The evaluation of unfilled pauses: Limits of the prestige, solidarity and dynamism dimensions
This study compares the evaluation of unfilled pauses with speech without such pauses. The comparison is based on a set of perception surveys, in which participants listened to manipulated audio stimuli and rated them on a series of scales. Results provide evidence of pauses being evaluated on a prestige and a dynamism dimension. Guises with pauses are rated as more articulate, educated, etc., but they are equally rated as less assertive, confident, etc. than guises without pauses. Differential evaluation does not occur on the solidarity dimension. This study also confirms that the evaluation of pauses is multidimensional ...
Source: Lingua - July 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Micronarrative: Unit of analysis for quantitative studies of gesture in focus interviews
Publication date: Available online 15 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Anna Jelec, Małgorzata FabiszakAbstractLanguage is an inherently multimodal phenomenon, which constructs meaning through various modes: verbal, vocal and gestural. For certain types of gesture, the frequency matters just as much as the form. In the studies investigating gesture frequency, the traditional unit of analysis is gesture per word (de Ruiter et al., 2012), gesture per minute (Chu and Kita, 2016), or both (Hostetter et al., 2007). However, none of these measures alone work well with non-experimental data, such as recordings of focus interview...
Source: Lingua - July 17, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The syntax of focus in Caucasian Urum
Publication date: Available online 13 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Stefanie SchröterAbstractCaucasian Urum is an Anatolian variety of Turkish spoken in the Small Caucasus in Georgia, which shows crucial influences from its contact language Russian, especially in the syntax and the lexicon. One result of this language contact is that both OV and VO orders can occur in similar discourse contexts. This paper examines the effect of focus on word order preferences in Caucasian Urum in comparison to its substrate language Turkish and its contact language Russian. The results of the semi-naturalistic speech production study...
Source: Lingua - July 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Mediating linguistic diversity in the diaspora: An illustration from Haitian Canadians
This article aims at discussing mechanisms involved in the formation of diasporas and the phonetic dynamics underlying part of their diversity, as seen through the lens of a heterogeneous group of Canadians of Haitian descent living in Toronto. As an illustration of this, the data presented in this paper relates to some aspects of the English phonological repertoire used by 24 Haitian Canadians who were interviewed using the sociolinguistic interview technique. The phonological variables selected are coronal stop deletion and non postvocalic /r/. Auditory data results show realisations characteristic of mainstream Canadian...
Source: Lingua - July 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Meaning potentials and discourse markers: The case of focus management markers in Persian
This study takes a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to provide an overview of a class of discourse markers that primarily take part in the information structure of Persian and function as focus management markers. It is shown that the original lexical forms of the discourse markers digé, hâlâ, and tâzé share a temporal semantic feature which has seemingly resulted in shared discourse functions. As a discourse marker, digé predominantly appears in multi-nuclear discourse where paratactic relations exist. Digé functions cataphorically to point forward to an upcoming discourse unit; whereas, tâzé operates wit...
Source: Lingua - July 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Socio-psychological salience and categorisation accuracy of speaker place of origin
Publication date: Available online 12 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Robert M. McKenzie, Mimi Huang, Theng Theng Ong, Navaporn SnodinAbstractThere exists a dearth of research investigating how listeners use their knowledge of variation in their L2 to categorise speaker provenance from stimulus speech. The present study, employing a free classification measure, examined 191 Thai university students' categorisations of the geographical origin of nine speakers of English. Analysis demonstrated participants were generally able to distinguish between native and non-native English speech more broadly, and this distinction was...
Source: Lingua - July 13, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Eye tracking reveals subtle spoken sentence comprehension problems in children with dyslexia
In conclusion, the eye tracking data uncovered more than the behavioral measures alone, and children with dyslexia showed subtle sentence comprehension difficulties compared to TD peers. (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - July 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The Spanish future tense and cognitive perspective: Tense, modality, evidentiality and the reflection of the grounding process
Publication date: Available online 9 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Dana KratochvílováAbstractThe paper examines all uses of the Spanish future tense (the HABLARÉ paradigm) from a cognitive perspective and analyses in detail the level of subjectivity displayed and the relationship to the ground. It is claimed that these uses share a common feature: the echo of the ground (the speaker or the communication situation). The modal, evidential and temporal elements of the ground are presented in a new light, underlining their inherent interconnection. It is proposed that a unified account for all uses of what is traditiona...
Source: Lingua - July 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The compound-phrase divide and the lexicon: Insights from non-lexicalized adjective-noun combinations in German
Publication date: Available online 10 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Marcel SchlechtwegAbstractCompounds and phrases have been extensively contrasted on formal and functional grounds in the literature. Much less is known, however, about the cognitive differences between the two. The present article uses this observation as a point of departure and investigates whether non-lexicalized German adjective-noun compounds and phrases differ in how well they are memorized. Crucially, the contribution goes beyond previous research on this issue by (a) concentrating on the auditory presentation of compounds and phrases within a s...
Source: Lingua - July 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Focus constructions, verb types and the SV/VS order in Italian: An acquisitional study from a syntax–prosody perspective
Publication date: Available online 5 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Mara Frascarelli, Tania StortiniAbstractThis paper investigates the realization of subjects in Broad and Narrow Focus constructions, from both an acquisitional and a theoretical perspective. Specifically, NF structures include Information (IF) and Corrective (CF) subjects and the study concerns Italian children (4–9 y.o.). Data are collected through an original experiment, based on spontaneous answers to (recorded) questions associated to scene settings. It is shown that the SV strategy is the most frequently used, independent of either Focus or verb ...
Source: Lingua - July 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Struggling between national pride and personal empowerment: The language ideologies held by Chinese university students towards China English
Publication date: Available online 1 July 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Zimeng PanAbstractThe English used by Mainland Chinese people (henceforth ‘China English’) is inevitably influenced by L1 Chinese. This paper examines the attitudes held by Chinese university students towards China English, and explores the language ideologies leading for such attitudes. Following a discourse analysis of 30 semi-structured interviews, this paper finds that most participants held ambivalent attitudes towards China English. On the one hand, they considered China English an acceptable target for use by the Chinese population, and expre...
Source: Lingua - July 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The non-native speaker teacher as proficient multilingual: A critical review of research from 2009–2018
This study represents a critical review of empirical studies (n = 84) from 2009–2018 that reflect this change. The review indicates that a growing number of studies have started to document NNSTs’ unique affordances and multilingual practices in the classroom globally, that NNSTs can develop a reactive multilingual identity in response to native-speakerism, and that learners, when engaged by researchers, do recognize the multilingual affordances of NNSTs. The study's findings should contribute to the growing body of research on multilingual teacher identity, affordances, and practices, especially as this conc...
Source: Lingua - June 29, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Source: Lingua - June 27, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
In quest of a new identity? Language variation in Sabah
Publication date: Available online 24 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Seong Lin Ding, Chong-chieh Wu, Kim Leng GohAbstractWhile work on lesser-studied languages has been increasing, it is fair to say that variationist sociolinguistics as a whole has not energetically engaged with under-represented languages, especially ‘small’ languages in non-Western contexts (Stanford, 2016). By drawing attention to the variations in the Hakka language in Malaysia, this study aims to use language variation as an analytical lens through which the changes in the linguistic dimensions can be viewed from a social perspective and interp...
Source: Lingua - June 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Voluntary motion events in Uyghur: A typological perspective
Publication date: Available online 20 June 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Alimujiang Tusun, Henriëtte HendriksAbstractPrevious decades have seen many studies on the expression of motion in language. Most are based on Talmy's (1985) motion event typology. While providing robust support for the typology, variations within and across typological groups have also been reported, leading to proposals to either expand the typology (Slobin, 2004, Ameka and Essegbey, 2013) or to understand it as a set of strategies that languages avail themselves of (Beavers et al., 2010; Croft et al., 2010). To further contribute to this line of re...
Source: Lingua - June 21, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
