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Grammatical gender in Zapotec/Spanish monolingual and bilingual speakers
IsoglossAs inanimate nouns are not classified according to grammatical gender in Zapotec, it is legitimate to wonder whether it is possible that the influence of Zapotec on Spanish plays a role in the quantity and in the grammatical and structural contexts ...
Gladys Cruz Mendoza +2 more
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On the cognitive basis of contact-induced sound change: Vowel merger reversal in Shanghainese [PDF]
, 2016 This study investigated the source and status of a recent sound change in Shanghainese (Wu, Sinitic) that has been attributed to language contact with Mandarin.
Chang, C. B., Yao, Y.
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Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 1293-1304, May 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
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Is the scope of phonological planning constrained by the syntactical role of the utterance constituents? [PDF]
, 2009 Five experiments looked the effect of repeated phonemes in the production of color adjective+noun phrases in English ("green gun"), or noun+color adjective phrases in Spanish and French.
Damian, Markus +3 more
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Children's verbalizations of motion events in German [PDF]
, 2010 Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and have begun to show that language properties may have an impact on how children construct and organize their representations. With respect to motion events, Talmy (
Anne-Katharina Ochsenbauer +4 more
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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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Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2008 This paper is a contribution to the recent rationalist, multidimensional, and multidirectional trend in explaining the notion of language transfer, now “crosslinguistic influence”, as a conscious problem solving process rather than as an unconscious and
Youcef BEGHOUL
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Trilingual conversations: a window into multicompetence [PDF]
, 2007 A recurrent theme in the literature on trilingual language use is the question of whether there is a specific “trilingual competence.” In this paper we consider this question in the light of codeswitching patterns in two dyadic trilingual conversations ...
Baetens Beardsmore, H. +12 more
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 67-102, March 2026.Abstract This study investigates how distributional cues are integrated into the mental representation of the as‐predicative construction by English native and nonnative speakers, drawing on associative learning theory. We examined speakers’ constructional retrieval when given a verbal cue (Experiment 1) and their verb retrieval when given a ...
Ivana Domazetoska, Helen Zhao
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Language and CognitionThe integration of multiple linguistic modules – syntax, semantics and pragmatics – poses a persistent challenge for adult second language (L2) learners, as posited by the interface hypothesis (IH).
Sun Hee Park, Hyunwoo Kim
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