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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103754

Wenting Xue , Meichun Liu , Stephen Politzer-Ahles , Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng

{"title":"Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs","authors":"Wenting Xue , Meichun Liu , Stephen Politzer-Ahles , Ovid Jyh-Lang Tzeng","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103754","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examined whether entity-denoting complements of <em>psych verbs</em> and <em>aspectual verbs</em> engender identical processing profiles. Previous literature has suggested that both verb types require an event-denoting complement and “coerce” an underspecified event sense when combined with an entity-denoting complement. The present study, including three norming tests and a self-paced reading experiment, recorded reading times of Mandarin Chinese speakers on entity complements preceded by three types of verbs: <em>aspectual verbs</em>, which require an eventive complement; <em>psych verbs</em>, which are subject to debate recently on their complement constraints; and <em>control verbs</em>, which select an entity complement, as represented in <em>zuòjiākāishǐ/xiǎngshòu/zhuànxiězhè-běn xiǎoshuō</em> “The author started/enjoyed/ wrote the novel.” It is found that the entity complements following aspectual verbs elicited longer reading times than those following psych and control verbs, particularly at the two words immediately after the complement. The results confirm the processing cost yielded by complement coercion, and more importantly, contribute evidence to constrain the mechanism of complement coercion to aspectual verbs only.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"306 ","pages":"Article 103754"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141156345","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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Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis 现代标准阿拉伯语中反义词对的顺序：基于语料库的分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103742

Hamada S.A. Hassanein , Basant S.M. Moustafa

{"title":"Sequential order of antonym pairs in Modern Standard Arabic: A corpus-based analysis","authors":"Hamada S.A. Hassanein , Basant S.M. Moustafa","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103742","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study investigates the rules which govern antonym sequences in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) by means of triangulation, i.e., a mixed-method design of quantification and qualification, whereby corpus tools are utilized to identify and examine antonym sequences in the Arabic corpus arTenTen18 integrated in Sketch Engine online interface. Ranging from qualitative to quantitative analyses, several studies took the order of antonym pairs in various languages as their focus, but no previous study examined this linguistic phenomenon in MSA using corpus-based methods. To give a panoramic account and conduct a rigorous analysis of antonym sequence in MSA, the current study combines both quantitative and qualitative approaches based upon studies across English, Serbian, Chinese, Persian, and Qur’anic Arabic, respectively. The study concludes that all the previously investigated antonym sequence rules drawn from English, Serbian, Chinese, Persian, and Qur’anic Arabic are replicable with an MSA corpus. Moreover, the rules controlling the co-occurrences of antonym pairs were also found to occasionally overlap. Contextual factors were found to play a crucial role in determining which rules are operative and which are solidly overruled.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"306 ","pages":"Article 103742"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141164080","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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Comparative linguistic analysis with Firthian collocations: Cases of synonym differentiation and proficiency assessment 使用 Firthian 词组进行比较语言学分析：同义词区分和能力评估案例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103755

Daohuan Liu, Xuri Tang

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ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds 节奏模式对汉语三音节 NN 复合词语义加工影响的 ERP 证据

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103756

Zuxuan Qin , Shengqin Cao , Kaiwen Cheng

{"title":"ERP evidence for the effect of rhythmic patterns on the semantic processing of Chinese trisyllabic NN compounds","authors":"Zuxuan Qin , Shengqin Cao , Kaiwen Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The collocation of a monosyllable and a disyllable stands as a distinctive prosodic feature of Chinese. Whether rhythm is the decisive factor for acceptability of the collocation is still controversial in Chinese linguistics. This study has investigated this issue by exploring the influence of rhythmic patterns (2 + 1 disyllable + monosyllable vs. 1 + 2 monosyllable + disyllable) on the reading of Chinese noun-noun compounds (NN compounds) through an event-related potential (ERP) experiment. We found that, in terms of behavioral data, rhythmic patterns exerted a distinct meaning-modulating effect, namely, the abnormal rhythmic pattern (1 + 2) tends to reduce the semantic acceptability of NN compounds. ERP data showed that, the normal rhythmic pattern (2 + 1) elicited a larger N100 component than the abnormal one in semantically incongruent conditions; a rhythm-modulated N400 component was followed by a later positive component (LPC) associated with the re-analysis of compounds. Both behavioral and ERP data revealed a greater cognitive effort required to process NN compounds when semantics and rhythm were incongruent. These findings indicate that rhythmic patterns and semantics interactively affect the reading processing of Chinese NN compounds, and that rhythmic expectations may prevail in the semantic processing of Chinese compounds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"306 ","pages":"Article 103756"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141077976","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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A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French 基于语料库的法语单词首音 /ʒ/ 强化分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103752

Delin Deng

{"title":"A corpus-based analysis of the fortition of the word-initial /ʒ/ in French","authors":"Delin Deng","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103752","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Based on data extracted from two French sociolinguistic corpora, ESLO 1 (1968–1971) and ESLO 2 (2008–), this article discusses the case of a new linguistic variation and change in French native speech in France: the fortition of the word-initial fricative /ʒ/. In total, 12,276 occurrences of words beginning with /ʒ/ were identified. Mixed-effect logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine both phonological environments (the preceding phonemes and the coronal status of the preceding phonemes) and social factors (the age, gender, and socioeconomic status of the speakers). The results demonstrate that the fortition of the initial /ʒ/ is influenced by both linguistic and social factors. Notably, the initial fortition in this study was an ongoing change led by men in ESLO 1. However, its use has already spread to both gender groups in ESLO 2. From a diachronic perspective, this study suggests that the observed initial fortition is not a reverse deaffrication process but rather a gradual increase in its natural occurrence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"306 ","pages":"Article 103752"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000810/pdfft?md5=edca500d4bb973488c6100defd550d43&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000810-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140947700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Alternation in the Chinese Event-quantifying Construction: A multivariate approach 中国事件量化结构中的交替：多元方法

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103741

Zenan Chen, Bin Shao

{"title":"Alternation in the Chinese Event-quantifying Construction: A multivariate approach","authors":"Zenan Chen, Bin Shao","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In modern Chinese, an object can precede or follow a quantifier (numeral + verbal classifier) when they co-occur after a verb, which is supposedly affected by multiple factors. Within a usage-based probabilistic variationist framework, this study defines the above ordering as the alternation of the Event-quantifying Construction and examines ten potential variables that probabilistically constrain the construction alternation, using three multivariate methods. Results indicated that six variables significantly affect the selection of the two variants, i.e., “Quantifier-first construction” and “Object-first construction”, including the animacy, definiteness, givenness, and pronominality of objects, as well as the length difference between objects and quantifiers and the type of verbal classifiers. The two variants differ in the values of these variables, which may result from the postverbal constraint, the end-focus principle, and the end-weight principle in Chinese. However, these distinctions in the formal or semantic aspects will be neutralized in natural communication, thereby allowing the alternation of this construction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103741"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140906763","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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L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese 汉语第二语言习得分词复沓法

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103736

Jiajia Su

{"title":"L2 acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese","authors":"Jiajia Su","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103736","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of classifier reduplication in Chinese by Korean speakers and English speakers. Unlike the individuation function of simple classifiers, reduplicated classifiers express plurality. <em>Yi-Cl-Cl</em> encodes abundant plural and is associated with [plural, abundant] features, while <em>Cl-Cl</em> encodes distributive plural and is associated with [plural, distributive] features. Thirty-two English-speaking and thirty-five Korean-speaking learners of Chinese at advanced and intermediate Chinese proficiency levels were tested using a grammaticality judgment task and a truth value judgment task. The group and individual results show that, though great acquisition difficulties were encountered, both English and Korean speakers can eventually acquire the features associated with classifier reduplication. This empirical study contributes to the L2 theory of feature reassembly, by looking into the process of feature reassembly when the linguistic property is morphologically and semantically complex, and form-meaning transparency is low. This study also provides new data on the L2 acquisition of classifiers and plurality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103736"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000652/pdfft?md5=4ef010333051d5fec713c6f4048c7481&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000652-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140822757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s 发展中（原）语言简介

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103740

Nathalie Gontier , Monika Boruta Żywiczyńska , Sverker Johansson , Lorraine McCune

{"title":"Introduction to Evolving (Proto)Language/s","authors":"Nathalie Gontier , Monika Boruta Żywiczyńska , Sverker Johansson , Lorraine McCune","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103740","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholarly opinions vary on what language is, how it evolved, and from where or what it evolved. Long considered uniquely human, today scholars argue for evolutionary continuity between human language and animal communication systems. But while it is generally recognized that language is an evolving communication system, scholars continue to debate from which species language evolved, and what behavioral and cognitive features are the precursors to human language. To understand the nature of protolanguage, some look for homologs in gene functionality, brain areas, or anatomical structures such as the supralaryngeal vocal tract; others point toward primates, their gestural, vocal, multimodal, and in later evolving hominins also their pantomimic communication systems; and still others draw parallels between the musicality that characterizes language and the pitch found in the numerous sounds produced by animals. Accordingly, protolanguage theories today are multiple and diverse, and protolanguages might have also been diverse. This special issue on Evolving (Proto)Language/s for Lingua bundles several of the protolanguage theories that were put forward at the sixth edition of the Ways to Protolanguage conference series, held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, in 2019. Not aimed at surveying all the different ways there are to conceptualize, study, and model protolanguage/s, this issue provides interested readers with good overviews on the role played in current theorizing on protolanguage/s by (paleo)anthropology, genetics, physiology, developmental, evolutionary, ecological, and pragmatic research lines.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103740"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140815468","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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Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts 在四种英语语言环境中，母语感知和说话者声音是（非）英语母语者英语评价的预测因素

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103737

Warda Nejjari, Roeland van Hout, Marinel Gerritsen, Brigitte Planken

{"title":"Nativeness perceptions and speaker voice as predictors of (non-)native English speaker evaluations in four ELF contexts","authors":"Warda Nejjari, Roeland van Hout, Marinel Gerritsen, Brigitte Planken","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103737","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigated the extent to which responses (<em>N</em> = 6617) by four L2 English listener groups (The Netherlands: <em>n</em> = 1701; Germany: <em>n</em> = 1606; Spain: <em>n</em> = 1647; Singapore: <em>n</em> = 1663) were affected by giving L1 English speaker status to standard L1 British and American English accents, compared with a typical Dutch English accent. We assessed the extent to which <em>presumed nativeness</em> impacted speaker evaluations (status, affect, dynamism), and the extent to which a speaker’s <em>voice</em> influenced speaker evaluations by analyzing listener responses to verbal and matched guises. The results showed that presumptions of a speaker’s nativeness significantly impacted speaker evaluations on all dimensions, and we therefore conclude that speaker evaluations are also based on listeners’ views on a speaker's nativeness. In addition, speaker evaluations were influenced by a speaker’s voice to such an extent that this can lead to significantly more positive/negative speaker evaluations of both L1 and L2 English speakers. Finally, this study confirms the relevance and main benefit of the matched-guise technique in accentedness research, compared with the verbal-guise technique, since the former successfully minimizes the actual impact of voice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103737"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000664/pdfft?md5=95ac09be50e6ee3ad28721883ed166f5&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000664-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140645942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gender stereotypes, patriarchal beliefs, and normative generics: A survey-based measure of what Polish parents communicate in norm-breaching scenarios involving children 性别刻板印象、重男轻女观念和规范性泛型：基于调查的波兰父母在涉及子女的违反规范情景中的沟通内容测量方法

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735

Daniel Karczewski , Alicja Zawistowska-Sadowska , Marcin Trojszczak

{"title":"Gender stereotypes, patriarchal beliefs, and normative generics: A survey-based measure of what Polish parents communicate in norm-breaching scenarios involving children","authors":"Daniel Karczewski , Alicja Zawistowska-Sadowska , Marcin Trojszczak","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103735","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Normative generics, which are statements that can be seen as reflecting the social world, can be powerful tools by which parents convey norms to children. In this article, we explored how two interrelated issues, the perceived salience of gender stereotypes and the socially constructed system of patriarchy, could affect what parents communicate in the context of parent–child interactions that concern the breaching of a salient gender norm. By analyzing data from two perception studies, we found that some norms pertaining to hair length or table manners triggered a more frequent use of normative generics than other norms and that the individuals who espoused traditional gender values tended to prefer one mode of norm responsiveness (i.e., norm-following) and used more normative generics than those espousing nontraditional gender norms. In this way, the study contributed to our understanding of how rules of behavior shared by members of a given group, as well as beliefs in a system of hierarchical power, might favor the use of normative generics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"305 ","pages":"Article 103735"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140638465","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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