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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her) +2 more
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An experimental investigation of wh-dependencies in four island types in Romanian
GlossaThis paper gauges the acceptability of wh-extraction from four island types in Romanian, an understudied language in this respect. Linguistic theories predict wh-dependencies to be unacceptable when the gap is located inside adjuncts, complex NPs ...
Gert-Jan Thomas Schoenmakers +1 more
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Repeated reading and Chinese oral‐reading fluency: Is prosodic sensitivity an indispensable link?
Journal 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
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &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
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Arguing against obligatory feature inheritance: Evidence from French transitive participle agreement [PDF]
, 2008 In this article, we accept the view that the relevant type of case/agreement features originate on phase heads, but argue against a strong view of the Percolation Hypothesis on which uninterpretable features obligatorily percolate down from a phase head ...
Radford, A, Vincent, M
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Renaissance 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
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فھم معاني المفردات والتراكیب اللغویة لدى تلامیذ المرحلة الابتدائیة
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 This study aims at exploring primary school pupils' understanding of the meaning of lexical items and language structures. The study sample consists of 40 second year primary school pupils.
أ.د. كامل محمود نجم م.م.یسرى مھدي حسون
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SCl enclisis in North Italian and Rhaeto-Romance varieties: merge and phases
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliIn 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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Remnant movement and smuggling in some Romance interrogative clauses
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
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Questions, content and the varieties of force [PDF]
In addition to the Frege point, Frege also argued for the force-content distinction from the fact that an affirmative answer to a yes-no question constitutes an assertion.
Schmitz, Michael
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