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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her)   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Displacement and quantification without representation

open access: yesMind &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
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing lexical proficiency in Russian as a second language using indices of lexical sophistication, diversity, and fluency

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Lexical proficiency in a second language (L2) has long been effectively assessed through the measurement of various lexical indices, or textual characteristics that act as observable indicators of such conceptual categories as lexical richness, diversity, sophistication, and fluency.
Olesya Kisselev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arabic punctuation dataset. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Yagi S, Elnagar A, Yaghi E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
wiley   +1 more source

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