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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Maternal Child-Directed Speech Toward Children With Infantile Spasm or West Syndrome. [PDF]
Int J Lang Commun DisordABSTRACT Background Maternal child‐directed speech (MCDS) plays a critical role in early language and communicative development, yet little is known about how it adapts to neurodevelopmental conditions such as Infantile Spasms/West Syndrome (WS), particularly when co‐occurring with intellectual disability (WID) or autism spectrum disorder (WASD).
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body of work by exploring the digital recontextualisation of a subset of AAVE features as ‘TikTok/internet language’.
Christian Ilbury, Rianna Walcott
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Pragmatic functions, semantic classes, and lexical categories
Linguistics, 2010 Smith offers a critique of the theory of parts of speech in Croft (1991, 2001) inter alia. Smith tries to make a functionally-based universal-typological theory of parts of speech provide an answer to the problem of defining word classes and giving those classes the same names across languages ("noun"; "adjective"); this is not possible and not what I ...
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone +3 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
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Pragmatic Meanings Comprehension in Non-Native Argentinian Spanish Speakers
Quintú Quimün, 2020 The objective of this research is to make a comprehensive description of the understanding of pragmatic meanings by speakers of Spanish as a second and foreign language.
Agustín Arispe +4 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht +1 more
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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis
SAGE OpenAn increasing number of studies in pragmatics, second language acquisition, and related fields have opted to use sitcom conversations as a substitute for natural conversations in their analyses.
Min Li, Yan Xiao
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How Do They Feel? Processing Others’ Emotions in Second Language Discourse
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Emotion that is implied rather than literally expressed requires the processing of literal and pragmatic information. Processing multiple information types is an easy, fast process in the first language (L1) but can be costlier in a second language (L2), especially when emotional content is involved.
Andrea González‐García Aldariz +2 more
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