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

Qiu-Jun Zhang

{"title":"Revisiting the connection between progressive aspect and motion event cognition: Evidence from L1 Mandarin Chinese and L2 Swedish","authors":"Qiu-Jun Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates whether grammatical aspect influences the extent to which speakers attend to the endpoint (Goal) of motion events. Taking a typological perspective, the study examines the use of progressive markers in Mandarin Chinese through a progressive questionnaire. After identifying Mandarin’s aspectual features, the study re-examines the relationship between progressive aspect and endpoint preferences by analyzing motion event descriptions made by native Mandarin speakers and comparing their performance with L1 Mandarin learners of L2 Swedish in a memory-based triad-matching task. The results of these comparisons reveal that Mandarin speakers mentioned the endpoint of an event as frequently as [+aspect] English speakers but significantly less frequently than [-aspect] Swedish and Afrikaans speakers, thereby indicating an ‘endpoint preference’ for Swedish and Afrikaans speakers. In a non-linguistic similarity judgment task, no significant differences were observed between the L1 and L2 groups in their frequency of pairing the target clip with the endpoint-highlighted alternative clip. However, a positive correlation between the participants’ length of stay in Sweden and endpoint preferences was identified, implying a cognitive shift from ‘progress salience’ in [+aspect] L1 to ‘endpoint salience’ in [-aspect] L2. This suggests that immersion in an L2 context influences language acquisition and cognitive restructuring.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"311 ","pages":"Article 103827"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142423094","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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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":"311 ","pages":"Article 103826"},"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

{"title":"The effect of visual displays on the mastery of the forms and functions of English intonation by Chinese L2 students","authors":"Na Zhi , Aijun Li , Chenyang Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103825","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103825","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the effectiveness of visual displays in improving the mastery of the forms and functions of English intonation among Chinese L2 students. Over a four-week period, two groups of learners (visual-training and auditory-training) took part in five sessions of intonation training, while a control group received no training. Each session began with a 25-minute lesson on the forms and functions of intonation, followed by a 40-minute practice session. All sentences were presented in communicative contexts. With the aid of speech visualization technology, the visual-training group was taught linguistic categories and English intonation structures, and was encouraged to imitate and practice intonation patterns using visual displays of the intonation of each sentence. The auditory-training group learned and practiced intonation by carefully listening to audio clips of each sentence. Intonation production was assessed using speech data from pre- and post-tests. Results showed that the visual-training group outperformed the other two groups, making the greatest progress in mastering the forms of English intonation (pitch accents and boundary tones) and its functions (expressing prominence and marking modality).</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"311 ","pages":"Article 103825"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142271616","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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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

{"title":"Potential objects and transitivity variations: A comparable corpus-driven study of Mandarin Chinese Verb-Object compounds","authors":"Menghan Jiang , Chu-Ren Huang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103814","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103814","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study proposes a new approach to the transitivity variation of the Mandarin Verb-Object (VO) compound by focusing on the role of the potential objects instead of the incorporated object. This new approach highlights the interactions between language change and variation. Previous approaches to the transitivity variation of VO compounds, especially Mandarin Chinese VO compounds, have typically focused on the purported blocking effect of the incorporated object (O). Recent corpus-driven studies, however, have attested that Mandarin VO compounds can take objects. This study compared clausal contexts in two Chinese varieties when VO compounds take direct objects and showed that the same noun phrase tends to require a context of higher transitivity to function as a direct object in the Mainland variety, complementing the previously established tendencies that Taiwan Verb-Object compounds have higher object-taking abilities. Both changes and variations can be interpreted as lexical constructionalization, supplemented with insights from noun incorporation and lexical diffusion. Argument advancement after compound formation represents lexical constructionalization, motivated by a tendency to encode transitivity with less compositionality. The contrasting contextual and lexical transitivity trends in the two varieties support the shifting encoding of transitivity generalization, illustrating different stages of lexical constructionalization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"311 ","pages":"Article 103814"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142243674","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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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":"311 ","pages":"Article 103791"},"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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Variations in answering negative polar questions in Korean: An experimental study 韩语中回答否定极性问题的变化：实验研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103792

Jong-Bok Kim , Jungsoo Kim , Yunju Nam

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The repetition of passives in Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder and Autistic children with language impairment 有语言发育障碍的普通话儿童和有语言障碍的自闭症儿童重复被动语的情况

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103793

Jiao Du , Stephanie Durrleman , Xiaowei He , Haopeng Yu

{"title":"The repetition of passives in Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder and Autistic children with language impairment","authors":"Jiao Du , Stephanie Durrleman , Xiaowei He , Haopeng Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103793","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103793","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the language profiles of Mandarin-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and those with Autistic Language Impairment (ALI) through their repetition of passive sentences. It examines both long and short passives, predicting worse performance for the former structures than the latter. 15 children with DLD (aged 4;0–6;3), 18 children with ALI (aged 4;7–6;0), and 22 typically developing age-matched (TDA) children (aged 4;4–5;11) repeated 10 long and 10 short passives, the latter including manner adverbs to match the long passives’ length. Unexpectedly, no clear advantage for short over long passives emerged across groups. Both children with DLD and those with ALI performed less well than their TDA peers, with children with ALI slightly outperforming those with DLD. Both groups employed non-target and simpler responses to mitigate syntactic complexity, with notable differences in strategy between children with DLD and those with ALI. The study reveals syntactic difficulties in children with DLD and ALI, with more pronounced impairment in DLD. The Edge Feature Underspecification Hypothesis may account for these challenges, suggesting that the underspecified EF [+Topic] leads to alternative strategies. Additionally, the difficulty with manner adverbs might contribute to challenges with short passives, and children with ALI showed more pragmatic errors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"310 ","pages":"Article 103793"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142122362","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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Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels 希腊-塞浦路斯学习者对第二语言英语元音的感知和发音

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103805

Dimitra Dimitriou

{"title":"Greek-Cypriot learners’ perception and production of L2 English vowels","authors":"Dimitra Dimitriou","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103805","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103805","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Acquiring L2 segments is particularly challenging for L2 learners, especially when the L1 and L2 inventories involve different contrasts and acoustic cues. The present research investigated the perception and production of L2 English vowels by adult Greek-Cypriot learners and examined the effects of orthographic cues and consonantal context in their performance. Perceptual performance was assessed through a forced-choice identification task and production performance through a wordlist-reading and an elicitation task, both analyzed acoustically and through intelligibility ratings. The findings showed the influence of the L1 on both the perception and production of L2 segments, supporting the assumptions of current models of speech perception and production. Learners faced challenges in perceiving the members of L2 contrasts and mostly used their L1 articulatory routines in their productions of L2 vowels. Orthographic cues or consonantal context did not significantly affect learners’ productions or overall perception, although strong contextual effects were observed in individual target vowels. This study is the first to provide an in-depth comparison of CYG and English vowels as well as an examination of the acquisition of L2 English vowels by this population, which can guide EFL teachers and course developers in developing appropriate EFL curricula that incorporate pronunciation instruction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"310 ","pages":"Article 103805"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124001360/pdfft?md5=9c15181bfca9087086d759524c9d4c38&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124001360-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142097585","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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The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units 以响应式单位表示的中文 "状态 "变化符号 o

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103779

Hongyuan Liu , Mi Tian , Shuangyun Yao

{"title":"The Chinese change-of-state token o in responsive units","authors":"Hongyuan Liu , Mi Tian , Shuangyun Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103779","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103779","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Adopting the methodology of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, this study investigates the uses of the response token <em>o</em> in Mandarin Chinese face-to-face conversation. The analysis of naturally occurring interactions shows that <em>o</em> features centrally in the practices by which speakers display a change in cognitive states, either from previously being uninformed to now being informed, or from non-understanding to understanding regarding relevant information that was just mentioned by a co-participant. It is also revealed that there is an interrelatedness between the sequential environment/turn shape of <em>o</em> and the epistemic claim that it conveys. That is, the <em>o</em> marking now-knowing typically occurs in response to informings (especially extended tellings) and it primarily plays a continuative forward-looking sequential role in freestanding form, which makes it distinct from the English <em>oh</em>. Furthermore, other turn-initial uses of <em>o</em> are routinely followed by components of repetition or assessment which are sequence-curtailing in character. Different from the <em>o</em> marking now-knowing, the <em>o</em> marking revised understanding is exclusively found in third position following the speaker’s first-position claim or question, and where that claim or question contains an incorrect assumption which has either been corrected or disconfirmed in second position.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"310 ","pages":"Article 103779"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142088905","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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