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Fluency in dialogue: Turn‐taking behavior shapes perceived fluency in native and nonnative speech
, 2020 Fluency is an important part of research on second language learning, but most research on language proficiency typically has not included oral fluency as part of interaction, even though natural communication usually occurs in conversations. The present
Bosker, H., De Jong, N., Van Os, M.
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Ameliorative projects, psychological essentialism, and the power of nouns
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Ameliorative projects design and propagate new linguistic content for some expressions we use for political or social justice purposes. These projects are often driven by an anti‐essentialist agenda: they aim to debunk the idea that social categories such as “woman”, “man”, or “race” are constituted by natural essences.
Steffen Koch
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Some psycholinguistic constraints on the construction and interpretation of definite descriptions [PDF]
, 1978 Andrew Ortony
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Rhythm and synchrony in animal movement and communication
, 2018 Animal communication and motoric behavior develop over time. Often, this temporal dimension has communicative relevance and is organized according to structural patterns.
Ravignani, A.
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Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching
Mind &Language, EarlyView.The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
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Self-selection of a university course in psycholinguistics [PDF]
, 2014 The present article aimed at identifying the university students’ (further referred to as “participants”) self-selection of an optional course in psycholinguistics.
Kapranov, Oleksandr
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Displacement and quantification without representation
Mind &Language, EarlyView.Perry and Recanati have argued that thought and speech can concern entities that they do not represent. This is possible because speakers and thinkers are pragmatically situated within their environs. I argue that thought and speech can go much farther than that.
Mihnea Capraru
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Turn-taking in human communicative interaction
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Judith eHoller +3 more
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The linguistics of gender [PDF]
, 1996 This chapter explores grammatical gender as a linguistic phenomenon. First, I define gender in terms of agreement, and look at the parts of speech that can take gender agreement.
Van Berkum, J.
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