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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103804

Xin Wang, Ping Zhang

{"title":"‘Did I repeat so many English words?’: Stability of L1 and L2 word association responses over time and across response positions","authors":"Xin Wang, Ping Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103804","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103804","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present study investigates first language (L1) and second language (L2) associative stability (AS), operationalized as the repetition rate of response words over two sessions of the same word association test. Specifically, we compare the overall patterns of L1 and L2 AS, examine between-language AS correlations within individual learners, and explore the position effect of response words on AS. A total of 40 Chinese English learners completed two sessions of continuous word association tests over two weeks, in which they were required to produce three responses to each of the 30 cue words. The results revealed (1) a significantly higher repetition rate for L2 than for L1 word association responses; (2) a significant effect of response position on repetition rate, which declined from the first to the third position in both languages; and (3) a strong correlation between L1 and L2 response repetition for individual participants. These findings provide evidence for intra-individual consistency in L1 and L2 word association behavior and highlight the discrepancies between L1 and L2 lexical organization, which are probably due to weaknesses in the organization of the L2 semantic network. Implications for vocabulary teaching and future research are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"310 ","pages":"Article 103804"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142083197","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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Towards a responsibility-based model of the move system in discourse semantics: Reasoning from above 在话语语义学中建立基于责任的移动系统模型：自上而下的推理

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103796

Dongbing Zhang

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Knowledge structures for knowledge communication: Dominant semantic frames in research articles 知识交流的知识结构：研究文章中的主要语义框架

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103795

Lang Chen , Csilla Weninger

{"title":"Knowledge structures for knowledge communication: Dominant semantic frames in research articles","authors":"Lang Chen , Csilla Weninger","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103795","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103795","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Taking Frame Semantics as its theoretical framework, this corpus-based study addresses a lack of research on semantic knowledge in research articles at the genre level, as opposed to the discipline level, by identifying the dominant Semantic Frames in the academic portion of the Corpus of Contemporary American English. Semantic Frames in the corpus were first automatically identified with a pre-trained large language model fine-tuned with data from FrameNet, a large database built on the principles of Frame Semantics. Subsequently, 84 dominant Semantic Frames in research articles were extracted based on the frequency distributions of identified semantic frames, constituting a Research Article-specific Semantic Frame List. Based on their definitions and detailed analyses of typical example sentences, these 84 Research Article-specific Semantic Frames were classified into three groups: Academic Activity Frames, which describe typical activities for creating knowledge, Academic Communication Frames, which relate to typical ways for disseminating knowledge, and Academic Interest Frames, which include typical entities or attributes that interest researchers across disciplines. The Research Article-specific Semantic Frame List sheds light on the semantic knowledge that is characteristic of the research article genre and shared across disciplines, thereby paving the way for compiling a research article-specific framenet. Further research is encouraged to explore the Frame Element distribution patterns of Research Article-specific Semantic Frames and Semantic Frames specific to other academic genres.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"309 ","pages":"Article 103795"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142013054","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 study of phrasal and clausal temporal adjuncts at the left and right peripheries across genres of written English discourse 基于语料库的英语书面语篇体裁左右边缘短语和分句时间状语研究

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103794

Matthias Klumm

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Different registers, different grammars in second language production? The dative alternation in spoken and written Chinese learner English 第二语言生产中的不同语域、不同语法？汉语学习者英语口语和书面语中的助动词交替

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103790

Qiao Gan

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Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews 德语和英语中的构词法和非人格化：比较在线酒店评论中的人称代词

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773

Bridgit Fastrich

{"title":"Construal and impersonalization in German and English: Comparing impersonal pronouns in online hotel reviews","authors":"Bridgit Fastrich","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103773","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The current work explores the concept of construal in German and English, focusing specifically on the communicative feature of (im)personalization. Incorporating insights from cognitive linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, it takes as object of analysis a means of <em>im</em>personalization, namely the use of human impersonal pronouns (HIPs) and, using a form-to-function approach, analyzes the dedicated HIPs <em>man</em> and <em>one</em>, as well as impersonally used 2nd personal pronouns <em>du</em> and <em>you</em> regarding their featural composition and pragmatic effects. The data consists of two parallel corpora of negative online hotel reviews taken from <span><span>Booking.com</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>. The findings reveal that German-speaking reviewers make use of HIPs more frequently and use the ‘less personal’ of the HIPs (<em>man</em>) as compared to English-speaking reviewers (who use the ‘more personal’ <em>you</em>), confirming the established contrast of German speakers using more impersonalized language. They further uncover a flexibility in the distribution and usage of German <em>man</em> that is not yet widely established in the literature, showing that German speakers use <em>man</em> in a myriad of ways to simultaneously impersonalize certain aspects of their reviews and indicate relevance to the reader. The findings point to a mixture of typological and linguacultural influences at play regarding the HIPs’ role in impersonalization in German and English negative online hotel reviews.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103773"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951961","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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From engrams to schemas 从刻痕到图式

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

Konrad Szcześniak , Václav Řeřicha

{"title":"From engrams to schemas","authors":"Konrad Szcześniak , Václav Řeřicha","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103788","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the principal concepts instrumental in cognitive linguistic research is that of schemas, defined as general, partly abstract mental outlines shared by the memories of specific concepts and experiences. They are mental frameworks guiding the way we perceive and remember information, and they play a major role in language learning and processing. While the concept of schemas has been addressed by many authors, who have described their nature and functioning, our understanding of schematic knowledge is still relatively speculative. For example, to account for how schemas emerge, “lossy compression” is postulated, which means that abstraction is achieved through forgetting. Such conjectures can be tested against some recent insights from memory research on engrams, defined roughly as networks of neurons activated in the processing of specific pieces of information. This overview paper presents findings from engram research suggesting that abstract schemas form in ways other than simple forgetting or erasure of information from memory. Instead, abstraction is achieved by accumulating different representation strengths for memory traces underlying frequent and infrequent (incidental) information.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103788"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141951962","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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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

{"title":"From nominal phrase ‘my word’ to agreement marker ‘Right(!)’: A pragmatic and prosodic analysis of Korean discourse marker nay mali","authors":"Mikyung Ahn , Foong Ha Yap , Koonhyuk Byun","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103774","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103774","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Discourse markers are known to be derived from various sources, among the frequently cited being adverbials and prepositional phrases (e.g., English <em>well</em> and <em>in fact</em>). In this paper, we examine how Korean discourse marker <em>nay mali</em> ‘right’ develops from a nominal phrase. Using spoken data from the NIKL and <em>Sejong</em> corpora, and adopting a Discourse Grammar framework, we trace the development of <em>nay mali</em> as it transitions from a noun phrase meaning ‘my word’ to a solidarity-enhancing agreement marker via two major processes—ellipsis and cooptation. Ellipsis occurs when the predicate <em>ku maliya</em> is deleted from the sentence <em>nay mali ku maliya</em> (‘my word is the word’ > ‘that’s what I am saying’), giving rise to the agreement and affiliative use of <em>nay mali</em> ‘right’. Cooptation occurs as discourse and contextual cues are pragmatically incorporated into the semantics of <em>nay mali</em>, extending its range of function beyond the sentence grammar level into the discourse grammar level (i.e., the metatextual level). In this study, we further use spectograms from Praat analyses to provide evidence of the detachment of discourse marker <em>nay mali</em> from the sentence level, as well as to reveal prosodic distinctions between the different contexts-of-use of discourse marker <em>nay mali</em> as a solidarity-enhancing agreement marker in Korean natural conversations. Findings from this study point to an intimate interplay between prosody and pragmatics, and may contribute to prosodic studies of discourse markers in other languages as well.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"308 ","pages":"Article 103774"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141949524","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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