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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

The Subword‐Character Multi‐Scale Transformer With Learnable Positional Encoding for Machine Translation

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2025.
The method achieves significant performance breakthroughs in machine translation through deep integration of linguistic features at different granularities. ABSTRACT The transformer model addresses the efficiency bottleneck caused by sequential computation in traditional recurrent neural networks (RNN) by leveraging the self‐attention mechanism to ...
Wenjing Yao, Wei Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
wiley   +1 more source

Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
wiley   +1 more source

Learning Unacceptability: Repeated Exposure to Acceptable Sentences Improves Adult Learners’ Recognition of Unacceptable Sentences

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 1, Page 77-116, March 2025.
Abstract Adults learning a new language tend to judge unconventional utterances more leniently than fluent speakers do; ratings on acceptable utterances, however, tend to align more closely with fluent speakers. This asymmetry raises a question as to whether unconventional utterances can be statistically preempted by conventional utterances for adult ...
Karina Tachihara, Adele E. Goldberg
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Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic: The Primacy of the Spoken Language

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.
Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
wiley   +1 more source

Is This (Becoming) a Theory of Second Language Acquisition?: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”

Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 2, Page 590-593, June 2025.
Jonas Granfeldt (he/him)
wiley   +1 more source

KLITIK PRONOMINA CERPEN DALAM MAJALAH BOBO: PENUNJANG LITERASI, STRUKTUR KALIMAT, DAN KESANTUNAN BERBAHASA INDONESIA PADA FASE B TINGKAT SEKOLAH DASAR

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This study aims to describe the use of pronominal clitics in Bobo Magazine's short story collection and see its potential in supporting the Indonesian language learning process in phase B of the elementary school level.
Azila Fitria Ramadhani, Dea Maulidya Putri, Ripaatil Mahmudah, Encep Kusumah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source