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Jennifer Hay
Researcher at University of Canterbury
Publications - 110
Citations - 5618
Jennifer Hay is an academic researcher from University of Canterbury. The author has contributed to research in topics: New Zealand English & Vowel. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 101 publications receiving 5007 citations. Previous affiliations of Jennifer Hay include Victoria University of Wellington & Northwestern University.
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Scalar Structure Underlies Telicity in "Degree Achievements"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored and analyzed the specific problems associated with degree achievements in an effort to better understand the underpinnings of telicity, and examined their behavior with respect to several standard tests for (a) telicity.
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Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a merger-in-progress
TL;DR: It is argued that the results provide strong support for exemplar-based models of speech perception, in which exemplars are socially indexed, on the basis of an experiment involving the speech of four New Zealanders.
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Functions of humor in the conversations of men and women
TL;DR: In this article, the humor of New Zealand men and women was analyzed according to function and these functions were organized into a taxonomy of solidarity-based, power-based and psychological functions.
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Lexical frequency in morphology: Is everything relative?
TL;DR: This paper found that derived forms that are more frequent than their bases are significantly more likely to display symptoms of semantic drift than derived forms containing higher frequency bases, while low-frequency forms are no more prone to semantic drift.