Guangtian Ha

Andrew Nevins

Jonathas de Andrade

Anderson Almeida-Silva

Xenia Benivolski

Chung Yung-Feng

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen

Hsia Hsiao-Chuan

Hu Wei

Mi Chan Wai

Laurel V. McLaughlin

Musquiqui Chihying

Moe Satt

Zeng Yu Kun

Te is an annual bilingual publication of contemporary art and cultural anthropology. Each issue expands on a selected theme that inspires us to invite practitioners in diverse fields to explore and reflect on the dynamic cultural landscapes across regions. Recurring motifs include the fluidity of cultures, languages, and beliefs in specific communities and the adaptation of individual narratives to the shifting social and geopolitical environment.The name te comes from the Hokkien pronunciation of "tea": [dæ]. The shifts in its sound are evidence of the globalizing forces in motion through human history: te traveled from Quanzhou, Fujian, along the Maritime Silk Routes to Europe, where it became "tea". Although the pronunciation of "tea" is alive as part of the global lingua franca, few have an idea of its etymology and or the interest to trace its evolution. Therefore, we hope to create a publication that embraces movement and fluidity. An essential condition of the contemporary, fluidity fosters cross-disciplinary practices that we aim to showcase through written words and images. We hope to delineate phenomena sprouting in the liminal space where cultural values, material advancements, individual and community aspirations, and institutional practices meet, often in misalignment.We never imagined that globalization aspirations would be so abruptly arrested by the cold realities of a pandemic. "Isolation" seems to be the only common vocabulary of our time. Stranded on individual islands, people feel besieged by flaring nationalist sentiments and ideological confrontations that exasperate through their screens. . If ideology is like a vast ocean, then te shall be a pebble thrown into the water. These subtle ripples are the responses and dialogues that ensue, informed by personal experiences and honest reflections, no matter how modest in reach, would be the reward we cherish.

Song of the Nightingale

Te Magazine No.2

This work offers phonologists new evidence that viewing vowel harmony through the lens of relativized minimality has the potential to unify different levels of linguistic representation and different domains of empirical inquiry in a unified framework.

Locality in Vowel Harmony

Anita Peti-Stantic

Mark de Vos

Jana Willer-Gold

This volume draws on insights from a range of theoretical perspectives to explore objects, agreement, and their intersecting angles, based on novel data from multiple language families. The chapters explores the mechanics of object agreement, constraints on symmetry, features of object agreement, and issues relating to the left periphery.

Angles of Object Agreement

Geoff Lindsey

Sonic Signatures is devoted to the representation of sound patterns and sound structures across a diverse range of typologically distinct languages with the overall aim of understanding the nature of linguistic data structures from a principled balance between representational economy and the interfaces of phonology with other domains, including acoustic and visual. The volume embraces data spanning from Nivkh vowel harmony to Maxakalí sign language, and from the representation of consonant clusters in adult Laurentian French and to those found in child Greek and child Brazilian Portuguese. The volume strives towards concrete commitments to the theoretical understanding of empirical territory both familiar but with a novel take (English stress) and novel but with immediate relevance (Hungarian suffix allomorphy). With authors contributing from five continents, the book offers a range of perspectives on the representation of sound patterns, while nonetheless retaining a tight focus on the core questions of which characteristics and signatures are specifically encoded for these patterns in the phonological component of the language faculty.

Sonic Signatures

Luiz Amaral

Marcus Maia

Tom Roeper

Recursion and self-embedding are at the heart of our ability to formulate our thoughts, articulate our imagination and share with other human beings. Nonetheless, controversy exists over the extent to which recursion is shared across all domains of syntax. A collection of 18 studies are presented here on the central linguistic property of recursion, examining a range of constructions in over a dozen languages representing great areal, typological and genetic diversity and spanning wide latitudes. The volume expands the topic to include prepositional phrases, possessives, adjectives, and relative clauses - our many vehicles to express creative thought - to provide a critical perspective on claims about how recursion connects to broader aspects of the mind. Parallel explorations across language families, literate and non-literate societies, children and adults are investigated and constitutes a new step in the generative tradition by simultaneously focusing on formal theory, acquisition and experimentation, and ecologically-sensitive fieldwork, and initiates a new community where these diverse experts collaborate.

Recursion across Domains

Asaf Bachrach

A recurrent issue in linguistic theory and psychology concerns the cognitive status of memorized lists and their internal structure. In morphological theory, the collections of inflected forms of a given noun, verb, or adjective into inflectional paradigms are thought to constitute one such type of list. This book focuses on the question of which elements in a paradigm can stand in a relation of partial or total phonological identity. Leading scholars consider inflectional identity from a variety of theoretical perspectives, with an emphasis on both case studies and predictive theories of where syncretism and other "paradigmatic pressures" will occur in natural language. The authors consider phenomena such as allomorphy and syncretism while exploring questions of underlying representations, the formal properties of markedness, and the featural representation of conjugation and declension classes. They do so from the perspective of contemporary theories of morphology and phonology, including Distributed Morphology and Optimality Theory, and in the context of a wide range of languages, among them Amharic, Greek, Romanian, Russian, Saami, and Yiddish. The subjects addressed in the book include the role of featural decomposition of morphosyntactic features, the status of paradigms as the unit of syncretism, asymmetric effects in identity-dependence, and the selection of a base-of-derivation. The Bases of Inflectional Identity will interest linguists and cognitive scientists, especially students and scholars of phonological theory and the phonology-morphology and mind-language interfaces at graduate level and above.

Inflectional Identity

Simona Mancini

Sendy Caffarra

Successful speaking and understanding hinges on the almost effortless capacity of speakers to decode and build dependencies among words in a sentence, based on covariance in some specific feature(s). Whenever two features covary, an agreement relation is established. Agreement is a widespread and varied phenomenon: its pervasiveness in some languages contrasts with its near absence in others, which poses a challenge for linguists and psycholinguists that attempt to explain the mechanics of its representation, processing and acquisition. Agreement has been extensively investigated from a theoretical perspective, but also from the point of view of psycholinguistics and the cognitive neuroscience of language. Theoretical linguistics has provided an articulated system of structural representations and computations on which the establishment of agreement relations hinges, while psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience have aimed at unveiling the algorithms that underlie the use of these computations and their behavioral and neuro-physiological bases. The goal of this Research Topic is to draw together multiple and interdisciplinary work to highlight the state of the art in the study of agreement and propose new perspectives on this research topic.

Featural Relations in the Brain: Theoretical and Experimental Perspectives on Grammatical Agreement

Explores two important phenomena in natural language - recursion and embedding - integrating current linguistic theory, cross-linguistic fieldwork, and specific acquisition and experimental techniques.

Recursion Across Domains

Andrew Nevins

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