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Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
wiley   +1 more source

Listening, Reading, or Both? Rethinking the Comprehension Benefits of Reading‐While‐Listening

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The rising popularity of audiobooks in language learning has highlighted the need to understand their potential benefits in enhancing comprehension and the mechanisms driving these effects. In this registered report, we explored the hypothesis that reading‐while‐listening can enhance lower‐level decoding skills, in turn freeing up cognitive ...
Bronson Hui, Aline Godfroid
wiley   +1 more source

Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

open access: yesLanguage 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
wiley   +1 more source

Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Implementation of a Fully Digital Workflow for the Fabrication of a Maxillary Complete Denture: A Case Report. [PDF]

open access: yesDent J (Basel)
Luna-Domínguez CR   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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