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The does not encode an anaphoric index: Evidence from kind uses The 并不编码拟声索引：实物使用的证据

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5764

Sadhwi Srinivas

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Phonological learning is asymmetrical between prefixes and suffixes 前缀和后缀之间的语音学习不对称

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2024-06-03 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5743

Darby Grachek, Elsi Kaiser

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Comprehension of complex syntactic structures in Southern varieties of American English and mainstream American English 理解美国英语南部变体和美国主流英语中的复杂句法结构

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5724

Christiana Christodoulou

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The fact that these are opinions: Processing and acceptability patterns of subjective vs. objective information embedded under the fact that 事实上，这些都是观点：主观信息与客观信息的处理和接受模式蕴含在以下事实中

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5739

Haley Hsu, Elsi M Kaiser

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The preserve of the rural elderly, or a language for modern life? Authenticity, anonymity and indexical ambiguity in Martinican Creole 是农村老人的专利，还是现代生活的语言？马提尼克克里奥尔语中的真实性、匿名性和索引模糊性

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5706

Chiara Ardoino, Noémie François-Haugrin, Stéphane Térosier

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Markedness can’t explain replacement patterns in suppletive paradigms 标记性无法解释补充范式中的替换模式

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5639

Matthew L. Juge

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Lio kinship terminology 廖族亲属术语

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-07-18 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5577

Arwen Fluit, Grace B. Wivell, Fransiskus X. Mbete

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A theoretical account of whale song syntax: A new perspective for understanding human language structure 鲸歌句法的理论解释:理解人类语言结构的新视角

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-07-09 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5571

Cutler Cannon

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¿Va primero el verbo? OR ¿El sujeto va primero?: Subject-verb order in Latin American Spanish 动词先来吗?或者主题是第一位的?= =地理= =根据美国人口普查，这个县的总面积为，其中土地和(0.984平方公里)水。

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5542

Lee-Ann Vidal Covas

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Role of markedness in the perception of Bengali stops 标记在孟加拉语认知中的作用

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5545

Sreeparna Sarkar

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