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Doing Psycholinguistics in Applied Linguistics: Foundations, Methods, and Future Directions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Psycholinguistics seeks to explain how language is represented, processed, and acquired in the mind. In applied linguistics, this endeavor extends to understanding how diverse bilingual populations—including second language learners, heritage speakers, and individuals experiencing language attrition—acquire and use language across contexts ...
Aline Godfroid
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Theoretical-experimental remarks on the underlying structure of sluicing with preposition deletion
Revista Linguística, 2019 Results of two acceptability judgment tasks on preposition deletion (P-deletion) in Brazilian Portuguese are presented. The first experiment contrasts P-deletion under sluicing (Merchant (2001) with P-deletion under interrogatives double-filled CPs.
Cilene Rodrigues, Ludmila Milhorance
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Where has the new information gone? : the chinese case [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I would like to show that the principles which have been proposed so far to account for the relationship between the informational level and the syntactic level in a Chinese utterance are unable to predict some interesting and regular facts
Paris, Marie-Claude
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The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]
, 2009 A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston +8 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Diachronic Development in Isolation: The Loss of V2 Phenomena in Cimbrian [PDF]
, 2007 This paper deals with the syntactic development of Cimbrian, a German dialect, which was spoken for centuries in some enclaves in northern Italy. In particular, we argue that the ‘dismantlement’ of the V2 phenomenon is connected with a change concerning ...
Bidese, Ermenegildo +1 more
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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