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Cross-linguistic variation in metonymies for PERSON
Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 2015This paper investigates metonymies for person in Chinese and English in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics with an emphasis on cross-linguistic variation. Our central goal is to highlight the important role of cultural elements on the use of metonymy. Three main types of cross-linguistic variation were found at different degrees of granularities of
Weiwei Zhang +2 more
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Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Processing of Aspect
2014The present study investigates the cross-linguistic processing of aspect in English and German. Three self-paced reading experiments provide evidence that coercion of a (simple) past accomplishment into an activity reading causes processing difficulty in English (Experiment 1), but not in German (Experiments 2 and 3). We attribute this cross-linguistic
Bott, Oliver +4 more
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Cross-linguistic variation in children’s multimodal utterances
2018AbstractOur ability to use language is multimodal and requires tight coordination between what is expressed in speech and in gesture, such as pointing or iconic gestures that convey semantic, syntactic and pragmatic information related to speakers’ messages.
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Measure words, plurality, and cross-linguistic variation
Linguistic Variation, 2015In the context of Borer’s (2005) theory of nominal classification, the aim of this paper is to explain why measure words in some languages (English, French, Hebrew) necessarily take an -s(two bottles of milkversus*two bottle of milk)while in other languages (Azeri, Persian, Ojibwe) measure words can surface without plural marking (the equivalent oftwo ...
Eric Mathieu, Gita Zareikar
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 variation
2022Abstract This chapter addresses stylistic and obligatory variation in third language (L3) argument realization patterns. It focuses on the effects of formal second language (L2) learning experience, typological proximity, and five linguistic factors (discourse type ...
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Cross-linguistic Register Variation
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine studies comparing English to five other languages in a wide ...openaire +1 more source
Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Layered Structure of PP
2020This chapter provides a novel observation concerning cross-linguistic variation regarding NP-ellipsis (henceforth NPE) inside articulated PPs and considers its theoretical implications. It first shows that although NPE is equally available in nominals in English, Chinese, and Japanese, the parallel pattern breaks down when NPE takes place within PPs ...
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Modeling the cross-linguistic variations of tonal systems
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016This study aims to simulate the cross-linguistic variations of tonal systems with low dimensional models. Individual syllables of Mandarin, Yoruba, southern Yi, and Hmong were retrieved from existing speech corpora. Voice quality measures as well as f0 were extracted for all data.
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