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When parsing and interpretation misalign: A case of WH-scope ambiguity in Mandarin 解析与解释不一致:普通话中wh范围歧义的一个案例

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Language Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.0004

M. Xiang, Zhewei Dai, Suiping Wang

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Show don't tell: Engaging the public in language science through a participatory experiment 展示而不是讲述:通过参与式实验让公众参与语言科学

IF 2.1 1区文学

Language Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0277

S. Arunachalam, Nick Bednar, Lindsay Burns, María Cobo Nieto, Laura Wagner

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Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian: Further support for an in-situ Q-equivalence approach to clausal ellipsis 英语和匈牙利语的重复片段:对小句省略的原位q等价方法的进一步支持

IF 2.1 1区文学

Language Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.0000

J. Griffiths, Güliz Güneş, A. Lipták

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The typology of external splits: Supplementary Material 外部分裂的类型:补充材料

IF 2.1 1区文学

Language Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2023.0008

G. Corbett

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Minimalist parsing ed. by Robert C. Berwick and Edward P. Stabler Robert C.Berwick和Edward P.Stabler主编的极简主义解析

IF 2.1 1区文学

Language Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1353/lan.2022.0024

C. Chesi

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Infixes really are (underlyingly) prefixes/suffixes: Evidence from allomorphy on the fine timing of infixation 中缀实际上是(潜在的)前缀/后缀:来自异形体的证据关于中缀的精细时机