Lexical semantics in advanced second language French: The acquisition of genericity
Publication date: Available online 14 November 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Abdelkader HermasAbstractThe study considered the genericity of count nouns among L1 Arabic adult learners advanced in L2 French. The experimental task was a context-based acceptability judgment test on the interpretation of five nominal forms in NP-level and sentence-level generic contexts: definite, indefinite and bare singulars in addition to definite and bare plurals. The results revealed that the L2 learners did not perform to a nativelike degree. Additionally, their response pattern demonstrated that they did not differentiate between the two...
Source: Lingua - November 16, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“There are significant differences…”: The secret life of existential there in academic writing
Publication date: Available online 7 November 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Feng (Kevin) Jiang, Ken HylandAbstractWhile numerous interactive aspects of academic writing have attracted attention in recent years, one common feature which has escaped scrutiny is “existential there” (as in “there are significant differences”). Based on a corpus of 80 research articles from four disciplines, this study explores the ‘secret life’ of this construction, revealing how academic writers use it to organise their arguments and persuade peers of their claims. In contrast to the style guides which regard existential there as a...
Source: Lingua - November 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: November 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 231Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - October 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The varieties of verbal irony: a new neo-Gricean taxonomy
Publication date: Available online 25 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Arthur SullivanAbstractThis paper has two interconnected goals – one defensive and fairly conservative, the other more novel and enterprising. The first goal is to defend a broadly Gricean approach to verbal irony from the post-Gricean criticisms which have emerged in the intervening literature – i.e., all things considered, verbal irony is best viewed as one among many species of particularized conversational implicature. The subsequent goal is to work toward developing a significantly original theory of verbal irony, within this Gricean orient...
Source: Lingua - October 26, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Is dependency distance experiencing a process of minimization? A diachronic study based on the State of the Union addresses
Publication date: Available online 24 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Lei Lei, Ju WenAbstractDependency distance has been considered a valid measure of syntactic complexity, and it has been extensively investigated in various contexts. One interesting line of research focuses on the issue of dependency distance minimization. Studies have shown that dependency distance has been experiencing a process of minimization in order to adapt to the limited resource of human working memory. However, little is known of whether dependency distance also tends to minimize across a long span of time. If dependency distance tends to ...
Source: Lingua - October 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Formation of the Modern Chinese clause-taking imperative ni kan ‘you see’: A Conjoining pathway account
Publication date: Available online 24 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Haiping Long, Xiaoxian Xu, Mengyue Wu, Francesco-Alessio UrsiniAbstractThe formation of the clause-taking imperative ‘you see’ predicate (of literal meaning) is largely neglected in the discussions of the grammatical changes of ‘you see’ predicates, especially in the discussions of the formation of the parenthetical ‘you see’ predicates. The contextual properties of the Modern Chinese clause-taking imperative ni kan ‘you see’ (e.g., Ni kan ni de zhe ge zhenjiao zhi de tebie de zhengqi. ‘You see, you weave so well that the stitches ...
Source: Lingua - October 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Perceptions of and attitudes toward elastic language in online health communication in Chinese
Publication date: Available online 24 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Ming-Yu Tseng, Grace ZhangAbstractInformed by integrative pragmatics, elasticity theory and framing theory, this study attempts to understand how Chinese elastic language (EL) in the online health context is perceived. Drawing on data from online health information and based on the results of questionnaires distributed to 516 Taiwanese university students, this study investigates the perceptions of EL in online health information for the public. The questionnaire, containing six short excerpts in Chinese, is designed to gain the respondents’ perce...
Source: Lingua - October 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
CP-internal discourse particles and the split ForceP hypothesis
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Atsushi DohiAbstractThis paper examines some discourse particles in Italian and Japanese that occur directly in the CP zone. First, a recent proposal to split up ForceP into two projections based on observations of a group of discourse particles often referred to as modal particles is summarized. Then, it is argued that a sentence-initial particle tanto in Italian has quite similar characteristics to modal particles and therefore should be analyzed similarly to them. In particular, an account that presupposes covert movement of modal particles is ad...
Source: Lingua - October 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Assessing components of multi-(lingual) competence in young learners
Publication date: Available online 18 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Barbara Hofer, Ulrike JessnerAbstractOver the past decades, the concept of multi-(lingual) competence1 has been the focus of significant academic interest. Ever since Cook introduced the notion of multi-competence in the 1990s, the concept has attracted a lot of attention and has been discussed extensively at the theoretical level. At the practical level, however, multi-competence has not been investigated much, if at all. In fact, there is a very distinct lack of empirical research, especially into what constitutes multi-(lingual) competence in you...
Source: Lingua - October 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: October 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 230Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - October 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“It has the ability to make the other person feel comfortable”: L1 Japanese speakers' folk descriptions of aizuchi
Publication date: Available online 6 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Todd James AllenAbstractAizuchi refers to particular verbal and non-verbal listening behaviours in Japanese. Listeners perform these behaviours during interaction while the speaker has the floor. These responses attend to the speaker's talk, by demonstrating understanding, continuation and other interactional functions. These responses include verbalisations such as un (‘yeah’), aa (‘right), ee (‘uh huh’) and non-verbal movements such as head nods. Previous researchers have claimed that L1 Japanese speakers have a heightened sense of awar...
Source: Lingua - October 12, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Anaphora resolution in L1 Italian in a Swedish-speaking environment before and after L1 re-immersion: A study on attrition
This study investigates whether L1 attrition effects on anaphora resolution decrease with L1 re-immersion. A group of 20 Italian-Swedish late bilinguals was tested once before and once after their summer vacation in Italy, and compared with a control group of 21 Italian monolinguals that was also tested once before and once after a similar time interval. Both groups assigned overt and null pronouns to a subject or an object antecedent in a self-paced comprehension task. The results of the study suggest that attrition affects null pronouns, an outcome inconsistent with previous findings wherein attrition effects were limite...
Source: Lingua - October 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A corpus-based study of evidentials in the Turkish Cypriot dialect
Publication date: Available online 7 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Elvan Eda Işık-Taş, Çiğdem Sağın-ŞimşekAbstractUsing a corpus-based language contact framework, this study explores how evidentiality is expressed in Standard Turkish spoken in Turkey (TT) and the Turkish Cypriot Dialect spoken in North Cyprus (CT). The corpus comprises oral interviews with 80 speakers in North Cyprus and Turkey. We compared the expressions of direct and indirect experience in the oral productions of speakers aged between 18 and 22 (18+ group) with the expressions of speakers who were 50 and older (50+ group). We used two co...
Source: Lingua - October 9, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
A prosodic account of wh-formation in Jordanian Arabic
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Ekab Al-Shawashreh, Marwan Jarrah, Moh’d Al-Omari, Mutasim Al-DeaibesAbstractThis paper shows that wh-formation in Jordanian Arabic (JA) is prosodically ruled. Wh-words should move either to the left or to the right periphery of the phonological phrase that contains the relevant wh-word. What appears as an in-situ instance of a wh-question in JA, as reported by several studies, is in fact a true instance of a moved wh-word but to the right periphery of the phonological phrase that contains the wh-word. Movement to either peripheral position is forc...
Source: Lingua - October 6, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Review of The grammatical realization of polarity contrast: Theoretical, empirical, and typological approaches, Dimroth, Sudhoff (Eds.) (2018)
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Marielle Butters (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - September 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
