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African Lambdas I: Formal Semantics of African Languages—The Nominal Domain 非洲语义学1：非洲语言的形式语义学——名义域

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-12-26 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70025

Malte Zimmermann

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Predictability Affects Spoken Phonological Systems Indirectly 可预测性间接影响语音系统

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70029

Uriel Cohen Priva

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Inter-Turn Silences: Duration, Interpretation and Mechanisms 回合间沉默：持续时间、解释和机制

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-12-07 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70027

Anuja M. Thomas, Keri Anne Gladhill, Michael P. Kaschak

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Advances in the Historical Linguistics of Signed Languages 手语历史语言学研究进展

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-10-21 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70026

Justin M. Power, David Quinto-Pozos, Danny Law

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A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Linear Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 1, Social Factors 在加拿大海事英语中建立（ING）广义线性混合模型树指南：第1部分，社会因素

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70020

Matt Hunt Gardner

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Towards Destabilising Standard Language Ideologies: A Genealogy of the Spelling Bee 走向不稳定的标准语言意识形态：拼字比赛的族谱

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70023

Mike Metz

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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies 语言多样化和变化率：来自不同社会语言学研究样本的见解

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-09-28 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70022

John Mansfield

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The Role of Play in Language Structure, Acquisition and Evolution 游戏在语言结构、习得和演变中的作用

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70021

Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer

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Truth-Value Judgment Tasks in Second Language Research 第二语言研究中的真值判断任务

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70019

Shaohua Fang, Elaine J. Francis

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Languages Without Tense 没有时态的语言

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Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.70017

Maziar Toosarvandani

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