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To what extent does the general public endorse language myths? 公众在多大程度上认可语言神话?
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12486
Laura Wagner, Sumurye Awani, Nikole D. Patson, Rebekah Stanhope
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引用次数: 1
Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody 人的自我驯化与韵律的进化
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-05-02 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12485
Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Wendy Elvira-García
{"title":"Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody","authors":"Antonio Benítez-Burraco,&nbsp;Wendy Elvira-García","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12485","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human self-domestication refers to a new evolutionary hypothesis about human origins. According to this view, humans have experienced changes that are similar to those observed in domesticated mammals and that have provided us with many of the behavioural, and perhaps cognitive pre-requisites for supporting our complex social practices and advanced culture. At the core of this hypothesis is the claim that self-domestication is triggered by (and entails) a reduction in reactive aggression responses. The human self-domestication hypothesis has been recently used to explain how grammars became more sophisticated via a cultural mechanism. Nonetheless, less research has been done in the domain of phonology, even though animal evidence suggests that domestication favours call complexity too. In this paper, we hypothesise about the effects of our increased self-domestication on human prosody. We argue for a progressive complexification of prosody that parallels (and might be involved in a positive feed-back loop with) the complexification of grammar in response to a reduction in reactive aggression. We build on evidence of diverse nature, from language typology to brain function to language acquisition studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"17 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lnc3.12485","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50118192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Towards establishing what linguists think the general public should know about language: Salient versus important issues in linguistics 建立语言学家认为公众应该了解的语言：语言学中的突出问题与重要问题
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12482
Tomas Lehecka, Jan-Ola Östman
{"title":"Towards establishing what linguists think the general public should know about language: Salient versus important issues in linguistics","authors":"Tomas Lehecka,&nbsp;Jan-Ola Östman","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12482","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In order to develop effective strategies of science communication and public outreach in linguistics, one needs to choose what topics to prioritise in such efforts. We carried out a global online survey study among experts in linguistics (<i>n</i> = 538) asking what they perceive as the most important facts about language that the general public should be aware of. We used two distinct methods to collect the respondents' opinions: open-ended text responses and rating questions. In this paper, we compare the findings from the two tasks and we discuss the differences between them. Thus, the paper constitutes a methodologically-laden commentary on the nature of linguists' opinions on what everyone should know about language. We argue that both open-ended responses and rating questions provide valuable information about linguists' views, but from different perspectives. In particular, we see a need to distinguish between what issues are the most salient to linguists, and what issues are perceived as the most important. The aim of our study is to provide a starting point for a rich and methodologically diverse line of research—and, consequently, for an empirically-based debate—on the public relevance of language-related knowledge and the role of linguists as science communicators in disseminating that knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50146117","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}
引用次数: 0
Discourse-level adaptation in pronoun comprehension 代词理解中的语篇顺应
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12481
Yining Ye, Jennifer E. Arnold
{"title":"Discourse-level adaptation in pronoun comprehension","authors":"Yining Ye,&nbsp;Jennifer E. Arnold","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12481","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is well established that people adapt to statistical regularities at phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels. Much less is known about adaptation to discourse-level structures, such as adaptation to structures defined as the relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent. To fill this gap, this paper reviews studies on the learning of referential patterns by asking (1) do people represent referential structures, (2) how long do discourse-level representations last, (3) how specific are representations that are used for referential adaptation, (4) what mechanisms underlie this adaptation, and (5) what the current methods are used to test referential adaptation. This paper also briefly summarises the work on adaptation at other linguistic levels. This line of work extends adaptation to higher-level structures and demonstrates how people learn language patterns that drive successful communication and reading skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149027","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}
引用次数: 0
Using principal component analysis to explore co-variation of vowels 运用主成分分析法探讨元音的共变异
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-17 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12479
Joshua Wilson Black, James Brand, Jen Hay, Lynn Clark
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引用次数: 2
Issues in Uyghur phonology 维吾尔语音韵学问题
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12478
Connor Mayer, Adam McCollum, Gülnar Eziz
{"title":"Issues in Uyghur phonology","authors":"Connor Mayer,&nbsp;Adam McCollum,&nbsp;Gülnar Eziz","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12478","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lnc3.12478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents an overview of several significant aspects of the phonology of Uyghur (ISO: uig; pronounced [ʊjˈʁʊr]; Turkic: China). In addition to summarising previous research, we present new data and highlight its relevance for phonological theory. The paper focuses primarily on the processes of backness harmony, rounding harmony, and vowel reduction. Particular attention is paid to the complex, and sometimes opaque, interactions between these processes, as well as the role of phonological exceptionality.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"16 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lnc3.12478","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122945266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars 儿童遗产说话者语法的结构变化
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12480
Naomi Shin
{"title":"Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars","authors":"Naomi Shin","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12480","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lnc3.12480","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of <i>structured variation</i>, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors. This article reviews the limited research on bilingual children's structured variation, focussing specifically on child heritage speakers of Spanish. It is argued that careful attention to structured variation advances our understanding of heritage language development in childhood and can help us move beyond a deficit view of bilingualism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"16 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lnc3.12480","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120837092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English 有形无形:中产阶级非裔美国人英语的研究
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12477
Tracey L. Weldon
{"title":"Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English","authors":"Tracey L. Weldon","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12477","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lnc3.12477","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle the stigma associated with working class vernacular varieties and improve outcomes for working class speakers who face linguistic discrimination in schools. An unfortunate by-product of this laudable effort, however, has been the erasure of middle-class speakers from our conceptualisations of the AAE speech community and a virtual obsession with the vernacular end of the AAE continuum. By interrogating the concept of the linguistic lame and giving greater attention to patterns of code-switching and the ways in which talking Black or sounding Black get defined at the more standard end of the continuum, sociolinguists have an opportunity to broaden our understanding of AAE and its community of speakers and, in so doing, possibly extend our reach to a more diverse and inclusive audience of budding linguists.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"16 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lnc3.12477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132202654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5–7 year-olds: Insights from psychological research 支持5-7岁儿童在整个课程中学习形容词:来自心理学研究的见解
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12476
Catherine Davies, Kristen Syrett, Lucy Taylor, Samantha Wilkes, Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez
{"title":"Supporting adjective learning across the curriculum by 5–7 year-olds: Insights from psychological research","authors":"Catherine Davies,&nbsp;Kristen Syrett,&nbsp;Lucy Taylor,&nbsp;Samantha Wilkes,&nbsp;Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12476","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation subjects, children are expected to describe, measure, classify, and compare objects and events—all processes that require a mastery of adjective meanings and use. While teachers are trained in vocabulary learning, they may be less familiar with: (i) the psychological processes by which children learn adjectives, and (ii) how a focus on adjectives can support learning in domains beyond language and literacy lessons. To address these gaps, we have collaborated as a unique interdisciplinary team with linguistic, psychological, and pedagogical expertise. We synthesise research across our disciplines to provide an accessible, practical, evidence-based primer of research findings on adjective development. We then provide guidance on how these findings can be used to enhance teaching and learning practices across subjects for children aged five to seven.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"16 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/lnc3.12476","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137746988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
(Socio)linguistic indices of the codification of Nigerian English 尼日利亚英语编纂的(社会)语言指标
IF 2.5
Language and Linguistics Compass Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12475
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
{"title":"(Socio)linguistic indices of the codification of Nigerian English","authors":"Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi","doi":"10.1111/lnc3.12475","DOIUrl":"10.1111/lnc3.12475","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although many studies in world Englishes research have examined the sociocultural and political factors that shape the development of varieties of English in non-native contexts, there has been limited work on the range of codificatory instruments that engender the standardisation of these ‘new’ Englishes, especially in specific reference to Nigerian English (NE). Examining the extent of the codification of new Englishes is particularly critical in terms of their institutionalisation and eventual acceptance, both locally and internationally. In light of this, this article draws evidence from existing research and institutional efforts and policies to show where NE lies in the process of codification. The analysis indicates that, while there is an avalanche of evidence of (socio)linguistic indices showing that NE is being radically codified, the range of codificatory instruments (e.g., dictionaries, style manuals, grammars, pedagogies, language policies) remain limited.</p>","PeriodicalId":47472,"journal":{"name":"Language and Linguistics Compass","volume":"16 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134457684","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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