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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 671-703, June 2026.Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 264-292, June 2026.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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How About Ellipsis?: Young Children's Subject Bias in Interpreting Ambiguous “How About” Questions
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1559, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Ellipsis refers to the omission of words or phrases, requiring listeners to fill in the missing elements from earlier in the conversation. Ambiguity in elliptical questions, such as “How about X,” has received little attention in research on children's testimony.
Breanne E. Wylie +3 more
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The Philosophy of Language Models
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3, May/June 2026.ABSTRACT The success of large language models (LLMs) across many domains of AI research has generated intense debate. Some attribute their impressive performance on complex tasks to human‐like linguistic and cognitive capacities, whereas others ascribe it to shallow pattern matching.
Raphaël Millière, Cameron Buckner
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“The Difference” of Objects “Is Spreading”: A Non‐Anthropocentric Reading of Tender Buttons
Literature Compass, Volume 23, Issue 2, April/June 2026.ABSTRACT This article discusses the nonreferentiality of both language and the object in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons through an analysis of “Book.,” a section of the chapter “Objects.” While the inaccessibility of Tender Buttons is well known due to Stein's linguistic experimentalism, the objects presented as section titles also challenge ...
Joon Ho Hwang
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Infant and Child Development, Volume 35, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Narratives are part of children's everyday language interactions and an important precursor to broader competences such as literacy. This longitudinal study explores the development of spoken narrative skills in a large group of typically hearing and deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children.
Mario Figueroa, Ros Herman, Gary Morgan
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 53-90, March 2026.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 168-199, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
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