie this alternation. This observation adds to the body of evidence that suggests a high degree of cross-varietal homogeneity in morphosyntactic alternations. From a methodological perspective, it is argued that elicitation studies of this kind constitute a valuable complement to the extant corpus studies conducted on this alternation in that they allow for the operationalisation of linguistic and extralinguistic variables in a controlled setting. This dataset contains elicitation data collected through a questionnaire on superlative strategy choice in English (X-est vs. most X). Native speakers (n = 675) were asked to indicate their preferred superlative variants of the adjectives used in n = 120 systematically manipulated prompt sentences. The data enable us to quantify the effects of seven contextual constraints and four speaker variables on the superlative alternation.

Abstract of related publication: This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the phonotactics of syllable rhymes based on all unique tokens in two Early Old French texts. Based on the data from this single, conservative variety, I develop Jacobs’ (1994) proposal that the Old French stress rule is underlyingly trochaic and that word-final stress is caused by the presence of an empty-headed final syllable. I argue that this analysis can only be valid while words with final stress systematically end in a consonant that can, and often must, be parsed as the onset to an empty-headed syllable. Although this is not the case in most later varieties of Old French, the prediction is borne out by our data. I conclude by examining the implications of this analysis for the accentuation and phonotactics of monosyllables and for the study of prosodic change Old French. Description of dataset: Data containing phonologically transcribed forms from two Old French texts, the Life of St. Alexis (AlexisRaM) and the Song of Roland (RolMoign) which form the basis of the analysis in the accompanying paper. Forms, lemmas and morphosyntactic tags were extracted from the Base de français médiéval (http://txm.bfm-corpus.org/). All remaining annotation was semi-automatically added by the author. The scripts used to generate the phonological transcriptions are still under active development and are available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/syllabic-verse-analysis/.