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Distinguishing Hawai‘i Creole neva and néva: prosodic evidence from podcast interviews 区分夏威夷克里奥尔语 neva 和 néva：来自播客访谈的发音证据

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-04-06 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2022

Keolakawai K. G. Spencer

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The grammaticalization of the existential sign var in Turkish Sign Language: a Construction Grammar approach 土耳其手语中存在性手语变体的语法化：构造语法方法

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2020

Bahtiyar Makaroğlu

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What is a Chinese word? Lexical constructionalization in Chinese 什么是汉语词？汉语中的词汇构词法

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2023

Liulin Zhang

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Another member out of the family: the description of manner of gait in Changana verbs of motion 家庭中的另一个成员：昌加纳运动动词中对步态的描述

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2016

Sérgio N. Menete, Guiying Jiang

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On the unified representation of continuity and discontinuity and its neurocognitive grounding 关于连续性和不连续性的统一表征及其神经认知基础

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2017

Ratna Nirupama, Prakash Mondal

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The ‘Still Not’ Present in Andi: identifying the grammaticalization source 安迪语中的 "仍未 "现在时：确定语法化来源

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2007

Timur Maisak, Samira Verhees

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An investigation of Persian response signals from an interactive perspective 从互动角度研究波斯反应信号

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-13 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2015

Soleiman Ghaderi

{"title":"An investigation of Persian response signals from an interactive perspective","authors":"Soleiman Ghaderi","doi":"10.1515/flin-2024-2015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/flin-2024-2015","url":null,"abstract":"Response signals (RS) have emerged as a powerful interaction tool, but they have yet to be fully understood. The current study analyzes 16 h of daily conversations using discourse-pragmatic frameworks to discuss certain aspects of the most prevalent primary and secondary Persian RSs. An RS is identified as a brief interactive response to a prior speaker’s statement, typically expressing (dis)confirmation, (un)acceptance, or backchannel (including assessment and continuer feedback). The research also differentiates and compares the functional and distributional differences and similarities between confirmation and backchannel signals. Following that, it takes a semasiological approach and discusses how the emergence, overlap, and markedness of certain functions for an item can be determined by the persistence of its original propositional meaning as well as the item’s grammaticalization and cooptation. The paper thus reviews the markedness of the backchannel function for na ‘no’ compared to this function’s development for ɂāre ‘yes’. Last but not least, cross-linguistic phonological tendencies, such as the integration of the phoneme /ɂ/ or /h/ in positive RSs and click sounds in negative ones, are supported by Persian RSs and their variants.","PeriodicalId":45269,"journal":{"name":"Folia Linguistica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140146841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Katerina Stathi, Granularity in the verbalization of events and objects Katerina Stathi，《事件和物体语言化的颗粒性

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2012

Å. Viberg

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VOT in English by bilinguals with 2L1s: different approaches to voiceless and voiced stops 具有 2L1s 的双语者的英语 VOT：处理无声和有声停顿的不同方法

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2014

Sha Liu, Kaye Takeda

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Evidentials and dubitatives in Finnish: perspective shift in questions and embedded contexts 芬兰语中的证据词和疑问词：问题和嵌入式语境中的视角转换

IF 0.6 2区文学

Folia Linguistica Pub Date : 2024-03-05 DOI: 10.1515/flin-2024-2002

Elsi Kaiser

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