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Journal 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
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Correlates of linguistic rhythm in the speech signal [PDF]
, 1999 Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties, and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants capacity to discriminate languages.
Mehler, Jacques +2 more
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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Language 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
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The Accent of Masculine O-Stems in the Dialect of Komazini
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2013 Neo-Štokavian dialects preserve the inherited Proto-Slavic accent paradigms relatively well. The paper discusses the accentuation of the masculine o-stems in the Neo-Štokavian dialect of Komazini and describes the changes that occurred in the accent ...
Perina Vukša Nahod
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On the question of the syllabic system of versification: the poetic practice of Theophan Prokopovich
Слово.ру: балтийский акцентThe study is devoted to the analysis of the accentual architectonics of the isosyllabic works of Theophan Prokopovich. The primary objective of this analysis was to examine the hypothesis regarding the gradual emergence of the syllabo-tonic system within
Natalia V. Patroeva
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Language 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
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The Accentuation of the Podravian Dialect of Valpovo by B. Klaić
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2014 The article analyzes the accentual system of the Podravian dialect of Valpovo on the basis of Bratoljub Klaić’s description of the Bizovac dialect. The comparison of his description with that of other dialectologists leads to the conclusion that the ...
Tijmen Pronk
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Prosodic focus in Vietnamese [PDF]
, 2007 This paper reports on pilot work on the expression of Information Structure in Vietnamese and argues that Focus in Vietnamese is exclusively expressed prosodically: there are no specific focus markers, and the language uses phonology to express ...
Jannedy, Stefanie
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
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