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Repeated reading and Chinese oral‐reading fluency: Is prosodic sensitivity an indispensable link?

open access: yesJournal of Research in Reading, Volume 49, Issue 1, February 2026.
Abstract Background This quasi‐experimental study tested whether prosodic sensitivity serves as a mediator through which an 8‐week repeated reading intervention improves Chinese oral reading fluency. Methods Seventy‐nine typically developing Chinese Grades 4–6 students, including 39 in the experimental group and 40 in the control group, were recruited ...
Li‐Chih Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conjunctional Syntagms pa da, a da, e da, etc. in Consecutive Semantic Clauses

open access: yesRasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2005
Two declarative clauses in cause-consequence relationship are joined by conjunctional syntagms pa/i/te da and pa/i/te kako which introduce a consecutive clause and are composed of the consecutive coordinator pa/i/te and the subordinator da/kako.
Luka Vukojević
doaj  

SCl enclisis in North Italian and Rhaeto-Romance varieties: merge and phases

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali
In many Romance varieties the inverted order between subject clitic and verb characterizes interrogation contexts and, in Rhaeto-Romance languages, V2 contexts.
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo M. Savoia
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Using the Variationist Comparative Method to Examine the Role of Language Contact in Synthetic and Periphrastic Verbs in Spanish

open access: yes, 2016
Language contact and linguistic change are thought to go hand in hand (e.g. Silva-Corvalán 1994), however there are methodological obstacles, such as collecting data at different points in time or the availability of monolingual data for comparison, that
Dumont, Jenny, Vegara Wilson, Damián
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.
When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
wiley   +1 more source

K’ui tii ‘Don’t speak!’ – Morphology and syntax of commands in Ts’ixa (Kalahari Khoe) and beyond

open access: yesLinguistique et Langues Africaines
The Khoe-Kwadi language family makes up part of the typological unit “Southern African Khoisan” and is currently distributed across Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Anne-Maria Fehn
doaj   +1 more source

Tonal properties in a non-tonal language: The case of Indonesian. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Udayana IN   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Got alt hui. Some Considerations on the German Dialogue Between Massimiliano Sforza and Maximilian I in the Liber Iesus (Milan, Archivio Storico Civico e Biblioteca Trivulziana, Cod. Triv. 2163)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 6-24, February 2026.
Abstract The so‐called Liber Iesus, a Latin prayer book commissioned for the young Massimiliano Sforza by his father Ludovico il Moro in the 1490s, features a splendid miniature depicting a meeting between the child count and Emperor Maximilian I. It is accompanied by a brief dialogue in German with an interlinear version in Italian on the topic of the
Michael Berger
wiley   +1 more source

Remnant movement and smuggling in some Romance interrogative clauses

open access: yes
Abstract This chapter argues that remnant movement to the HLP and to the LLP coexist in French and the NIDs. To show this it first concentrates on the ill-understood syntax of quoi (what), pourquoi (why), and que (what) in French. It also shows that the syntax of French questions crucially takes into account the fact that most qu ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
openaire   +2 more sources

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