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

Stephanie Hackert, Catherine Laliberté, Diana Wengler

{"title":"Past inflection around the world: A cross-variety analysis of New Englishes","authors":"Stephanie Hackert, Catherine Laliberté, Diana Wengler","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103776","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we investigate variable past inflection in four New Englishes. Our data are drawn from the conversational parts of the Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, and Philippine subcomponents of the International Corpus of English. We investigate the entire range of language-internal factors that have been found to influence non-obligatory past marking in varieties of English. This includes morpho-phonological verb class, lexical aspect, grammatical aspect, marker persistence, the presence or absence of a temporal adverbial, and, for consonant-final regular verbs, preceding and following phonological environment. We also consider verb frequency, which has received only scant attention in past inflection research so far. Employing both mixed-effects regression and random forests, we argue that, despite inter-variety differences, there is a core grammar of past inflection, which is constrained by general structural and cognitive phenomena such as grammatical aspect and marker persistence, with frequency also exerting an important and consistent effect. This has implications for debates about universals vs. substrate influence or creole effects in morphosyntactic variation in English.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 103776"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124001050/pdfft?md5=05bacb9e334f58a84a9537da7a9eb773&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124001050-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141596189","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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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":"307 ","pages":"Article 103700"},"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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Romanian double definites: The view from demonstratives 罗马尼亚语的双重定语：从指示词看问题

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-06-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103728

Ion Giurgea

{"title":"Romanian double definites: The view from demonstratives","authors":"Ion Giurgea","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103728","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Double definiteness is always optional in Romanian, and this raises the issue of its semantic contribution. Based on a corpus study, I argue that the semantic import of double definiteness is familiarity, understood as the presence, in the common ground, of a referent characterized as the maximal element satisfying the complex N∧A property (where A is the denotation of the modifier and N the denotation of the NP). The corpus study also shows that the use of double definiteness is register-dependent, occurring more frequently in texts that make us of older forms (poetry, religious texts, fairy tales), where it may be used purely as a stylistic feature or to facilitate a non-restrictive reading. I compare Romanian double definites with recognitional (or evocative) demonstratives (which also involve familiarity) and with the bleached demonstratives licensed by relative clauses, arguing that double definites differ from both. I propose a semantic analysis of demonstratives that is meant to capture the property that recognitional demonstratives share with anaphoric and deictic demonstratives but not with double definites: salience. As for the ‘bleached’ demonstratives licensed by relative clauses, they differ from double definites in that they lack familiarity. Nevertheless, the syntax of double definites resembles that of demonstratives in that it involves an additional functional layer immediately below the definite Determiner.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 103728"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141429046","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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An acceptability study of triadic constructions in Hong Kong Cantonese 香港粤语中三元组结构的可接受性研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-06-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103749

Angel Man-Shan Tong , Albert Lee

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Active and passive syntax of Czech deverbal and deadjectival nouns 捷克语去动词和死形容词名词的主动和被动句法

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-06-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103686

{"title":"Active and passive syntax of Czech deverbal and deadjectival nouns","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Both Czech deverbal and deadjectival nouns are often endowed with valency, but they differ significantly in how they reflect active and passive constructions of their motivating predicates: while deverbal nouns derived from transitive verbs may display both active and passive syntax, deadjectival nouns (even those indirectly motivated by a transitive verb) typically only allow either the active or the passive syntax, not both. This notable difference results from the syntactic behavior of the verbs and adjectives from which the nouns are directly derived, and from the way the nouns reflect the syntactic behavior. Unlike verbal constructions, adjectival syntactic structures are predetermined to arrange arguments of the adjectives by adopting either the active or the passive syntax of their base predicates, not both. Typically, this depends on the derivational type the adjectives represent. Valency structures of nouns directly derived from adjectives adhere to morphosyntactic rules that determine the syntactic representation and forms of the adnominal arguments, which results in preserving either the active or the passive syntax of the base adjective. Following the classification of adjectival derivational types, Czech deadjectival nouns are categorized according to the typical syntax (active or passive) used.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"307 ","pages":"Article 103686"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0024384124000159/pdfft?md5=66bdb93aab1b6661f43e464d7a5cd35d&pid=1-s2.0-S0024384124000159-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141391072","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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Verbal effect on the processing of complement coercion: Distinguishing between aspectual verbs and psych verbs 动词对补语强制处理的影响：区分方面动词和心理动词

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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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