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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-03-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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Learning how to think like a linguist: Linguistic reasoning as a focal point in L1 grammar education Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Jimmy H. M. van Rijt
In recent years, the gap between academic linguistics and language education has become increasingly apparent, hindering the effective transmission of linguistic knowledge to students. This paper presents an overview of recent empirical research (mostly originating in the Netherlands) that seeks to bridge this gap by teaching students how to think like linguists within the context of L1 grammar education
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How the US Oath of Allegiance weakens citizenship, encodes discrimination, and muddies the moment of becoming Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Emily Feuerherm, Ariel Loring
Swearing a naturalisation oath, such as the US oath of allegiance, is the culminating step of naturalised citizenship and a moment that exposes tensions between linguistic theory and the law. Drawing on speech act theory, discourse analysis, and ethnography, this article exposes these tensions by deconstructing the language and history of the US naturalisation oath, its role in naturalisation ceremonies
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Situating language and music research in a domain-specific versus domain-general framework: A review of theoretical and empirical data Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Katerina Drakoulaki, Christina Anagnostopoulou, Maria Teresa Guasti, Barbara Tillmann, Spyridoula Varlokosta
While many theoretical proposals about the relationship between language and music processing have been proposed over the past 40 years, recent empirical advances have shed new light on this relationship. Many features are shared between language and music, inspiring research in the fields of linguistic theory, systematic musicology, and cognitive (neuro-)science. This research has led to many and
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Impersonal morphosyntax in generative grammar Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Carol Rose Little
Impersonal constructions describe generic statements, usually about people. In this article, I discuss implications of impersonal constructions for Generative theories of morphological features, grammatical case, verbal projections, and how referentiality is derived in the syntax.
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-01-06
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Structural priming: An experimental paradigm for mapping linguistic representations Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Zhenguang G. Cai, Nan Zhao
Previous reviews have extensively explored structural priming, but there is a noticeable absence of comprehensive discussion on its potential as a tool for mapping linguistic representations in various fields. This paper addresses this gap by reviewing studies that have utilised structural priming to tackle psycholinguistic issues beyond the persistence of syntactic structures itself. We discuss how
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Annotation for computational argumentation analysis: Issues and perspectives Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Anna Lindahl, Lars Borin
Argumentation has long been studied in a number of disciplines, including several branches of linguistics. In recent years, computational processing of argumentation has been added to the list, reflecting a general interest from the field of natural language processing (NLP) in building natural language understanding systems for increasingly intricate language phenomena. Computational argumentation
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-12-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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Correction to “Phonology of proper names” Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-12-04
Tanaka, Y. (2023). Phonology of proper names. Language and Linguistics Compass 17(5), e12502. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12502 On page 4 paragraph 1, underlines are missing. The whole paragraph should be: The first element is, ambiguously, a proper name or common noun. There were two possible output blend forms for each case (italics and underlining indicate the segmental correspondences between
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-11-12
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Equivalence in dictionary and text Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Elizaveta Kotorova
The present paper deals with the problem of interlingual equivalence in vocabulary, text translation and intercultural communication and proposes a novel approach to this problem based on ideas from prototype theory and field theory. Within this approach, interlingual equivalence is defined not as the relation between two lexemes, but as the relation between a lexeme and a semantic field. The first
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Linguistic prosody in autism spectrum disorder—An overview Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Martine Grice, Simon Wehrle, Martina Krüger, Malin Spaniol, Francesco Cangemi, Kai Vogeley
Linguistic prosody involves the rhythm and melody of speech. It implicitly enhances or modifies the explicit meaning of spoken words. The literature on linguistic prosody related to autism spectrum disorder deals both with the production and perception of a broad range of linguistic functions. These functions range from the formal encoding of grammatical features (e.g. lexical stress, syntactic structure)
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Phonology of proper names Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Yu Tanaka
Linguistic research on proper names has mostly focused on their semantic and syntactic aspects, with relatively little attention being paid to their phonology. This article provides an exploratory overview of issues surrounding the sound patterns of proper names. Some studies argue that names in general tend to resist alternations due to name-specific faithfulness, and that complex names can behave
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Categorical versus gradient grammar in phonotactics Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Fernando C. Alves
Within the past 2 decades, probabilistic grammars have been put forward in the study of phonotactics as a necessary device to model gradient acceptability of lexical forms. This implicitly suggests that categorical grammars cannot even in principle account for such gradience. Most importantly, influential research has proposed that grammatical forms described by categorical grammars could be simply
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Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Lauren Gawne, Gretchen McCulloch
Communicating linguistics to broader audiences (lingcomm) can be achieved most effectively by drawing on insights from across the fields of linguistics, science communication (scicomm), pedagogy and psychology. In this article we provide an overview of work that examines lingcomm as a specific practice. We also give an overview of the Lingthusiasm podcast, and discuss four major ways that we incorporate
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-07-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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Third language phonological acquisition: Understanding sound structure in a multilingual world Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Di Wang, Claire Nance
The field of third language acquisition has gathered increased attention over the last three decades. However, phonological acquisition in an L3 is still relatively understudied within the field, despite there likely being over a billion people regularly using an L3 worldwide. In this paper, we review experimental and theoretical studies of sequential L3 acquisition to date and aim to give implications
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Thematic separation in light of sentence comprehension Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-06-29 E. Matthew Husband
Thematic relations are traditionally analysed as projecting into derivations of sentence meanings from the lexical content of verbs. Thematic separation, a natural outgrowth of event semantics, proposes an alternative to this tradition: thematic relations are introduced into derivations by verb-independent elements and are, therefore, grammatically separate from the lexical content of verbs. Although
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The phonology of Atchan Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-06-25 Katherine R. Russell
Atchan is a Kwa language spoken by approximately 150,000 people in and around Abidjan in southern Côte d’Ivoire. In this paper, I describe aspects of the phonology of Atchan, including its consonant and vowel inventory, syllable structure, patterns of nasalisation, and lexical and grammatical tone. I provide examples from primary data collected in collaboration with native speakers of Atchan. This
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Researcher positionality in linguistics: Lessons from undergraduate experiences in community-centered collaborative research Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Mary Bucholtz, Eric W. Campbell, Teresa Cevallos, Veronica Cruz, Alexia Z. Fawcett, Bethany Guerrero, Katie Lydon, Inî G. Mendoza, Simon L. Peters, Griselda Reyes Basurto
Researcher positionality has come into focus in a number of fields, as scholars increasingly acknowledge the impact of their lived experiences and identities on all aspects of the research process. In most areas of linguistics, however, researcher positionality remains underdiscussed, even as many linguists from dominant groups conduct research on the language of subordinated groups without community
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-25
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The potential of sociolinguistic impact: Lessons from the first 50 years Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Walt Wolfram
Along with its focus on foundational research, one of the enduring concerns of variationist sociolinguistics over the past half-century has been a tradition of application and engagement. As research paradigms have developed in variation studies, so have traditions of engagement with issues of social and educational language equality. In the formative era of the field, the primary concern of engagement
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Sociolinguistic prompts in the 21st century: Uniting past approaches and current directions Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Betsy Sneller, Adam Barnhardt
As technology (particularly smartphone and computer technology) has advanced, sociolinguistic methodology has likewise adapted to include remote data collection. Remote methods range from approximating the traditional sociolinguistic interview via synchronous video conferencing to developing new methods for asynchronous self-recording (Boyd et al., 2015; Leeman et al., 2020). In this paper, we take
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Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Wendy Elvira-García
Human self-domestication refers to a new evolutionary hypothesis about human origins. According to this view, humans have experienced changes that are similar to those observed in domesticated mammals and that have provided us with many of the behavioural, and perhaps cognitive pre-requisites for supporting our complex social practices and advanced culture. At the core of this hypothesis is the claim
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To what extent does the general public endorse language myths? Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Laura Wagner, Sumurye Awani, Nikole D. Patson, Rebekah Stanhope
This paper reports on an investigation of adults' level of endorsement of 18 language myths, including myths about non-mainstream dialects of English, children's language development, bilingualism, linguistic diversity across the world, the use of English in the language arts, and the job of a linguist. Participants (N = 187) read short vignettes of situations related to each misconception and were
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-04-26
No abstract is available for this article.
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Towards establishing what linguists think the general public should know about language: Salient versus important issues in linguistics Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Tomas Lehecka, Jan-Ola Östman
In order to develop effective strategies of science communication and public outreach in linguistics, one needs to choose what topics to prioritise in such efforts. We carried out a global online survey study among experts in linguistics (n = 538) asking what they perceive as the most important facts about language that the general public should be aware of. We used two distinct methods to collect
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Discourse-level adaptation in pronoun comprehension Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Yining Ye, Jennifer E. Arnold
It is well established that people adapt to statistical regularities at phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels. Much less is known about adaptation to discourse-level structures, such as adaptation to structures defined as the relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent. To fill this gap, this paper reviews studies on the learning of referential patterns by asking (1) do people represent
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-22
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-16
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Using principal component analysis to explore co-variation of vowels Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Joshua Wilson Black, James Brand, Jen Hay, Lynn Clark
This paper presents a methodology for exploring systematic co-variation of vowels using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). As a case study, we examine and build on Brand et al.'s (2021) study of systematic co-variation amongst the monophthongs of New Zealand English (NZE) across speakers born over a 118-year time period. We present PCA as a methodology, with information aimed at readers who may themselves
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Naomi Shin
Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors. This article reviews the limited research on bilingual children's structured variation, focussing
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Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Tracey L. Weldon
Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle the stigma associated with working class vernacular varieties
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-31
No abstract is available for this article.
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Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5–7 year-olds: Insights from psychological research Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Catherine Davies, Kristen Syrett, Lucy Taylor, Samantha Wilkes, Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez
Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation subjects, children are expected to describe, measure, classify, and compare objects and events—all processes that require a mastery of adjective meanings and use. While teachers are trained in vocabulary learning, they may be less familiar
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-07
No abstract is available for this article.
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(Socio)linguistic indices of the codification of Nigerian English Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
Although many studies in world Englishes research have examined the sociocultural and political factors that shape the development of varieties of English in non-native contexts, there has been limited work on the range of codificatory instruments that engender the standardisation of these ‘new’ Englishes, especially in specific reference to Nigerian English (NE). Examining the extent of the codification
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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan) Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Ryan Bennett, Meg Harvey, Robert Henderson, Tomás Alberto Méndez López
Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, and glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure
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Computational sociophonetics using automatic speech recognition Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Rolando Coto-Solano
Recent years have seen numerous advances in natural language processing that can help accelerate sociophonetic work. These include software to align speech recordings with their transcriptions, as well as to transcribe audio automatically. This solves a major bottleneck and will help process larger datasets and test hypotheses more efficiently. This paper will summarise recent progress, highlight relevant
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Taking language science to zoom school: Virtual outreach to elementary school students Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-09-11 Kathleen E. Oppenheimer, Lauren K. Salig, Craig A. Thorburn, Erika L. Exton
We describe guest speaker presentations that we developed to bring language science to elementary school students via videoconference. By using virtual backgrounds and guided discovery learning, we effectively engage children as young as 7 years in in-depth explorations of language science concepts. We share the core principles that guide our presentations and describe two of our outreach activities
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Metre, grouping, and event hierarchies in music: A tutorial for linguists Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Jonah Katz
This paper reviews some basic elements of musical structure, drawing from work in traditional and cognitive musicology, ethnomusicology, psychology, and generative textsetting. Music features two different hierarchical representational components that can both be visualised in grid notation: metrical structure and event hierarchies (also referred to as Time-Span Reduction). Metrical structure is an
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-09-01
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The phonology of Guébie Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Hannah Sande
Guébie is an Eastern Kru language spoken by about 7000 people in the Gagnoa prefecture of Côte d’Ivoire. This paper provides an overview of the phonology of Guébie, including the complex tone system with four contrastive pitch heights, multiple types of vowel harmony, reduplication in multiple morphosyntactic contexts, CVCV/CCV alternations, and the phonotactic behaviour of implosives as sonorant-like
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Reallocation: How new forms arise from contact Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Cristopher Font-Santiago, Mirva Johnson, Joseph Salmons
In the last 35 years, ‘reallocation’ has come to be widely used to describe how structural linguistic features in contact settings may remain as part of a new language variety and take on new functions as sociolinguistic variables rather than be lost over time, as is typically expected in koineization contexts. Classic examples involve originally regional differences that come to carry social, grammatical
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-08-03
No abstract is available for this article.
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Language generality in phonological encoding: Moving beyond Indo-European languages Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-07-08 John Alderete, Padraig G. O'Séaghdha
Theories of phonological encoding are centred on the selection and activation of phonological segments, and how these segments are organised in word and syllable structures in online processes of speech planning. The focus on segments, however, is due to an over-weighting of evidence from Indo-European languages, because languages outside this family exhibit strikingly different behaviour and require
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-07-04
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-05-26
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Ageing well: Social but also biological reasons for age-grading Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Míša Hejná, Anna Jespersen
The theory of language change has worked primarily with four basic language change profiles: generational change, age-grading, communal change, and stability. This paper focuses primarily on age-grading, the process whereby each generation undergoes a specific language change at the same age-related stage within their lifespan. Despite the necessary influence of biological change on the ageing body
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Globalising the study of language variation and change: A manifesto on cross-cultural sociolinguistics Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Aria Adli, Gregory R. Guy
Sociolinguistic study of variation and change has a long-standing bias towards speech communities in Western and especially Anglophone societies. We argue that our field requires a much wider scope for variation studies, which puts more emphasis on culturally contextualised social meaning in the full range of human societies. The pursuit of understanding, generalizations, and even universals in the
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Clitics, anti-clitics, and weak words: Towards a typology of prosodic and syntagmatic dependence Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Tim Zingler
Some reference grammars and cross-linguistic works describe all elements that are not clear-cut words as “clitics.” As a consequence of this practice, the class of suggested clitics is highly heterogeneous, which reduces the usefulness of the “clitic” label as a whole. In response to this situation, a more nuanced typology of grammatical forms is proposed here. The argument crucially relies on the
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Participation in sociolinguistic research Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Csanád Bodó, Blanka Barabás, Noémi Fazakas, Judit Gáspár, Bernadett Jani-Demetriou, Petteri Laihonen, Veronika Lajos, Gergely Szabó
Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involved and engaged in the research process. This paper aims at reviewing the state of the art and outlining critical dimensions and aspects
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-04-01
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A tutorial on articulatory muscles and ArtiSynth: Tongue and suprahyoid muscles, and 3D tongue model Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Hayeun Jang
This article has two main purposes: (i) to review the placement and function of the tongue and suprahyoid muscles concerning speech articulation, and (ii) as a biomechanical simulation tool to study how those muscles are involved in articulation, to introduce a 3D tongue model distributed by a 3D modelling platform called ArtiSynth. The 3D tongue model can be combined with other structural models to
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-03-01
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Issue Information Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-01-31
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Micro-prosody Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Jason A. Shaw
This article introduces micro-prosody as the study of the duration and timing of speech events. We present a descriptive framework, formalising micro-prosody in terms of gestural landmarks and coordination relations between them, and we use the framework to illustrate different patterns of micro-prosody across languages. We show that potential ambiguity between coordination relations can be resolved
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Fathers' infant-directed speech and its effects on child language development Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Naja Ferjan Ramírez
Infant-directed speech (IDS), a speaking style distinguished by its higher pitch, slower tempo, and exaggerated intonation, has been documented in speech directed towards infants across many cultures and languages. Previous research shows that IDS in the context of parent-infant interactions is associated with advances in children's language learning. While we have long known that fathers, like mothers