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Introduction to the special issue on Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 2-6, March 2026.Abstract This article introduces this special issue of World Englishes devoted to Nigerian English. It outlines the significance of this special issue (and of Nigerian English) within global Englishes scholarship. It situates Nigerian English as one of the most demographically, functionally and intellectually important postcolonial varieties of English,
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
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Two Types of Verb Reduplications in Mandarin Chinese
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2020 This paper analyzes verb reduplication in Mandarin Chinese under a lexicalist framework. By adopting the Lexicalist Hypothesis proposed by Chomsky (1970), a distinction has been made between syntactic and morphological verb reduplications by means of ...
Xie Zhu
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Hub genes and diagnostic model associated with mitochondrial function in Alzheimer's disease
Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 2, Page 237-248, February 2026.Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, and mitochondrial dysfunction has been confirmed in AD patients and mouse models. However, the pathogenic genes associated with AD and early diagnostic methods based on mitochondrial function remain to be explored.
Xuchao Zhu, Ling Zhang, Chuan Qin
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1556, Issue 1, February 2026.From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework for multimodal language development. ABSTRACT Rhythm organizes many human motor activities from before birth and continues to shape development throughout ...
Susanne Fuchs +3 more
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Morphological reduplication in Jordanian Arabic: form and function
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis study investigates the phenomenon of morphological reduplication in Jordanian Arabic in light of morphological doubling theory, offering an extensive examination of this type of reduplication in terms of form and function.
Khaled H. Abu-Abbas, Amal R. Alomari
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African Lambdas II: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Verbal and Clausal Domain
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The formal semantic analysis of African languages is still a young subfield within theoretical linguistics. Starting with general overviews of the quantifier systems of individual African languages around two decades ago, there now exists a substantial body of fieldwork‐based and autochthonous formal semantic research conducted by both African
Malte Zimmermann
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Reduplication in Macao Creole Portuguese and its origins
Études Créoles, 2016 L’article discute d’abord les types de reduplication (partielle et totale) attestés dans le créole portugais de Macao, les catégories lexicales qui servent de bases pour la reduplication ainsi que les significations exprimées par la reduplication ...
Andrei A. Avram
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Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social ScienceThis paper presents the perspective on how reduplication influences tone realisation in the Nambya language. Despite reduplication being common in Bantu, tone-reduplication interaction in Nambya remains understudied.
Vincent Nyoni +1 more
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Patterns of phonosemantic reduplication in Kartvelian (South Caucasian) languages
LingBaW, 2018 In terms of phonosemantic doubling, root reduplication (in combination with affixation) is the most productive technique in Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Megrelian, Laz, Svan).
Zaal Kikvidze +2 more
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REDUPLICATION OF HEART SOUNDS. [PDF]
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1906 Reduplication means doubling; that is, the sounds still strike the ear, not as a single tone, but as a double tone. Both the first and the second sounds may be reduplicated. The appearance of extra beats is a totally distinct phenomenon. This subject has received scanty attention. Potain, in a study of 500 hearts, makes the first mention in literature.
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