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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788

Konrad Szcześniak , Václav Řeřicha

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Corrigendum to “Disentangling sources of difficulty associated with the acquisition of accusative clitics in French” [Lingua 180 (2016) 1–24] 更正："厘清与法语指称语气词习得相关的困难来源" [Lingua 180 (2016) 1-24]

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103789

Hélène Delage, Stephanie Durrleman, Ulrich H. Frauenfelder

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The use of gender-fair language in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: A contrastive, corpus-based study 奥地利、德国和瑞士使用性别公平语言的情况：基于语料库的对比研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103787

Sabrina Link

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From nominal phrase ‘my word’ to agreement marker ‘Right(!)’: A pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Korean discourse marker nay mali 从名词性短语 "my word "到约定标记 "Right(!)"：韩语话语标记词 nay mali 的语用和韵律分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103774

Mikyung Ahn , Foong Ha Yap , Koonhyuk Byun

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Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation 寻找某人汉英对位翻译中不确定人称的编码

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103753

Ludovica Lena

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Morphosyntactic variation in spoken English in Dominica 多米尼克英语口语中的形态句法变异

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103777

Dagmar Deuber , Véronique Lacoste

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Unraveling the logical status of sentential relative clauses in English: Constructing a multifunctional framework 解读英语中句式相对从句的逻辑地位：构建多功能框架

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103775

Qi Liao, Chenguang Chang

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The impact of directionality on interpreters’ syntactic processing: Insights from syntactic dependency relation measures 方向性对口译员句法处理的影响：句法依存关系测量的启示

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103778

Han Xu, Kanglong Liu

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Past inflection around the world: A cross-variety analysis of New Englishes 世界各地的过去拐点：新英格兰语的跨语言分析

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103776

Stephanie Hackert, Catherine Laliberté, Diana Wengler

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Allophonic variation and its consequences: A lexical decision study on words in German 异音变化及其后果：德语词汇决策研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103700

Paula Orzechowska , Richard Wiese

{"title":"Allophonic variation and its consequences: A lexical decision study on <qu> words in German","authors":"Paula Orzechowska , Richard Wiese","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>German onsets allow a consonant cluster spelt <qu>, as in <em>Qualm</em> 'fume'. While it has been traditionally assumed that this orthographic form corresponds to a sequence of a plosive /k/ followed by a voiced fricative /v/, closer examination of the cluster demonstrates free variation between the consonant sequences of [kv], [kf] and [kʋ]. In each case, the second member of the cluster differs in terms of voicing (voiceless [f] <em>vs.</em> voiced [v ʋ]) or the manner of articulation (fricatives [f v] <em>vs.</em> approximant [ʋ]). Given that the three clusters are allophones of a single phoneme sequence, we tested whether any of the allophones facilitates word recognition, and if so, which one. On the basis of a lexical decision experiment, reaction times as well as correctness rates were analysed in relation to three variables; (a) cluster variants ([kv <em>vs.</em> kf <em>vs.</em> kʋ]), (b) word existence (real <em>vs.</em> nonce), and (c) the quality of the following vowel (front [i e] <em>vs.</em> back [a o]). The results of the study show systematic differences in the perception of real words and nonce words as well as in the perception of the three cluster variants. In particular, we report on the interactions between the factors studied.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429047","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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