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When a New Pronoun Crosses the Border: The Spread of A Gente on the Brazilian-Uruguayan Frontier
LanguagesThis study shows that the incorporation of the first-person plural pronoun a gente has not only reached the southernmost tip of the Brazilian territory, but has crossed the border and entered Uruguayan Portuguese, or varieties of Portuguese spoken in ...
Cíntia Pacheco +2 more
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Subject expression in a Southeastern U.S. Mexican community
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2019 Through an analysis of immigrant Spanish in Georgia, potential contact-induced language change is investigated through the lens of subject pronoun expression.
Philip Limerick
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Syntactic awareness as a mediator of reading–writing relations in young Chinese L2 learners
Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.Abstract This longitudinal study examined the mediating role of syntactic awareness in reading–writing relations among young learners of Chinese as a second language (L2). A total of 177 students from non‐Chinese‐speaking backgrounds in Hong Kong were assessed annually from Grades 4 to 6 on word‐level literacy (character reading, spelling), sentence ...
Yu Ka Wong, Dongbo Zhang
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Glossa, 2019 In the literature on Dutch morphosyntactic microvariation, it is sometimes assumed that a subpart of Dutch dialects lack certain morphemes, because they have no direct phonetic exponent. More careful analyses, however, suggest that these dialects display
Edoardo Cavirani, Marc van Oostendorp
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Chinese University Students’ Motivation to Learn Greek: A Transnational Postdigital Exploration
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on the motivation of learners of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) has grown steadily in recent years; however, most studies focus on classroom‐based activities and seldom consider how transnational experiences or digital practices contribute to motivational development.
Zhen Li, Aretousa Giannakou, Yuji Du
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A concreteness effect in morphosyntactic variation: Evidence from the variation in the choice of clausal complements in Serbian [PDF]
PsihologijaThis paper presents findings on the concreteness effect observed in the selection of clausal complements in Serbian. While concreteness effects have predominantly been explored in the realm of word processing, this study contributes to a limited body of ...
Arsenijević Boban +2 more
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L2 Chinese Grammatical Acquisition and Processing: A Substantive and Methodological Review
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 92 empirical studies on Chinese as a second language (CSL) in grammatical processing and development, synthesizing their substantive foci and methodological characteristics. The results reveal consistent scholarly attention to cross‐linguistic topics, with less focus on features that are distinctively
Shaohua Fang, Yi Xu, Jiani He, Jia Wang
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Tools for dialect syntax: the case of CORDIAL-SIN (an annotated corpus of Portuguese dialects)
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2010 This paper addresses methodological issues of concern to the study of morphosyntactic variation. While the empirical basis of dialect syntax is still a matter of elaboration, the focus will be here on the role of dialect corpora as tools for the study of
Ernestina Carrilho
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Individual Differences and Task Complexity in Second Language Writing: A Methodological Review
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a methodological review of empirical studies on second language (L2) writing and task complexity that have investigated the role of learner individual differences (IDs) in L2 writing processes and outcomes. Thirty journal articles published between 2005 and 2025 were coded for key theoretical, methodological (including ID
Janire Zalbidea, Bernard I. Issa
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Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
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