Issue 8 of San Diego Linguistics Papers, our online working papers series, has just been published and is freely available. It was edited by Yuan Chai, Neşe Demir, Duk-Ho Jung, and Nina Hagen Kaldho, and includes five papers by our graduate students, encompassing theoretical and empirical work on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,semantics, pragmatics, and fieldwork:
- Yuan Chai, “The source of creak in Mandarin”
- Yaqian Huang, “A mixed height and ATR system of vowels in Rere”
- Seoyeon Jang, “A compositional semantic analysis of echo questions in Korean”
- Nina Hagen Kaldhol, “Grammatical gender agreement with nominal compounds in Somali”
- Maxine Van Doren, “Intrinsic fundamental frequency of Amharic vowels”