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Personality in your hands: How extraversion traits influence preference for pointing in Chinese people 掌握在你手中的个性：外向特质如何影响中国人的指向偏好

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2226094

Heng Li

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Uncovering ergative use in Murrinhpatha: Evidence from experimental data 揭示Murrinhpatha中的作格使用：来自实验数据的证据

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2222086

R. Nordlinger, E. Kidd

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Australian English speakers’ attitudes to fricated coda /t/ 澳大利亚英语使用者对摩擦尾音/t的态度/

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2223506

Timothy Shea, Andy Gibson, Anita Szakay, Felicity Cox

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Cross-referencing of non-subject arguments in Pama-Nyungan languages 帕马-纽根语中非主语参数的交叉引用

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2217412

Thomas Ennever, Mitchell Browne

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The Kaytetye segmental inventory Kaytetye分部存货

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2218270

Mark Harvey, Nay San, Michael Proctor, Forrest Panther, Myfany Turpin

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From separate clause to epistemic adverbial, the neglected source construction and initial-to-medial pathway: Chinese guoran ‘it really happens’ 从分句到认识状语，被忽视的源结构和首-中通路：中国果然“它真的发生了”

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2149256

Haiping Long, F. Ursini, B. Heine, Yaohua Luo

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Toward a typology of tonogenesis: Revising the model 走向眼压发生的类型学：对模型的修正

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2157675

Gwendolyn Hyslop

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Negation and underlying spatial cognition: The evolution of Chinese mei (you) as a case study 否定与潜在空间认知:以中国“媚”的演变为例

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2023.2198078

Yuanhuang Zhang

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Multiparty storytelling in Umpila and Kuuku Ya’u Umpila和Kuuku Ya 'u的多方故事

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2153580

Clair Hill

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Tensions in talking about disasters: Habitual versus climate-informed – The case of bushfire vocabulary in Australia 谈论灾难时的紧张关系:习惯与气候信息——以澳大利亚丛林大火词汇为例

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Australian Journal of Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/07268602.2022.2148455

H. Bromhead

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