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Factors affecting voice onset time in English stops 影响英语停顿音起始时间的因素

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.22040.che

Chun-yin Doris Chen, Wei-yun Winona Liu, Tzu-Fen Nellie Yeh

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Phylogenetic analyses for the origin of sortal classifiers in Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic languages 蒙古语、通古斯语和突厥语中分类词起源的系统发育分析

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.00031.her

Marc Allassonnière-Tang, Zhong-Liang Gao, Shen-An Chen, One-Soon Her

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Loanword adaptation of Japanese consonants in Kavalan 卡瓦兰语日语辅音的外来词改编

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.22045.lin

Hui-shan Lin

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A restructuring analysis of the non‑inferential evidential verb han in Siwkolan Amis Siwkolan Amis非推理性证据动词han的结构分析

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.22049.jhe

Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng

{"title":"A restructuring analysis of the non‑inferential evidential verb han in Siwkolan Amis","authors":"Wei-Cherng Sam Jheng","doi":"10.1075/consl.22049.jhe","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.22049.jhe","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This work aims to investigate the morphosyntactic properties of han in Siwkolan Amis and to defend a lexical split of han , one being a lexical category with argument structure and the other a functional category merging to Voice 0 . I argue that the functional han cannot be analyzed as a quotative verb or a pv -inflected verb as proposed in the literature, due to novel findings that han (a) is permitted in patient, instrumental and locative voice constructions, (b) represses the presence of voice affixes, (c) must stand immediately adjacent to the lexical verb and (d) encodes the non-inferential evidentiality. I follow Cinque’s (2004) functional approach to restructuring predicates by treating han as a functional category of Voice 0 and Shih & Lin’s (2011) voice Agree system where voice is a reflex of thematic relations. This analysis fares well with Wu’s ( 2006 , 2007 ) proposed system of undergoer voice in Amis which subsumes patient, instrument and locative voice in general. Moreover, the [ i θ] feature on Voice 0 is spelt out as han surfacing as a bound affix attached to the raised lexical verb from v 0 . Several issues involved in dealing with the Amis voice system and implications for the evidential systems in Formosan languages are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"31 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135933673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Directional verb constructions in Mandarin 汉语指向性动词结构

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.22048.lin

Chien-hung Lin, Jung-hsing Chang

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On the general classifiers ge and zàg in Hakka 论客家语中的一般分类词“ge”和“zàg”

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1075/consl.23003.hua

Han-Chun Huang

{"title":"On the general classifiers <i>ge</i> and <i>zàg</i> in Hakka","authors":"Han-Chun Huang","doi":"10.1075/consl.23003.hua","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/consl.23003.hua","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the distribution and properties of the Hakka general classifiers ge and zàg . We focus on the [determiner/numeral + classifier + noun] construction where we observe the relations between the general classifiers and their following nouns, chosen based on their frequency in this construction. We adopt a corpus-based collostructional analysis which calculates the collocational strength values of ge and zàg with following nouns. A Hakka corpus was compiled for the study. The three-way distinction in the collostructional analysis (attractive, neutral, and repulsive) is directly mapped to acceptability of various degrees. The results show that ge is highly correlated with human-denoting nouns, whereas zàg is highly correlated with animal-denoting nouns. Nouns denoting abstract entities or concrete objects without physical properties like size or shape usually lack specific classifiers, and both ge and zàg can collocate with them, albeit with varying degrees of preference. We argue that both ge and zàg are general classifiers because both are more frequently used than specific classifiers and both exhibit disjointed semantic distribution and allow abstract nouns. While they show preferences for different nouns, requirements to qualify as general classifiers are equally met.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"49 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135932867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in English Reading and Writing Classes with Nearpod 用Nearpod提高学生在英语阅读和写作课上的参与度和学习成果

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.17002/sil..69.202310.201

Jongbum Ha

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Quantitative Analysis of Dissimilatory /r/-dropping in American English: Based on the Buckeye Corpus 基于七叶语料库的美式英语中异化/r/降音的定量分析

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.17002/sil..69.202310.77

Chang-beom Park

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Research on the Content Validity of English Reading Test in Chinese High School Entrance Examination Based on Curriculum Standards -A Case Study of English Test Papers in Jilin Provincial High School Entrance Examination (2017-2021) 基于课程标准的中国中考英语阅读测试内容效度研究——以2017-2021年吉林省中考英语试卷为例

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.17002/sil..69.202310.233

Cong Qi, Xiaomeng Niu

{"title":"Research on the Content Validity of English Reading Test in Chinese High School Entrance Examination Based on Curriculum Standards -A Case Study of English Test Papers in Jilin Provincial High School Entrance Examination (2017-2021)","authors":"Cong Qi, Xiaomeng Niu","doi":"10.17002/sil..69.202310.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17002/sil..69.202310.233","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the 〈English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education〉 and Bacheman and Palmer’s task-characteristic framework, this paper adopted literature method and educational statistical method on the content validity of English reading test in Jilin Provincial High School Entrance Examination (2017-2021) from two dimensions of discourse input and expected response. The results showed that although the content validity of English reading test is high and meets the requirements of the 〈English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education〉 to a certain extent, there are still some problems in the test paper in the following five aspects: (1) the proportion of expository essay and narrative essay is relatively high, and the proportion of practical essay is the lowest; (2) the order of the texts is unreasonable; (3) on the whole, the texts are all not difficult; (4) the feature of “discourse” is not highlighted at the level of test points; (5) the examination to reading skills is not balanced. Based on the above research results, this paper provided some suggestions to the test-makers and middle school English teachers respectively.","PeriodicalId":41887,"journal":{"name":"Concentric-Studies in Linguistics","volume":"39 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136018501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An Analysis on Cultural Intelligence of International Students by their Korean Proficiency 从韩语水平看留学生的文化智力

Concentric-Studies in Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.17002/sil..69.202310.179

Soyoung Jeong

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