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A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers 更好还是更差的交流者？比较人工翻译和机器翻译在源语言中的跨语域效果

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103834

Jia Li , Xianyao Hu

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Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors 建立一套识别名词化隐喻的原则体系

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-11-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103832

Wen Li , Bingjun Yang

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Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study 研究文章摘要词汇密度的异时变化：基于语料库的研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103837

Haoran Zhu , Teng Wang , Nana Pang

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The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing 语音重叠和同源物在双语语音加工中的作用

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-10-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103831

Xiaoping Liu , Yan Zhang , Bingjie Zeng , Ye Liu , Xiaolu Wang

{"title":"The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing","authors":"Xiaoping Liu , Yan Zhang , Bingjie Zeng , Ye Liu , Xiaolu Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Most previous studies on Chinese-Japanese bilingual lexical access have shown that cognates can facilitate L2 Japanese word recognition, and phonological overlap cannot. However, the findings from this research challenge those findings. In this study, both high- and low- proficient JFL (Japanese as a Foreign Language) learners performed phoneme monitoring tasks in their second language. Orthographically similar words with high or low phonological and semantic similarity were fully crossed. Our results suggest that phonological overlap across Chinese and Japanese interferes with phoneme processing speed and accuracy, especially those of the low-proficient JFL learners. Yet as their L2 proficiency improves, this inhibition effect can become smaller. In addition, cognate semantic overlap marginally interacts with L2 proficiency to affect phoneme recognition, though cognates do not directly play a role in phoneme processing. The theoretical implications of our research suggest that phonology functions as a non-selective element in the phonological access phase for bilinguals literate in two logographic languages. Moreover, cross-logographic processing does not conform to the cascading model; instead, it can be more accurately described by the modular or interactive models of bilingual processing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142528458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Revisiting the connection between progressive aspect and motion event cognition: Evidence from L1 Mandarin Chinese and L2 Swedish 重新审视进行时方面与运动事件认知之间的联系：来自第一语言普通话和第二语言瑞典语的证据

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103827

Qiu-Jun Zhang

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On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English 韩语传承人在接触英语时的裸名词生成和大小写标记

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103826

Yuhyeon Seo , Alejandro Cuza

{"title":"On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English","authors":"Yuhyeon Seo , Alejandro Cuza","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The current study investigates the role of cross-linguistic influence, proficiency, and linguistic experience in the acquisition of Korean as a heritage language. Specifically, we examine Korean noun phrases and case marking among Korean heritage speakers born and raised in the US (<em>n</em> = 17) in comparison to Korean-dominant speakers in South Korea (<em>n</em> = 18). A total of 1,665 production data points were collected through a narrative task (<em>Little Red Riding Hood</em>). The analysis leveraged the differences in the usage of bare noun phrases and particles between Korean and English. The statistical results revealed that heritage speakers prefer noun phrases with a demonstrative over bare noun phrases compared to Korean-dominant speakers, a pattern similar to English structures. Furthermore, heritage speakers were likely to attach the topic marker to noun phrases, when it is less common among Korean-dominant speakers. These distinct patterns were more pronounced in the subject position than in the object position. In addition, Korean proficiency was found to be associated with the usage of bare noun phrases and case marking, with higher proficiency resulting in an increased likelihood of using target forms. These findings provide evidence for L2 cross-linguistic influence in the morphosyntactic domain and lend support to the Bilingual Alignment Approach.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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The effect of visual displays on the mastery of the forms and functions of English intonation by Chinese L2 students 视觉展示对中国中学生掌握英语语调形式和功能的影响

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103825

Na Zhi , Aijun Li , Chenyang Zhao

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Chinese nouns are mass nouns: An information-theoretic computational proof 中文名词是大量名词信息论计算证明

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103815

Wei Zhou , Guangyan Zhang , Yujie Chen

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Potential objects and transitivity variations: A comparable corpus-driven study of Mandarin Chinese Verb-Object compounds 潜在宾语和反义变化：由语料库驱动的普通话动宾复合词对比研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103814

Menghan Jiang , Chu-Ren Huang

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Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality 法语中的 Telic 运动结构和倾向性概念

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103791

Michel Aurnague

{"title":"Telic motion constructions in French and the notion of tendentiality","authors":"Michel Aurnague","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103791","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103791","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It has been regularly maintained that, while widespread in satellite-framed languages, constructions that associate an atelic verb of manner of motion with a spatial prepositional phrase (PP) to denote a telic motion are very rare in verb-framed languages. Yet, in French, these constructions are not as marginal as usually claimed especially as they involve an atelic vs. telic contrast, beyond the mere manner vs. path opposition. After a preliminary delimitation of the constructions studied and a brief presentation of the theoretical framework, this contribution checks the specific meaning properties of French atelic motion verbs that appear in telic motion constructions, using attested data. Cotextual, contextual and pragmatic parameters of the constructions are similarly highlighted by the qualitative analysis carried out. The paper also examines how the telic interpretation arises from the interplay of “tendential” verbs and spatial prepositions/PPs. This study completes a previous analysis by the author on various points, providing an in-depth delineation of the phenomenon at stake and its underpinnings, and focusing on several verbs and verbal locutions that, for different reasons, depart from the criteria identified (e.g., <em>aller</em> ‘to go’, <em>se déplacer</em> ‘to move (around)’, <em>glisser sur</em> ‘to slide on’, <em>grimper à</em> ‘to climb (up)’, <em>tomber</em> ‘to fall’).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142164428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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