Mary Ann Walter
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mary Ann Walter plays a role.
Articles
2020 Neuters to none: A diachronic perspective on loanword gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Historical Linguistics 2017: Selected papers from the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics, San Antonio, Texas, 31 July – 4 August 2017, Drinka, Bridget (ed.), pp. 473–488 | Chapter
This study documents a diachronic change in the status of neuter noun gender in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). Previous research demonstrates that the neuter class is closed in BCS (Simonović 2010), and that recent loanwords from western European languages fitting its phonological profile are… read more
2011 Probability matching in Arabic and Romance morphology Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposia on Arabic Linguistics, Broselow, Ellen and Hamid Ouali (eds.), pp. 203–244 | Article
This study investigates the role of probability matching in the selection of morphological lexical representations by adults. Whereas children rely on application of a morphological default that results in regularization, adults match probabilities with pre-existing lexical distributions. This… read more
2006 Pharyngealization Effects in Maltese Arabic Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics, Boudelaa, Sami (ed.), pp. 161–178 | Chapter