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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

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), Helen Zhao (she/her), Jonathon Lum (he/him)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Huang M, Li Z, Zheng Y, Yang C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 59-71, March 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Skills, but Not Motor Skills, Predict Narrative and Expressive Pragmatic Skills in Children With Typical Development and Neurodevelopmental Disorders. [PDF]

Child Dev
Florit-Pons J, Pronina M, Igualada A, Prieto P, Norbury C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nigerian English research: Developments and directions

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 182-198, March 2026.
Abstract This article describes the progress made by scholars over a period of more than five decades in the field of Nigerian English studies. It will thus serve as a useful tool for those researching in this field; and apparently there has been no such attempt to date to review the research landscape of Nigerian English in order to show its key ...
David Jowitt, Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding the digital: a corpus-based study of simplifications and other translation universals in translated texts. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Afzaal M, Huang B, El-Dakhs DAS.
europepmc   +1 more source

National identity and the ownership of English in Nigeria

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 111-124, March 2026.
Abstract It has been argued that, especially in non‐Inner Circles of English, whether or not speakers consider language to be a harbinger of national identity affects their positioning as owners of that language. A plethora of prior studies have also demonstrated that language is of central importance regarding the ways in which people enact their ...
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi, Robert M. Mckenzie
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Analyses of Early Verb Production in Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]

J Autism Dev Disord
LeGrand K, Parish-Morris J, Naigles LR.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 76-95, March 2026.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Figurative Archive: an open dataset and web-based application for the study of metaphor. [PDF]

Sci Data
Bressler M, Mangiaterra V, Canal P, Frau F, Luciani F, Scalingi B, Barattieri di San Pietro C, Battaglini C, Pompei C, Romeo F, Bischetti L, Bambini V.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source