Directionality of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin: A corpus-based study
Publication date: Available online 28 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Qingqing Zhao, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen AhrensAbstractThis paper examines the mapping directionality tendencies of linguistic synesthesia in Mandarin using a corpus-based approach. Based on this set of less-studied data, we find that Mandarin synesthesia does not share the same directionality tendencies with linguistic synesthesia in Indo-European languages, which challenges the assumed cross-linguistic universality of these transfer patterns. Based on the corpus data, we demonstrate that there are three types of directional tendencies for Mandarin...
Source: Lingua - September 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Diaspora varieties of Korean: Morpho-syntactic contrasts in Koryo Mar and Vernacular Yanbian Korean☆
Publication date: Available online 27 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Simon Barnes-Sadler, Jaehoon YeonAbstractThis paper identifies and examines numerous points of morpho-syntactic contrast in two transplanted varieties of Korean—Central Asian Koryo Mar (KM) and Chinese Vernacular Yanbian Korean (VYK). This allows us to evaluate implicit claims made about the synchronic forms of these dialects, for example those concerning their relationship to peninsula varieties of Korean, and also provides insights into the factors underlying the development of languages in transplanted contexts. The main findings of this pape...
Source: Lingua - September 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Cumulative usage effects on lexeme-final /s/: probability of being affixed
This study explores cumulative usage effects caused by contexts within a word, by examining the duration of lexeme-final /s/ in relation to the probability of the lexeme being affixed in English. It is demonstrated that the duration of lexeme-final /s/ is shorter when they are followed by bound morphemes, and this local usage effect becomes offline, that is, the duration of lexeme-final /s/ is shorter in a lexeme with higher probability of being followed by bound morphemes. This result is amenable to the explanation of Exemplar Theory, and this paper argues that exemplars encoding affixed and unaffixed forms are mentally r...
Source: Lingua - September 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Quantitative linguistics approach to interlanguage development: a study based on the Guangwai-Lancaster Chinese Learner Corpus
This study offers a new approach to the study of interlanguage by modeling its dynamic organization system in real language use. It has pedagogical implications for the use of language tasks and language styles with different L2 learner proficiency levels. (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - September 11, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Evaluating objective and subjective frequency measures in L2 lexical processing
Publication date: Available online 10 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Xiaocong Chen, Yanping DongAbstractThe superiority of the subjective frequency measure over objective corpus frequency measures in L1 lexical research has long been debated, but a systermatic investigation into this issue in the L2 context is still lacking. To bridge the gap, the present study explored the relations between six typical English corpus frequency norms and subjective frequency ratings collected from L2 English learners, and assessed their predictive power on L2 English lexical-decision data. The results revealed that despite strong c...
Source: Lingua - September 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Is a general non-ethnocentric theory of human communication possible? An integrationist approach
Publication date: Available online 8 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Adrian PabléAbstractThe present paper takes a supportive stance towards humanism, anthropocentrism and universalism. It does so through the lens of a theoretical approach known as integrationism (or integrational linguistics), as outlined in the work of Oxford linguist Roy Harris (Harris, 1996). Given the rise in research critiquing the ethnocentric nature of communication and linguistic theory, this paper examines the validity of the cultural bias argument as recently presented in posthumanist applied linguistics (Pennycook, 2018), anti-humanist ...
Source: Lingua - September 8, 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): James Allen ToddAbstractAizuchi 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 aw...
Source: Lingua - September 7, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The imperfective paradox in a second language: A dynamic completion-entailment test
Publication date: Available online 4 September 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Stefano RastelliAbstractThe imperfective paradox (IP) refers to the fact that the imperfective-progressive yields completion entailment with atelic predicates (e.g., Livia was pushing the chair → Livia pushed the chair = true) but not with telic predicates (Livia was peeling the tangerine → Livia peeled the tangerine = not necessarily true). The paper questions whether L2 learners too – like adult native speakers – are sensitive to the IP. Ninety-nine adult L2 Italian learners with different L1s and proficiency levels un...
Source: Lingua - September 4, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: October 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 229Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - August 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Lingua - August 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The experiential aspect of Mandarin Chinese (-guo): Semantics and pragmatics
Discussion (Roberts, 1996). (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - August 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language shift from Forro to Portuguese: Language ideologies and the symbolic power of Portuguese on São Tomé Island
This article investigates causes of the language shift from Forro to Portuguese around the capital of São Tomé and Príncipe from a language ideology and political economy perspective. It examines the ideological and indexical processes supporting the differentiating social categories and how they are linked to language choice. It shows that accessing ideologies held by Forros is key to understanding how they have historically set themselves apart from the other racial groups on the island by choosing Portuguese as their first language. This research is based on observations in the public and private spheres in São Tom...
Source: Lingua - July 31, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: August 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 227Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - July 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Lingua - July 24, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The level of explicitation of reference in the translation of medical texts from English into Persian: A case study on basic histology
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Abbas Ali Ahangar, Seyyedeh Nazanin RahnemoonAbstractThe level of explicitness of cohesive devices may change through the process of translation; therefore, the present study is an attempt to investigate how English reference ties as cohesive devices are translated into Persian in the published and Google translation versions in medical texts, bearing in mind the degree of changes in the level of explicitness (Blum-Kulka's hypothesis (1986/2000)) in the process of translation. To this end, Halliday and Hasan's (1976) model is employed as the theoretica...
Source: Lingua - July 19, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
