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Investigating the Relationship Between Early Speech Milestones and Oral–Motor Development in Infants

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, Volume 115, Issue 6, Page 1237-1244, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim This study aimed to determine whether infants' oromotor skills were related to the onset of babbling and their phonetic inventory at 6 months of age. Methods Parents of 50 6‐month‐old infants (41 full‐term, 9 preterm) completed the Child Oral and Motor Proficiency Scale (ChOMPS), a valid and reliable caregiver‐report measure of oromotor ...
K. M. Allison   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chronology of Registrogenesis in Khmer: Analyses of Poetry and Inscriptions

open access: yesJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
This study examines the phonological changes in Khmer, focusing on the loss of onset voicing, the emergence of register contrast, and the development of a bifurcated vowel system.
Maspong, Sireemas
doaj  

Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

open access: yesArea, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Neurophysiology in Realistic Contexts: Big Hype or Big Leap?

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Neuroscience, Volume 63, Issue 12, June 2026.
Speech neurophysiology is moving from controlled listening tasks to dynamic, socially rich interactions, challenging traditional methods. This shift promises deeper insights into how the brain processes and represents speech in real‐world contexts, while introducing new analytical complexities.
Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Emily Y. J. Ip
wiley   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 565-596, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Language comprehension and the rhythm of perception

open access: yesMind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 402-424, June 2026.
It is widely agreed that language understanding has a distinctive phenomenology, as illustrated by phenomenal contrast cases. Yet it remains unclear how to account for the perceptual phenomenology of language experience. I advance a rhythmic account, which explains this phenomenology in terms of changes in the rhythm of sensory capacities in both ...
Alfredo Vernazzani
wiley   +1 more source

How pre‐service L2 English teachers use accounts to mitigate turn allocation to unwilling participants in microteaching

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 568-595, Summer 2026.
Abstract This study investigates how pre‐service L2 English teachers manage turn allocation when student willingness to participate is uncertain or absent during microteaching sessions. Drawing on conversation analysis (CA), we examine video‐recorded teaching demonstrations conducted by undergraduate L2 English education majors in South Korea.
Eunseok Ro, Hyunwoo Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applied Linguistics, sociolinguistics and world Englishes

open access: yesWorld Englishes, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 232-246, June 2026.
Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
wiley   +1 more source

Weaving Political Identities: Jean‐Luc Nancy, Empedocles, and (the Later) Plato

open access: yes
Constellations, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 185-193, June 2026.
Benjamin Hutchens
wiley   +1 more source

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