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From Task Motivation to L2 Learning: Understanding Links through Learners' Task Engagement

TESOL Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue S2, Page S24-S59, December 2025.
Abstract This study investigated whether learners' task motivation predicts their task engagement, and whether their task engagement is associated with subsequent L2 learning. Task motivation was operationalized through situated expectancy‐value theory (SEVT; Eccles & Wigfield, 2020), a model of the proximal (i.e., task‐specific) social‐cognitive ...
Phil Hiver, Phung Dao
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Vowelless word forms in Tarifit are produced with longer voiceless aspiration intervals [PDF]

JASA Express Letters
This paper examines voiceless aspiration duration in Tarifit, a Moroccan Amazigh language that allows vowelless productions of some words. Thirty-seven speakers produced words with a /CCəC/ structure containing a voiceless stop in the underlyingly pre ...
Mohamed Afkir, Georgia Zellou
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A Deep Generative Model of Vowel Formant Typology

, 2018
What makes some types of languages more probable than others? For instance, we know that almost all spoken languages contain the vowel phoneme /i/; why should that be?
Cotterell, Ryan, Eisner, Jason
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]

, 2002
This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew, Hajek, John, Stevens, Mary   +2 more
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A sketch of a typology of phonological changes at the word level

Linguistica Brunensia, 2015
The paper proposes a typology of phonological modifications of words in juxtaposition. The changes the phonological form of a word can undergo are sorted 1) according to their nature, 2) according to their direction, and 3) according to their complexity.
Aleš Bičan, Lenka Bičanová
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Long-distance consonant agreement and subsequentiality

Glossa, 2017
Johnson (1972) and Kaplan & Kay (1994) showed that phonological processes belong to the computational class of regular relations. This paper provides a computational analysis of long-distance consonant agreement and shows that it belongs to a more ...
Huan Luo
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On the avoidance of voiced sibilant affricates [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper it is argued that several typologically unrelated languages share the tendency to avoid voiced sibilant affricates. This tendency is explained by appealing to the phonetic properties of the sounds, and in particular to their aerodynamic ...
Zygis, Marzena
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Phonological Relations Between Palatalizers and the Phonemic System: A Case Study on Czech

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This paper examines palatalization in Czech, focusing on its behaviour in the domain of noun-deriving suffixes. It argues that Czech palatalization is not an assimilatory process, but a repair mechanism triggered by structurally and lexically deficient ...
Anna Poĺomská
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The Integration of Norse‐Derived Terms in English: Effects of Formal Similarity1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 556-591, November 2025.
Abstract Language change arising from language contact is a complex phenomenon. Peter Matthews encouraged researchers to consider it as firmly grounded in the behaviour of individual speakers. We apply this perspective to investigate the integration of Norse‐derived terms into medieval English, testing for the effect of their phonetic similarity to ...
Sara M. Pons‐Sanz, Seán G. Roberts
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