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Bidirectional Interactions Between Language and Music in a Dual Task Experiment Without Syntactic Violations

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 9, September 2026.
Abstract To investigate potentially shared syntactic mechanisms between language and music, we conducted a novel adaptation of the dual task paradigm without syntactic violations to assess the degree of bidirectional interaction between the two domains.
Aura A. L. Cruz Heredia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effective When Distinctive: The Role of Phonetic Similarity in Nested Dependency Learning Across Preschool Years

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 1027-1061, September 2026.
Abstract Parallel tracking of distant relations between speech elements, so‐called nonadjacent dependencies (NADs), is crucial in language development but computationally demanding and acquired only in late preschool years. As processing of single NADs is facilitated when dependent elements are perceptually similar, we investigated how phonetic ...
Dimitra‐Maria Kandia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neo‐Reidian Naïve Realism

open access: yesRatio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 135-142, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Most naïve realists do not distinguish between perception and consciousness; to say that I perceive the table is akin to saying that I am conscious of the table. Doing so leads many to maintain that if the character of experience is constituted by anything other than the table, I do not perceive it, and so naïve realism fails.
R. P. Koutedakis
wiley   +1 more source

Semantically negative adverbial clause-linkage: ‘let alone’ constructions, expletive negation, and theoretical implications

open access: yesLinguistic Typology
One construction that has traditionally been neglected in the typological study of clause-linkage is that built on ‘let alone’ (e.g., the baby can’t even talk, let alone walk).
Olguín Martínez Jesús
doaj   +1 more source

On the Syntax of Instrumental Clauses: The Case of Indem-Clauses in German

open access: yesLanguages
In this article, I examine the external and internal syntax of instrumental indem-clauses in German. As a subordidating conjunction, indem takes a finite TP as its complement and triggers verb final position.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski
doaj   +1 more source

Finiteness in Hinuq

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2011
Hinuq (Nakh-Daghestanian language family, Caucasus, Russia) has a rich system of verbal forms. In independent/main clauses there are seven synthetic TAM forms, 20 periphrastic TAM forms, and two heterogeneous TAM forms that cannot be attributed clearly ...
Diana Forker
doaj   +1 more source

Modal verbs in South Asian online Englishes: must, (have) got to, have to and need to

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 574-594, September 2026.
Abstract This research article presents an analysis of four (semi‐)modals of necessity/obligation (must, (have) got to, have to and need to) in four CMC registers (comments, tweets, web forums and websites) originating from four South Asian countries (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) along with the United Kingdom and United States.
Muhammad Shakir
wiley   +1 more source

The double modal construction in English world wide

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 485-503, September 2026.
Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
wiley   +1 more source

The Internal Structure of Causal Subordinators and the Attachment Site of Causal Clauses in the History of Italian

open access: yesLanguages
This paper investigates the syntax and diachrony of Italian causal clauses introduced by perché, siccome, and poiché. Although often treated as near-synonyms in Contemporary Italian, these subordinators differ systematically in their syntactic ...
Jacopo Garzonio, Emanuela Sanfelici
doaj   +1 more source

Differences and similarities between European and Brazilian Portuguese in the use of the «gerúndio»

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2004
This paper provides a partial description of the main differences between European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) concerning the use of the «gerúndio».
Evani Viotti, Telmo Móia
doaj   +2 more sources

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