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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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Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103875

Tamara Marie Johnson

{"title":"Effects of frame-semantically (in)congruent food labels on taste in non-native English speakers","authors":"Tamara Marie Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103875","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103875","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many studies have examined the non-native processing of formulaic versus non-formulaic language; however, this is the first study to investigate a related phenomenon: the non-native processing of frame-semantically congruent versus incongruent combinations of near-synonymic food labels and foods. Specifically, 254 European consumers participated in taste tests of store-bought potato chips and apples presented as novel products with fictitious, frame-semantically (in)congruent brand names containing the near-synonyms <em>crispy</em> and <em>crunchy</em>. Linear regression analyses revealed that the valence of consumers’ thoughts about foods remained unaffected by frame-semantic (in)congruence. In contrast, perceived taste was mediated by English dominance, producing a positive correlation in the frame-semantically congruent condition and a negative correlation in the frame-semantically incongruent condition. These results contrast with previous research on native speakers of English, suggesting that awareness of the distinct semantic frames of near-synonyms develops with increasing English dominance. Furthermore, they have real-world implications because English is often used to advertise food products, regardless of the dominant language(s) in a particular market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"315 ","pages":"Article 103875"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101135","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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Utilizing AI to manage rapport: ERNIE Bot’s interpersonal strategies to respond to negative hotel reviews

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103874

Dongheng Yang , Ping Liu

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Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103888

Haotong Zhao, Zhaohong Wu

{"title":"Dashing is faster than lumbering by sound: Speed sound symbolism in English motion verbs","authors":"Haotong Zhao, Zhaohong Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103888","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103888","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Psychological experiments have established sound symbolic associations between fast/slow speed and various phonemes or phonetic features in our perception. These associations were also occasionally attested cross-linguistically in words for “fast” and “slow”. This study aims to determine whether speed sound symbolism resides extensively in English motion verbs (e.g., <em>dash</em>, <em>lumber</em>), words presumed to be more likely to exhibit speed sound symbolism. A rating questionnaire was used to obtain each verb’s implied speed. An extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) model revealed that phoneme frequency alone can account for 14.36% of semantic variation along the speed dimension, which is a modest but genuine effect. Phonemes /m/, /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/ and /ɑ/ emerged as important predictors of speed ratings, with /m/ and /ɑ/ associated with slowness while /ʃ/ and /t͡ʃ/ with fastness. Our findings provided further evidence for the existence of sound symbolism in natural languages. Moreover, the sound-and-meaning matching patterns in English generally agree with patterns identified by previous behavioral tasks, suggesting that the way our language is constructed is affected by, or at least coincides with, speakers’ perception of speech sounds. The possible mechanisms underlying speed sound symbolism and its implications on language evolution and the concept of phonestheme are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103888"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143097280","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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How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103868

Hayeun Jang

{"title":"How labial and alveolar consonants evoke the images of softness and cuteness?: Experiments with Korean speakers","authors":"Hayeun Jang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103868","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103868","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this study is to report on an experiment that examined how labial and alveolar consonants evoke images of softness and cuteness depending on their laryngeal features in Korean, and to discuss cross-linguistic similarities and differences in sound-symbolic associations. The main findings of the study were: 1) compared to alveolar consonants, labial consonants were more associated with images of softness and cuteness in Korean, as well as in Japanese and Chinese; 2) among both labial and alveolar consonants, lenis consonants were the most strongly associated with images of softness; 3) aspirated and tensed bilabial consonants evoked images of cuteness; and 4) among alveolar consonants, tensed alveolars are the most likely to evoke images of cuteness, while aspirated alveolars are the least likely to do so. The results suggest that 1) sound-symbolic associations of soft images are not always linked to those of cute images; and 2) the strength of sound-symbolic associations of consonants with the same place of articulation can differ depending on their laryngeal features. This study highlights the role of laryngeal features in sound symbolism and emphasizes the importance of cross-linguistic research in understanding both universal and language-specific aspects of sound symbolism.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"314 ","pages":"Article 103868"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180582","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 conceptual building blocks of kinship terminologies

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103841

Cliff Goddard

{"title":"The conceptual building blocks of kinship terminologies","authors":"Cliff Goddard","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103841","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103841","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Kinship terminology was once a major focus of structural linguistics, yet the arcane symbols and notations of structural linguistics cannot plausibly represent the cognitive realities of speakers, and therefore hold little appeal for today’s cognitive linguists. This study seeks to put kinship semantics back on the cognitive linguistics agenda. It demonstrates that the emic-conceptual meanings of kinship terms can be successfully modelled using ordinary language words which make sense to the people concerned; and, furthermore, that this approach supports systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The study represents a re-boot of Wierzbicka’s “ordinary-language model” of kinship terminologies, retaining birth and conception as prototypes while shifting the model into the realm of the social. Revised explications of ‘mother’ and ‘father’ take account of adoption and similar practices. Original explications are proposed for ‘wife’ and ‘husband’. While acknowledging cultural elaborations, it is argued that these four concepts (‘mother’, ‘father’, ‘husband’, ‘wife’) may be substantially shared among the world’s linguacultures. With these basic conceptual building blocks in hand, it is demonstrated, using examples from English, Chinese, and Pitjantjatjara, that diverse language-specific kinship concepts can be built up in a systematic fashion. The study overviews a distinctive cognitive linguistic approach to the conceptual semantics of kin terms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"313 ","pages":"Article 103841"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092929","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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Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103852

Tory Sampson , Rachel I. Mayberry

{"title":"Nonverbal predication and SELF-assertive truth-conditionality in American Sign Language","authors":"Tory Sampson , Rachel I. Mayberry","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103852","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103852","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our understanding of nonverbal predication wherein canonically non-verbal phrases such as nouns and adjectives are predicated in American Sign Language (ASL) is fragmentary. ASL has been reported to make extensive use of the null copula in nominal predication, but this claim was countered by recent evidence of an overt copula in the form of the sign SELF. There is also scant description and evidence regarding the structure of adjectival predication in ASL. Thus, we undertake two Likert-scale experiments investigating the relationship between several signs serving as potential copulas (SELF, IX, and null) and a variety of non-verbal predicates including nouns and adjectives in ASL. We find that SELF appears to be the primary means of expressing nominal predication as a copula in contrast to IX and null. As for adjectival predication, there is a preference to use the copular SELF with adjectives exhibiting more permanent properties such as DEAF and TALL. Paired with the finding that all adjectives in ASL appear to be predicative, we propose that the copular SELF carries an additional semantic contribution of grammatical modality. Signers appear to use it to assert truth and certainty, which is a novel finding in sign languages. We conclude that this grammaticalization process in sign languages parallels the account that lexical information historically expressed using non-manual markers eventually takes on a manual form.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"314 ","pages":"Article 103852"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180585","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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Prescriptivism, editing, and morphosyntactic variation in written South African Englishes: A case study of relative who, that and which

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103855

Haidee Kotze , Melanie Ann Law Favo

{"title":"Prescriptivism, editing, and morphosyntactic variation in written South African Englishes: A case study of relative who, that and which","authors":"Haidee Kotze , Melanie Ann Law Favo","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103855","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In variationist research there is little reflection on the multiple agents involved in written textual production, whose distinct linguistic and normative representations influence the linguistic composition of a text. In this study, we ask where the uniformity and prescription-oriented nature of published written language originate – directly from writers, or from those responsible for editorial intervention. Focusing on the alternation between <em>who</em>, <em>that</em> and <em>which</em> in subject restrictive relative clauses with animate antecedents, we analyse patterns of variation in unedited written texts and their edited counterparts, across three subvarieties of South African English. We find that, generally, in the unedited writing of the subvarieties the distribution of relativisers patterns similarly to other varieties of English, reflecting the stability of the English relativisation system. However, in line with previous findings on New Englishes, there are lower-level divergences in the subvarieties investigated – and, in general, higher proportional frequencies of <em>that</em> and <em>which</em> with animate antecedents in restrictive relative clauses in subject position than is generally the case in previous studies that have focused on written language. Where a variety tends towards less prototypical usage, editorial interventions at times mask this by amending usage towards more prototypical usage. However, the patterns of intervention are not always consistent. The linguistic background of the editor in relation to that of the author (i.e. whether they are users of the same subvariety of South African English or not) appears to be one of the factors conditioning editorial intervention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"314 ","pages":"Article 103855"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180586","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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Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103872

Hui Kang , Yaxin Zhang

{"title":"Socio-cognitive influences on translating forward causal connectives: A multivariate analysis of English translations of Tao Te Ching","authors":"Hui Kang , Yaxin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103872","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103872","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building on previous research that has primarily focused on explicitation and implicitation in the translation of causal connectives, this study investigated the socio-cognitive imprints that influence the translation of these seemingly neutral function words. We examined the translated expressions of forward causal connectives, which signify both objective (motivator-result) and subjective (support-proposition) inter-clausal relationships, in nine English translations of the ancient Chinese classic <em>Tao Te Ching</em>. Using multivariate analyses, including cluster analysis, factor analysis, and correspondence analysis, we found that translators’ decisions might be influenced by their reasoning traditions (inductive vs. deductive) and the inherent properties of their native languages. Moreover, personal experiences affect these translations within a broader sociocultural context. Viewed through the lens of function word translation, our findings support and extend the principles of Social Cognitive Theory, highlighting the pervasive impact of sociocultural dynamics on translation practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"314 ","pages":"Article 103872"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180581","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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Explicitness of referring expressions in heritage speakers’ majority English

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103854

Tatiana Pashkova, Shanley E.M. Allen

{"title":"Explicitness of referring expressions in heritage speakers’ majority English","authors":"Tatiana Pashkova, Shanley E.M. Allen","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103854","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Several studies on heritage speakers’ (HSs) majority language (ML) have indicated that HSs might be more explicit than monolingually-raised speakers (MSs) of this language. A reason for this might be HSs’ frequent communication with L2 speakers of the ML (e.g., HSs’ parents), which is an under-explored source of influence on the ML. However, explicitness in the ML has not been systematically addressed yet, and studies pointing to HSs’ higher explicitness are scarce.</div><div>Filling this gap, we conducted two studies analyzing referring expressions produced by German, Greek, Russian, and Turkish HSs in majority English as well as English MSs in formal and informal narratives. Results indicated that Russian and Turkish HSs were more explicit in informal narratives: they used more noun-headed NPs than English MSs (Study 1). This aligns with the reasoning that HSs’ explicitness stems from frequent communication with L2 speakers since HSs and L2 speakers usually interact in informal settings. However, we found no evidence of HSs’ higher explicitness in the use of pronouns and null anaphora (Study 1) or modified referring expressions (Study 2). Overall, our findings confirm HSs’ higher explicitness in some ML areas compared to MSs, although the effect appears limited to certain phenomena and speaker groups.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"314 ","pages":"Article 103854"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180584","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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