Kevin Heffernan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kevin Heffernan plays a role.
Articles
2017 Relative frequency and the holistic processing of morphology: Evidence from a corpus of vernacular Japanese Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:1, pp. 67–94 | Article
This study presents apparent-time changes in the morphology of the expression mitai-na ‘similar to’. Based on apparent-time data, we argue that the morphological boundary between mitai and the attributive morpheme -na in the phrase mitai-na has disappeared, and that this complex phrase is now… read more
2017 Morphological relative frequency impedes the use of stylistic variants: Evidence from a corpus of vernacular Japanese Asia-Pacific Language Variation 3:2, pp. 200–231 | Article
The sociolinguistic enterprise has demonstrated that speakers manipulate linguistic variants as they construct their speech style. Contrary to this expectation, this study introduces specific cases in which stylistic variation is highly constrained. We examine the verbal negative suffix in Kansai… read more
2010 Preserving Canada’s ‘honour’: Ideology and diachronic change in Canadian spelling variants Written Language & Literacy 13:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
Recent studies of orthographic variation have demonstrated that ideology plays a central role in determining which spelling variants are adopted by a community. This study examines the role of ideology in diachronic changes in spelling variant usage in Canadian English. Previous research has shown… read more