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Re-investigating the classification of definite CL-NP constructions in Chinese dialect: An empirical study based on semantic maps Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Junyi Xu, Chenliang Zhou
This study aims to assess the fitness of the “quasi-article/quasi-demonstrative” framework for classifying definite classifiers in varieties of Chinese. Taking the Suzhou (Wu) variety of Chinese as our target, we utilize an approach of the Probabilistic Semantic Maps within a trilingual parallel corpus (English-Mandarin-Suzhou Wu). Contrary to the earlier understanding that only one type of definite
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Offers in Nigerian English Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Ulrike Gut, Foluke Unuabonah, Florence Daniel, Anika Gerfer, Rotimi Oladipupo, Folajimi Oyebola
This article is concerned with the speech act of offers in educated Nigerian English within a variational pragmatics approach. In particular, this study explores the offer strategies chosen by Nigerian English speakers and the effect the speakers’ and hearers’ social status and social distance, the type of offer and formality of the context might have on them. A total of 325 Nigerian respondents filled
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Gender classification of Korean personal names: Deep neural networks versus human judgments Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hyesun Cho
In many languages, female and male names have different phonotactic characteristics. The name–gender relationship is probabilistic; therefore, it can be captured more adequately using stochastic models than deterministic phonological theories. In this study, a total of 6,000 most commonly used names (3,000 for each gender) in Korean were used to train a deep neural network (DNN), which is an ensemble
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We have to ensure that… A contrastive corpus-based analysis of English situation manipulators and their Polish translation equivalents Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 T, a, t, i, a, n, a, , S, z, c, z, y, g, ł, o, w, s, k, a
This article investigates how selected English formulaic sequences, functioning as situation manipulators (SMs) used for the expression of directive stance and belonging to the category of lexical bundles, are translated into Polish. Using parallel and monolingual reference corpora, the study aims to analyse the Polish equivalents of the specific set of SMs found in European parliamentary debates to
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Negative PPs and Negative Inversion Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Kwang-sup Kim
This study explores various issues related to negative PPs, focusing on (i) why some negative PPs trigger negative inversion, whereas some do not, (ii) why negative phrases can have scope beyond their c-domain, and (iii) why the distribution of negative PPs is restricted. This study is divided into two parts. The first part demonstrates that negative phrases exhibit a pattern similar to -phrases. They
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Adult heritage speakers of Spanish in the US and subject placement in presentational unaccusative sentences: How are their grammars constrained? Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Chiyo Nishida, Adrián Rodríguez Riccelli, Casilde A. Isabelli
Adult heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish show Subject-Verb (SV)/Verb-Subject (VS) word-order variation in unaccusative sentences marking sentence focus, while monolingual speakers favor VS, as in ‘Sara arrived’. Yet, few empirical studies have explored the distributional rates and patterns associated with this word-order variation in perception and production among HSs. We examine the variable-rule
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Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Henna Tamminen, Teija Kujala, Maija S. Peltola
Training of a foreign language speech sound pair may lead to the formation of new memory traces in young adults who are not very experienced in the target language, as well as to the strengthening of existing memory traces in advanced target language students. We used listen-and-repeat training to test whether previously formed memory traces exist approximately a year later. Further, we compared these
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The lexical semantics of personality words: On ‘shy’ and ‘outgoing’ Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Alena Kazmaly
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Quirky subjects in nonactive sentences in Albanian Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Giuseppina Turano
In this paper, I explore the syntax of two quirky Albanian subject constructions, both containing a dative experiencer that surfaces in subject position and behaves like a subject even if it does not induce agreement with the verb, along with an object bearing the nominative case, triggering agreement on the verb. The first type of quirky subject construction is characterised by the restriction of
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A cognitive psychological model of linguistic intuitions: Polysemy and predicate order effects in copredication sentences Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Christian Michel, Guido Löhr
Copredication is the phenomenon that two or more predicates can jointly apply to the same argument. In “The book is heavy and informative” the word seems to refer to both a concrete physical object that can be heavy and an abstract content that can be informative. It has been observed that if the concrete sense of the nominal is triggered first, the copredication statement often sounds better compared
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Variation in formant dynamics of L1 and L2 Spanish vowels Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sofía Romanelli, Camilo Vélez-Agudelo
The present study describes the nature of the dynamic spectral changes of Spanish vowels /a e o/ produced by 10 native Spanish (L1) speakers and 13 native English speakers learning Spanish as a second language (L2). The investigation seeks to identify variations in formant change through the application of both two- and three-point measures, evaluating their efficacy in capturing the formant dynamics
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Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Sara Košutar, Marija Jozipović, Gordana Hržica
Narration requires the appropriate use of reference, which can be particularly challenging in stories with many characters of the same gender, especially for people with language disorders. This study investigates referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia (PwA) and typical speakers (TS) by observing reference in general and depending on the potential ambiguity of the situation
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Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Birgit Spechtenhauser, Ulrike Jessner
Originally, scholarly discussions of metalinguistic awareness (MeLA), as a distinct concept, primarily focused on monolinguals. However, increasing scientific attention has more recently been paid to multiple language learning, which poses new challenges in this area of linguistic-cognitive research. This article first discusses a holistic and dynamic view of multilingual development and portrays MeLA
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Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Qianying Zhao, Jingyang Jiang
This study is intended to examine the syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage. Based on probabilistic valency patterns, a wider variety and a larger number of syntactic functions were investigated. The distributional data of these syntactic functions show significant differences between interlanguage and the target language and between interlanguage at different
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Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Miaocai Yan, Ye Yuan
This study explores the hierarchical structures of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections with a cartographic approach. We firstly revisit Mandarin aspectual expressions across three domains within a sentence, including preverbal aspectual adverbs, postverbal suffixes and sentence-final aspectual particles. Then we demonstrate that Mandarin aspectual projections are distributed in three zones (i.e
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Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Sílvia Gabarró-López
This paper describes the functions and variation in the use of palm-up in bidirectional French - LSFB (French Belgian Sign Language) interpreting. Data from final-year students of the Master’s degree in Sign Language Interpreting at UCLouvain (Belgium) were analysed. Results show that palm-up is polyfunctional in both datasets of interpreted productions. palm-up was used as co-speech gesture and in
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Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Danni Yu, Hang Su, Marina Bondi
This study explores the viability of applying the local grammar approach to speech act studies beyond English by developing a local grammar of apology in Italian. Drawing on data taken from the spoken Italian corpus of KIPTO, we identified nine functional terms that are commonly associated with the semantics of apologies in Italian. We subsequently used these terms to analyse instances of apologies
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Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Julia Davydova
This paper explores language contact phenomena (substrate und superstrate influence, universal learning strategies) in the speech of English-dominant, Hindi-dominant and bilingual speakers of Indian English. In so doing, it describes the nature and extent of linguistic variation that spans a broad sociolinguistic spectrum. The empirical basis of the study targets two domains of language: morpho-syntax
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On the margins of figurative thought and language Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Angeliki Athanasiadou
Figurative mechanisms, both mainstream and marginal, are pervasive in thought and language. While mainstream figures have been studied extensively and remain the focus of extensive ongoing research, marginal figurative mechanisms have either been overlooked or treated along with more commonly occurring figurative mechanisms. The present study reflects on the emphasis assigned to central figures of
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Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Ghattas Eid, Ingo Plag
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Metaphorical events in translation: Does language type matter? Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Wojciech Lewandowski, Şeyda Özçalışkan
Speakers across different languages structure a similar set of target domains (e.g., emotions, time, ideas) as spatial motion, relying on the same metaphorical mappings (abstract concept as moving entity; abstract concept as location). These crosslinguistic similarities co-occur with crosslinguistic differences in the lexicalization of the source domain, with some languages encoding manner more frequently
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Characterizing natural interpreters’ attitudes towards interpreting: The effect of experimental contexts Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Esther Álvarez de la Fuente, Raquel Fernández Fuertes
Bilingual children can perform natural interpreting in two different spontaneous settings, i.e., at home when acquiring their two languages and when practicing language brokering. In both cases, as natural interpreters and as child brokers, bilingual children can act as interpreters between two monolingual adults, although the scenario in which they interpret (domestic versus non-domestic settings
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Towards a domain-neutral prepositional semantics Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Andreas Widoff
Prepositions with a range over several conceptual domains are often described as polysemous between these domains. Typically, spatial senses are seen as basic, while temporal and abstract senses are assumed to be derived from space. The present article argues in favour of an alternative analysis in which domain-neutral properties of prepositions are used to account for similarities between instances
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Imageability norms for 90 English spatio-temporal prepositions and semantically similar expressions Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Seth Lindstromberg
Imageability norms are presented for 90 single- and multiword spatio-temporal expressions of English including classic prepositions (e.g., at, in front [of]), intransitive prepositions (e.g., away), and common combinations such as up against. This 90-item set is a substantial enlargement and enhancement of a 56-item set collected in relation to a recently published study of phrasal verbs. For nearly
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Versatile copulas and their stance-marking uses in conversational Odia, an Indo-Aryan language Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Foong Ha Yap, Anindita Sahoo
Recent typological studies have identified some major functions associated with copulas, including tense-aspect-mood (TAM) and agreement (AGR) marking. In this paper, using conversational data from Odia, an Indo-Aryan language, we examine the speaker stance functions in copula constructions. More specifically, in addition to focus marking as a highlighting strategy, we show how copulas help to anchor
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Variation in verbal negation in Jordanian Arabic: A corpus-based analysis Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Ekab Al-Shawashreh, Marwan Jarrah, Eman Al Khalaf
Jordanian Arabic (JA) has two main patterns for verbal negation, i.e., preverbal negation () and discontinuous negation ( …. ). This article provides a variationist account of the distribution of these two patterns in light of a number of social and linguistic factors. The social factors include age, gender, educational attainment and region. The linguistic factors, on the other hand, include the transitivity
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Towards a comprehensive pragmatic model of subjectivity: Empirical evidence from French Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-25 Cristina Grisot, Joanna Blochowiak
This paper delves into the phenomenon of subjectivity, with a particular focus on one of its components – perspective taking. It explores two linguistic cues categories: verb tenses in their perspectival usages and Free Indirect Discourse (FID). In this paper, we experimentally test how readers process sentences in which the French Passé Simple is employed in a perspectival manner within two types
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‘Jackpot!’: How social forces intertwine with language-internal mechanisms to turn Korean noun taypak into an interactive Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Mikyung Ahn, Foong Ha Yap
This study investigates how social forces and language-internal mechanisms interact to give rise to stance markers that reflect the speaker’s subjective and intersubjective stance. Using data from the NIKL (Motwuuy) Spoken Corpus and Daily Conversation Corpus and the Sejong Spoken Corpus, we examine how the Korean noun taypak (‘large gourd’) has become culturally associated with good fortune. With
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Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Ayumi Shimoyoshi
Psych(ological) verbs pose a problem to theories about argument realization that assume a uniform and universal mapping between semantic relations and syntactic configurations. A number of attempts try to explain variation in argument structure in terms of the aspectual differences, assuming that the argument realization of a predicate is a reflection of the temporal properties of the predicate to
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Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tomislav Stojanov
This article analyzes spelling-change conflicts linked to Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian. These standard languages share a long history of common sociopolitical identity and high mutual intelligibility, and the spelling standardization processes became embroiled in the Yugoslav disintegration process and the creation of new political entities. This study presents results from a 2022 survey
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“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Mark R. Freiermuth, Nurul Huda Hamzah
The development of cultural competences between interlocutors with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds has become a particularly fruitful area of interest in the L2 arena. One area that has not gained much attention is the role empathy plays in the development of cultural competences. In this exploratory study, five students with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds volunteered to
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Guyanais vs. Gardiol: Broken transmission vs. grammatical continuity Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Bart Jacobs
Inherent to the debate on creole genesis is the question of grammatical continuity between creoles and their lexifier languages. This issue, in turn, relates to the disputed claim that creoles descend from pidgins: proponents of that claim postulate a negligible degree of grammatical transmission from the lexifier into the creole and no genetic relatedness between them; opponents claim the reverse
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Attentional semantics of deictic locatives Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Kai-Uwe Carstensen
Since Bühler’s influential work on context-dependent, deictic expressions, much research has been devoted to the underlying concepts and cross-linguistic variation of linguistic deixis. Focussing on the semantics of deictic locatives like here and there, the present article starts with an overview of deictic theories and phenomena. It is shown that proposals which either utilize the semantic idea of
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Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Bingjun Yang, Hongmiao Gao
The original Hallidayan term “polarity metaphor” (PM) originally illustrated a linguistic phenomenon under interpersonal metaphor, but no further studies on PM have been seen in the literature since then. The present study thus aims to define and identify PM so as to add understanding to the theory of grammatical metaphor. Instances from the BNC have been observed and it is found that PM is a category
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Eye movements of adolescent students when reading Greeklish transliterations Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Ralia Thoma
This article aims to reopen the issue of Greeklish, the Latin-alphabet Greek used for the past 30 years, sparking a lot of debate in Greek society. Greeklish transliterations (phonetic, mixed, and orthographic) that are still used in digital environments have been associated with negative effects on students’ literacy skills. The current study used eye-tracking to examine the eye movement patterns
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Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Yueyue Huang, Dechao Li
Research on translation shifts, especially divergence in modality, that occur to English translations of Chinese research article abstracts is rare. The article aims to explore the linguistic changes in modality use, a linguistic device for expressing authors’ evaluative judgement, in the abstracts of Chinese research articles and their English translations. By adopting a three-step analytical coding
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Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Patrick D. Thane
The feature reassembly approach to second language acquisition research has been influential in laying the groundwork for recent theories of heritage languages. Lexical frequency has emerged as an important variable in recent studies within a feature-oriented approach to heritage language acquisition, but the focus on frequency has not yet received considerable attention with second language learners
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Attitudes towards Nigerian Englishes: Ethnic categorisation and underlying reasons for categorisation Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
There has been a dearth of studies in language attitude research focusing on the association between ethnic categorisation and underlying reasons for the categorisation of accents of Nigerian English. This paper examines the ethnic categorisation of speakers of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba Englishes and the reasons for categorising their accents into ethnic groups by 406 participants from three Nigerian
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Bound productivity in stem-formation and categorial separation Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Aysun Kunduracı
This study argues that individually unproductive processes of morphology can be highly productive for certain other tasks in sequential productions when they occur in combination with certain other processes. Unlike the relevant literature, which generally treats -(y)I as a phonological piece of the agentive suffixation in Modern Turkish, -(y)ICI, the study argues that -(y)I in instances like kır-ı-cı
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Syntactic simplification in interpreted English: Dependency distance and direction measures Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Han Xu, Kanglong Liu
This study investigates the simplification hypothesis in interpreting, as well as its cognitive implications, by examining features of syntactic dependency in three language varieties: English speech simultaneously interpreted from Chinese, original English speech produced by native speakers (L1 speech), and original English speech produced by non-native speakers (L2 speech). Two measures of the dependency
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Assessing structural language skills of autistic adults: Focus on sentence repetition Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Marta Manenti, Laurice Tuller, Emmanuelle Houy-Durand, Frédérique Bonnet-Brilhault, Philippe Prévost
Although autism is a life-long disorder, there is limited data on structural language abilities in adults, and a lack of language tools appropriate for this population. This study investigates the relevance of a sentence repetition (SR) task for assessing morphosyntactic abilities in autistic adults. The so-called LITMUS-SR-FR(ench)-Adults is an adaptation of a child SR task shown to be efficient for
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Waḷḷāhi (‘by God’) as a marker of commitment and involvement in Egyptian Arabic conversation Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Michal Marmorstein
This paper explores the interactional uses of the oath-expression waḷḷāhi ‘by God’ in Egyptian Arabic. Based on everyday conversational data (Arabic CALLHOME), and drawing on conversation-analytic and interactional linguistics methods, the analysis shows that waḷḷāhi rarely introduces a solemn act of swearing; rather, it is conventionally used as a marker expressing or inviting the expression of commitment
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Proximity, polarity and scalarity: A semantic study of approximative sentence-final particles in Cantonese Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Peppina Po-lun Lee
This paper studies the semantics of Cantonese approximative sentence-final particles mat1zai3 ‘MATZAI’ and gam3zai3 ‘GAMZAI’, which have their meaning predominantly determined by the polarity of the proposition. I argue that polarity sensitivity of mat1zai3 and gam3zai3 is due to their semantics as scalar operators, with their interpretations governed by two components. The proximal component requires
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The syntactic marking of emotional intensity: Psycholinguistic evidence from French Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Guillaume Desagulier, Mathilde de Saint-Léger, Karin Heidlmayr, Frédéric Isel
This behavioral study investigates the interplay between emotional intensity and syntactic linearization in French, i.e., the projection of mental syntax onto the speech flow. Four marked syntactic constructions introduced by a focus of attention at the beginning of a clause were selected: (i) sentences introduced by a discourse marker; (ii) cleft sentences; (iii) adjective-noun verbless sentences;
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What is in a word? An exploration of the metaphorical use of schizophrenia in general American English Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Emilia Castaño Castaño
Research on the representation of schizophrenia in the media has revealed that it might have become the new illness as metaphor and that its pejorative metaphorical use is a determining factor in its negative public perception. Drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, this study presents the first systematic analysis of the use of “schizophrenia” as a metaphor beyond the media by examining the use, distribution
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Modality effect in interactive alignment: Differences between spoken and text-based conversation Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Marek Placiński, Przemysław Żywiczyński
A distinctive feature of dialogue is the convergence of linguistic choices. The Interactive Alignment Model posits that this convergence is obtained by a mechanism of priming that operates at all levels of linguistic representation. Under the model, priming is supposed to foster mutual understanding. Experimental research has confirmed that priming increases language production and comprehension ease
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Metadiscourse in academic writing: A systematic review Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 William S. Pearson, Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh
A means to control how writers mark their presence, negotiate knowledge claims, and engage with their audience, metadiscourse is one of the most prominent approaches to analysing academic writing. The present systematic review attempts to take stock of the existing literature by investigating how metadiscourse has been researched in academic writing by analysing a sample of 370 high-quality empirical
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Visualizing prosodic structure: Manual gestures as highlighters of prosodic heads and edges in English academic discourses Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Patrick Louis Rohrer, Elisabeth Delais-Roussarie, Pilar Prieto
Research has shown a close temporal relationship between prominence-lending tonal movements in speech and prominence in manual gesture. However, prosodic structure consists of not only prosodic heads (i.e., pitch accentuation) but also prosodic edges. To our knowledge, no previous studies have assessed the value of prosodic edges (nuclear vs. phrase-initial prenuclear pitch accents) as anchoring sites
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Declarative intonation of Japanese-Spanish bilinguals in Spanish casual speech Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Tanya L. Flores
This study presents an analysis of Spanish intonation produced by native speakers of Japanese. The analysis focuses on the nuclear configurations of 828 declarative tokens in the semi-spontaneous Spanish speech of 12 Japanese-Spanish bilingual speakers living in Valencia, Spain. Results of the analysis show that the speakers can produce the prosodic differences between two declarative utterance types
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Expressions of interest in research articles: Geo-academic location and time as influencing factors Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Qian Wang, Guangwei Hu
Linguistic expressions of interest that signal academic authors’ epistemic attitude toward propositional content in their research articles are inherently associated with knowledge-making practices. Drawing on a semantic frame developed for expressions of interest, this study examined how an academic author’s geo-academic location and time of publication mediated the deployment of such interest markers
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Anaphora resolution and age effects in Greek-Spanish bilingualism: Evidence from first-generation immigrants, heritage speakers, and L2 speakers Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-19
The present study compares anaphora resolution (AR) data from Greek and Spanish monolinguals and Greek-Spanish bilinguals who live in Chile to identify differences in resolving third-person null subjects (NSs) and overt pronominal subjects (OSPs) in ambiguous non-focused linguistic contexts. Overextension of the scope of OSPs in contexts where NSs are discursively expected has been consistently observed
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Definiteness in plural reference in Shaoxing Wu Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-13
This study reports a previously undescribed strategy for definite plural reference in the Wu dialect of Shaoxing: liaŋ22-CL-NP, where ‘liaŋ22′ together with a classifier marks a plural reference. We examine in depth its behaviours in different definite environments. We then show that the ‘liaŋ22-CL-NP’ structure is predominantly used to represent a definite plural in typical definite contexts, except
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Mixtec negative existential cycles, standard negation and negative indefiniteness Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-12
In Mixtec scholarship one finds hesitant claims that Mixtec standard negators (‘not’) derive from or are related to existential ones (‘there is not’). The data are complex, not least because there are several standard and existential negators. This paper confirms these claims, with reference to current typological theorizing on the “Negative Existential Cycle” and provides as full an account as possible
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Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Gil Verbeke, Ellen Simon
This study investigates how well English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners report understanding (i.e. comprehensibility) and actually understand (i.e. intelligibility) native and non-native accents of English, and how EFL learners’ self-reported ease of understanding and actual understanding of these accents are aligned. Thirty-three Dutch-speaking EFL learners performed a comprehensibility and
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Intersubjective understanding in finger braille interpreter-mediated interaction: Two case studies of other-initiated repair Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Mayumi Bono, Rui Sakaida, Kanato Ochiai, Satoshi Fukushima
This study analyzed data obtained from interviews with a deafblind man (DBM), mediated by Japanese finger braille interpreters (FBIs), to explore the negotiation of intersubjective understanding between participants. The DBM in this study co-invented a system of finger braille communication with his mother. He usually used two modalities to communicate with hearing and sighted others: Japanese voicing
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Intertwined grammaticalization, degrammaticalization, and pragmaticalization: The case of ppwun ‘share’ in Korean Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Seongha Rhee
This paper investigates the developmental paths and synchronic functions of one of the Korean defective nouns, i.e., ppwun ‘the only thing’, which originated from a full noun pwun ‘share’. Since the earliest data already show a number of grammaticalized functions, this paper attempts to reconstruct the developmental paths based on the semantic and morphosyntactic clues, making use of the synchrony-for-diachrony
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A corpus-based analysis of the effect of syntactic complexity on disfluency in consecutive interpreting Lingua (IF 0.916) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Mingxia Shen, Yumeng Lin, Qianxi Lv, Junying Liang
This study investigates the effect of input and output syntactic complexity on disfluency based on the corpus of press conference interpreting. In line with widespread practice in quantitative linguistics, mean dependency distance has been taken as the metric here for quantifying syntactic complexity. As the occurrence of disfluency is count data, this study uses the Poisson regression model to evaluate