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The include network: Advancing cross‐linguistic equity in brain health research

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Speech and language measures are increasingly recognized as sensitive, scalable, non‐invasive markers of diverse brain disorders. Yet, current research is overwhelmingly English‐centric, neglecting the world's vast linguistic diversity and undermining these markers’ global applicability.
Adolfo M. García   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches

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The approximately 500 Bantu languages spoken across vast areas of Central, Eastern and Southern Africa are united by the presence of a number of broad typological similarities, including, for example, complex noun class system and agglutinative verbal ...
Gibson, Hannah   +20 more
core   +5 more sources

Williams Syndrome and Agreement: The Case for Spanish Speakers

open access: yesLanguages
This paper examines morphosyntactic agreement in gender and number within the spontaneous spoken discourse of Spanish-speaking adults with Williams syndrome (WS), compared to that of typically developing (TD) speakers. Data were collected through natural
Antònia Llull Febrer   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal fluency in people with Parkinson's disease: Item‐based performance before and after deep brain stimulation surgery

open access: yesJournal of Neuropsychology, Volume 20, Issue 2, Page 305-324, June 2026.
Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

«Chi lece questo scrito mi deve compatire perche non sono una per sona indelicende»

open access: yesEducazione Linguistica Language Education, 2018
The semi-literate people texts offer many ideas for linguistic education and in an interdisciplinary perspective; they are real texts, sources for the literacy history and they reflect useful experiences for citizenship education.
Cantoni, Paola
doaj   +1 more source

Synchronic stratum-specific rates of application reflect diachronic change:
 morphosyntactic conditioning of variation in English /l/-darkening

open access: yesPapers in Historical Phonology, 2016
Phonological processes that exhibit morphosyntactic sensitivity can provide evidence of historical processes which have ascended through the grammar over time. English /l/-darkening shows such effects. Although syllable-based accounts state that light [l]
Danielle Turton
doaj   +1 more source

‘Gen Z Language? Y'all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 255-267, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
wiley   +1 more source

Probing Prediction‐Related Processes in Language Using an EEG Word Stem Completion Paradigm

open access: yesPsychophysiology, Volume 63, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Humans comprehend language rapidly, with active prediction of upcoming words as a key mechanism. Studies using sentences have documented facilitations in behavior and brain activity (N400) when people encounter predictable words, and brain responses (anterior positivity) specific to prediction violations.
Hui‐Sun Chiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflexive-reciprocal polysemy in South-Western Bantu : distribution, typology, and origins

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This chapter focuses on reflexive-reciprocal polysemy within South-Western Bantu and combines a comparative study of synchronic morphosyntactic variation with a reconstruction of its historical development.
Marten, Lutzeditor   +4 more
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