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First acquiring articles in a second language: A new approach to the study of language and social cognition

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103851

Paula Rubio-Fernandez

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Interpreter mediation as other-initiated self-repair in court: Effects on the defence in Chinese bilingual criminal trials

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103850

Xiao Zhao , Jiahui Huang

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Sentence processing in Turkish: A review and future directions

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103835

Nazik Dinçtopal Deniz

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The merger of falling tones: A perception study in Taiyuan Jin Chinese

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103849

Zhenyi Liao, Lei Liang

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Visual priming and parsing preferences: A self-paced reading study of PP-attachment ambiguity in Dutch verb-final structures 视觉引导和解析偏好：荷兰语动词末级结构中 PP 附着模糊性的自定进度阅读研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103840

Sara Shoghi , Seçkin Arslan , Roelien Bastiaanse , Srdan Popov

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Towards a speech-gesture profile of discourse markers: The case of ‘I mean’ 建立话语标记的言语-手势轮廓：我是说

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103836

Yaoyao Chen , Svenja Adolphs , Dawn Knight

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Subjecthood and argument structure of synonymous Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat verbs across German and Icelandic 德语和冰岛语中同义的 Dat-Nom/Nom-Dat 动词的主语和参数结构

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103833

Joren Somers , Gard B. Jenset , Jóhanna Barðdal

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Shocking projections: The rise of the [x-shock] construction complex in macroeconomics 令人震惊的预测：宏观经济学中[X-冲击]建筑综合体的兴起

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103829

Todd Oakley , Vera Tobin , Adrian Vietorisz , Noah Slobodin , Katherine Gordon

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Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese 副词与句末语气词之间的依存关系：粤语中确认情态和非确认情态的案例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103830

Peppina Po-lun Lee

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Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses 汉语相对从句中的无间隙性

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103828

Chen Li , Seung-Man Kang

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