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Noun and Verb (Re)learning: A Comparative Perspective on Acquisition and Post‐Stroke Aphasia
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT Nouns and verbs are fundamental building blocks of language, yet they exhibit important asymmetries. In language acquisition, nouns typically enter young children's lexicon earlier and are acquired more easily, while verbs are learned later and with greater difficulty.
Ran Li, Angela Xiaoxue He
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Diagnostic features of English-lexified creoles: first attestations from Virgin Islands English creole [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011 This paper presents the earliest attestations in Virgin Islands English Creole of the diagnostic features of English-lexified contact languages proposed by Baker and Huber (2001).
Andrei A. Avram
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Agribusiness, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 2415-2424, Autumn 2026.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Studies in Logic, Grammar and RhetoricOne of the claims of creole exceptionalism is that creole languages have lexicons of reduced conceptual and expressive complexity. Building on previous studies of the lexicon of Nigerian Pidgin/NP and the applications of the cognitive linguistic ...
Kosecki Krzysztof
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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?
British Educational Research Journal, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 3824-3844, October 2026.Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
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Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 799-809, October 2026.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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‘A simple outgrowth of the democracy’: Women's Suffrage, Democracy, and the Third Reform Act
Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 3, Page 407-430, October 2026.Abstract The 1884 Reform Act was a landmark in the history of British democracy, creating almost three million voters and bringing farm labourers, miners, and shipworkers cascading onto the register. Yet 1884 was also a moment of democratic exclusion.
Robert Saunders
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Indo-Aryan Influence in Mauritian Creole
This paper looks at possible Indo-Aryan influence on the grammar of Mauritian Creole. Although several Indo-Aryan languages have been in close contact with Mauritian Creole for almost two hundred years, they appear to have had only minimal impact on its ...
Syea, A.
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The creoleness of Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German): A typological perspective
, 2017 In this paper, we discuss to what extent the German-based contact language Unserdeutsch (Rabaul Creole German, cf. Volker 1982) matches the category ‘creole language’ from both a socio-historical and structural perspective.
Lindenfelser, Siegwalt Alexander +1 more
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Developmental stuttering with common and complex phenotypes
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 68, Issue 10, Page 1460-1475, October 2026.Abstract Aim To describe the phenotypic spectrum associated with stuttering. Method Individuals with current or resolved developmental stuttering self‐referred. Surveys assessed stuttering characteristics (onset, negative impact, family history) and health (early development, other conditions).
Sarah E. Horton +6 more
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