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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914191

Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha

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The interpretation and grammatical representation of animacy 万物有灵的解释和语法表征

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914193

M. Toosarvandani

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Linguist is as linguist does: A comparative study on the employment and income of graduates from linguistics programs in Canada: Supplemental material 语言学家就是语言学家：加拿大语言学专业毕业生就业和收入比较研究》：补充材料

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a915264

Kaitlyn Battershill, Victor Kuperman

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Assessing the inferential strength of epistemic must 评估认识论必须的推论强度

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914190

Giuseppe Ricciardi, Rachel Ryskin, Edward Gibson, Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, Anne Pycha, Gary Thoms, David Adger, C. Heycock, E. Jamieson, Jennifer Smith, M. Toosarvandani, John Baugh, Hee-Rahk Chae, James A. Walker, Kaitlyn Battershill, Victor Kuperman, Maria Ornella Treglia

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Linguistic emancipation 语言解放

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914194

John Baugh

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Engaging students in research and self-discovery: An integrative and student-centered approach to History of the English Language 让学生参与研究和自我探索：以学生为中心的英语语言史综合教学法

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914200

Maria Ornella Treglia

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Linguist is as linguist does: A comparative study on the employment and income of graduates from linguistics programs in Canada 语言学家就是语言学家：加拿大语言学专业毕业生就业和收入比较研究

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914199

Kaitlyn Battershill, Victor Kuperman

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Index to Volume 99 (2023) 第 99 卷（2023 年）索引

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914198

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Explanations in sociosyntactic variation ed. by Tanya Karoli Christensen and Torben Juel Jensen (review) 社会合成变异的解释》，Tanya Karoli Christensen 和 Torben Juel Jensen 编辑（评论）

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Language Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.a914196

James A. Walker

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The Cambridge handbook of Korean linguistics ed. by Sungdai Cho and John Whitman (review) Sungdai Cho 和 John Whitman 编著的《剑桥韩国语言学手册》（评论）

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