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Bidirectionality in bilingualism? Asymmetry in L1 Spanish-L2 English vs. L1 English-L2 Spanish bilinguals

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103898

Teresa Quesada , Cristóbal Lozano

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Sequential patterns of lexical categories in Chinese–English interpreting: Insights into linguistic and cognitive constraints

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103900

Haibo Jia , Junying Liang

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Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103901

Víctor Garre-León

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Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103902

Bertus Van Rooy , Roné Wierenga

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Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103899

Dandan Wu , Hui Li , Sheila Degotardi

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Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103887

Giorgia Zorzi , Gro Hege Saltnes Urdal , Eli Raanes

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Non-canonical patterns of definiteness agreement in Hebrew

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884

Ruth Stern

{"title":"Non-canonical patterns of definiteness agreement in Hebrew","authors":"Ruth Stern","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines a non-canonical construction in Hebrew: a definite NP consisting of a head noun and an attributive adjective, where the head is not marked with a definite article but the adjective is. This construction deviates from the standard rules of Hebrew grammar, which require agreement in definiteness marking between the noun and its adjective. The analysis is based on a corpus of twelve Hebrew works from the Interim Period and addresses the construction in both Classical Hebrew and the Hebrew of the late Interim Period. The findings reveal that the transition from the former period, when Hebrew was a spoken language, to the latter, when it became predominantly a written language, influenced the distribution and underlying factors of this construction. Furthermore, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, two distinct periods within the Interim Period, significantly impacted the Hebrew language, fostering linguistic development and change, even before Hebrew regained its status as a spoken language. The study demonstrates how a single linguistic phenomenon can arise from diverse factors, reflecting the historical and cultural transformations that shaped Hebrew and its speakers over the centuries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103884"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096737","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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L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896

Devyani Sharma

{"title":"L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change","authors":"Devyani Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies of New Englishes often examine contact-based change by comparing the two language systems involved, to see if feature <em>x</em> from the substrate language appears in the contact variety. In this article I show that this approach is incomplete. Looking across a bilingual cline of Indian English speakers, I show that only some substrate features have stabilized across the whole population, and that a different subset of the same features has stabilized in Singapore English. L1 transfer alone cannot account for this difference; it over-predicts change. I focus on a different hallmark of postcolonial Englishes—diminishing input from the original colonial English variety—and show the need for a further factor, input demand<em>:</em> the amount of input needed to acquire an L2 syntactic form given a specific L1. The relative strength of the two factors is then assessed in a four-way typology of syntactic changes. Both are instrumental in long-term stable outcomes, but substrate type appears to sometimes place hard limits on aspects of learnability regardless of input. The study demonstrates the importance of key constructs in Second Language Acquisition theory for the study of long-term contact-driven language change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103896"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141057","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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Four types of passives in Japanese and their cross-linguistic implications

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873

Hidehito Hoshi

{"title":"Four types of passives in Japanese and their cross-linguistic implications","authors":"Hidehito Hoshi","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the variety of so-called “passive constructions” can be viewed in terms of subject demotion and object promotion. I propose that four types of passives may logically exist due to possible combinations of the two independent operations: (i) both subject demotion and object promotion occur; (ii) only subject demotion occurs; (iii) only object promotion occurs; and (iv) neither subject demotion nor object promotion occurs but passive morphology is involved, demonstrating that they are all attested in Japanese. I argue that free Merge allows the Japanese passive morpheme (<em>r</em>)<em>are</em> to be externally merged with main V, little v, or [V-v] that is also created by External Merge, yielding V-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, v-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, and [V-v]-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, respectively, with the result that the external θ-role is absorbed in V-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, accusative Case is absorbed in v-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, and both of them are absorbed in [V-v]-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>. I also show that (<em>r</em>)<em>are</em> can occur as a main verb, inducing neither subject demotion nor object promotion, but the passive sense may be expressed via assignment of an affectee θ-role to the surface subject. The analysis proposed here opens up new possibilities for unifying ways of generating the so-called non-canonical passives observed in various languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"315 ","pages":"Article 103873"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156144","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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Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103876

Norberto Jr. Cardenales Cardona, Rebecca Rico

{"title":"Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish","authors":"Norberto Jr. Cardenales Cardona, Rebecca Rico","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103876","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103876","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Caribbean has long been the subject of study for various dialect features. Many of these phenomena have been documented in Puerto Rico, including aspiration or deletion of /s/ velarization of /r/ postposition of the verb and velarization of word-final /n/. Although widely noted to be a feature of Puerto Rican Spanish, no recent quantitative study has been completed on the latter phenomenon. The current study measures the linguistic constraints that favor velarization of word-final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish. It empirically studies word-final /n/ velarization in this dialect with a Usage-Based Approach (UBA). A multivariate statistical analysis of linguistic factors is done using Rbrul on 988 tokens. The tokens were taken from a corpus of a recorded Puerto Rican radio program and analyzed in PRAAT. The study measures and weighs factors that favor word-final /n/ velarization, analyzing language-internal factors and no social factors. The results show the context that favors word-final /n/ velarization is the following segment and word stress. This result is situated using the framework of the exemplar model of language representation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"315 ","pages":"Article 103876"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101136","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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