Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals
This study investigates the transnational experiences of young Taiwanese-background children living in Australia, who sojourn to their parents’ homeland during the school holidays to improve their linguistic and cultural skills, as reported by their mothers. Although this appears to be a frequent practice in the Taiwanese diaspora, showcasing the agency of this community, little research has systematically investigated this practice, and in particular its impact on the children and their families. Data for this study were obtained through online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with mothers who engage in thi...
Source: Lingua - March 4, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The domain of emphasis spread in Arabic: Evidence from Urban Jordanian Arabic
Publication date: Available online 23 February 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Aziz Jaber, Osama Omari, Rasheed Al-JarrahAbstractThis paper investigated the domain of emphasis spreading in Urban Jordanian Arabic. Emphasis spreading was examined in two types of words: polysyllabic monomorphemic and polymorphemic. F1 raising, F2 lowering, and F3 raising in the vowels preceding and following the emphatic sound were used as the acoustic correlates of emphasis spreading in the participants’ speech who were ten native speakers of Urban Jordanian Arabic. The findings showed that emphasis is a morphophonemic process in that the dom...
Source: Lingua - February 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Hands occupied: Chinese farmers use more non-manual pointing than herders
We examined pointing preferences by administering a referential communication task in two types of communities which share a national identity, geographic environment, ethnicity, cultural background, and language and yet vary in their degree of hand availability: farming and herding communities in southwestern China. Our findings show that farmers, who emphasize the use of manual labour in intensive subsistence farming, were more likely to use non-manual pointing in the task than herders, who demonstrate a higher degree of manual availability in the rearing of animals. This research has implications for how the availabilit...
Source: Lingua - February 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2019Source: Lingua, Volume 220Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 23, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language Conflict and Language Rights: Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on Human Conflict, William D. Davies, Stanley Dubinsky. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2018), 425 pp.
Publication date: Available online 13 February 2019Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Andrew Cowell (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 14, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
