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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103901

Víctor Garre-León

{"title":"Perceptions of impoliteness in Twitter interactions: Evidence from Spanish Heritage speakers","authors":"Víctor Garre-León","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103901","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103901","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates U.S. Spanish Heritage speakers’ perceptions of impoliteness in the Twitter feed of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua. By combining first- and second-order approaches to (im)politeness, I argue that heritage speakers’ perceptions of impoliteness must be studied at the individual level to understand their expectations of how particular behaviors should occur in digital communication settings. I collected 28 reactive tweets representing either on-record or off-record impoliteness strategies. Using a five-point scale survey, 20 participant-evaluators rated the impoliteness of each tweet and provided metapragmatic comments to support their ratings. A mixed-methods analysis of the data revealed commonalities within groups regarding politeness norms (e.g., on-record strategies) and highlighted heritage speakers’ varying levels of tolerance to impoliteness in this medium. This variation revealed participants’ orientations and expectations at the individual level, especially when confronting off-record impoliteness. Focusing on Spanish Heritage speakers, the findings suggest that analyses of perceptions of politeness norms in social media interactions must incorporate both lay understandings and researchers’ conceptualizations to reflect expectations of impoliteness at the individual level, which are likely influenced by community norms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"317 ","pages":"Article 103901"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438000","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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Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own 南非英语中的重复：“什么”的借用有了自己的生命

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103902

Bertus Van Rooy , Roné Wierenga

{"title":"Reduplication in South African Englishes: A what-what borrowing gets a life of its own","authors":"Bertus Van Rooy , Roné Wierenga","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103902","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reduplication is more common in South African English (SAfE) than in many other varieties of English but has not received much attention in research. This article examines the use of the reduplication <em>what-what</em>. The scope of reduplication in English globally is surveyed before considering the use of reduplication in SAfE alongside possible influences of other languages in the local linguistic ecology. Thereafter, a corpus analysis is undertaken of two corpora, representing user comments on television soap operas (2006–2023) and news and comments from the NOW corpus (2010–2023). The results indicate that <em>what-what</em> conveys the meanings of <span>Etcetera</span> (‘there is more like this’), <span>Whatever</span> (a general indicator of something vague that is not spelled out), and a <span>Specific thing</span> or <span>quality</span> (which is deliberately not named). While many reduplication forms can be linked to antecedents in other South African languages, the results show that <em>what-what</em> has acquired new meanings since coming into use in SAfE, which creatively extend the potential of the construction beyond mere transfer from other languages. Reduplication is not only an entrenched grammatical construction for coining new words in SAfE, but it has also become a way to express local identity for users of SAfE.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"317 ","pages":"Article 103902"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429050","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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Spatial language production in Chinese preschoolers: Developmental patterns and associated predictors 中国学龄前儿童空间语言产生：发展模式及相关预测因素

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103899

Dandan Wu , Hui Li , Sheila Degotardi

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Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting 理解触觉挪威手语翻译中的描述

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103887

Giorgia Zorzi , Gro Hege Saltnes Urdal , Eli Raanes

{"title":"Understanding depiction in tactile Norwegian sign language interpreting","authors":"Giorgia Zorzi , Gro Hege Saltnes Urdal , Eli Raanes","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103887","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103887","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Interpreting settings involving tactile signed languages (TSLs) require the conveyance of information from visual and auditory channels into the tactile modality. A TSL is defined as a tactile adaptation of a visual signed language (SL), primarily used by deaf signers who experience vision loss later in life. In these adaptations, some signs are produced on the body of both interlocutors, creating a larger signing space that is more easily accessible through the tactile modality. We refer to TSL signs produced on the body of the interlocutor as “TSL haptices”. Moreover, one distinctive feature of visual SLs is depiction, where signs visually represent meaning by “demonstrating” a referent or event. Depiction also exists in TSLs, though its use has received limited study, particularly in the context of interpretation. As a result, this paper aims to: i) investigate how interpreters mediate depicting structures in interpreting settings involving Tactile Norwegian Sign Language (TNTS), ii) describe how depiction is expressed on the bodies of interpreters and deafblind individuals, and iii) provide a model that defines the various types of “haptices” found in TNTS interpreting.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103887"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096738","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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Non-canonical patterns of definiteness agreement in Hebrew 希伯来语中非正典的一致性模式

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884

Ruth Stern

{"title":"Non-canonical patterns of definiteness agreement in Hebrew","authors":"Ruth Stern","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103884","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines a non-canonical construction in Hebrew: a definite NP consisting of a head noun and an attributive adjective, where the head is not marked with a definite article but the adjective is. This construction deviates from the standard rules of Hebrew grammar, which require agreement in definiteness marking between the noun and its adjective. The analysis is based on a corpus of twelve Hebrew works from the Interim Period and addresses the construction in both Classical Hebrew and the Hebrew of the late Interim Period. The findings reveal that the transition from the former period, when Hebrew was a spoken language, to the latter, when it became predominantly a written language, influenced the distribution and underlying factors of this construction. Furthermore, the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, two distinct periods within the Interim Period, significantly impacted the Hebrew language, fostering linguistic development and change, even before Hebrew regained its status as a spoken language. The study demonstrates how a single linguistic phenomenon can arise from diverse factors, reflecting the historical and cultural transformations that shaped Hebrew and its speakers over the centuries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103884"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096737","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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L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change 接触驱动句法变化中的母语迁移和输入需求

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896

Devyani Sharma

{"title":"L1 transfer and input demand in contact-driven syntactic change","authors":"Devyani Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103896","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies of New Englishes often examine contact-based change by comparing the two language systems involved, to see if feature <em>x</em> from the substrate language appears in the contact variety. In this article I show that this approach is incomplete. Looking across a bilingual cline of Indian English speakers, I show that only some substrate features have stabilized across the whole population, and that a different subset of the same features has stabilized in Singapore English. L1 transfer alone cannot account for this difference; it over-predicts change. I focus on a different hallmark of postcolonial Englishes—diminishing input from the original colonial English variety—and show the need for a further factor, input demand<em>:</em> the amount of input needed to acquire an L2 syntactic form given a specific L1. The relative strength of the two factors is then assessed in a four-way typology of syntactic changes. Both are instrumental in long-term stable outcomes, but substrate type appears to sometimes place hard limits on aspects of learnability regardless of input. The study demonstrates the importance of key constructs in Second Language Acquisition theory for the study of long-term contact-driven language change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"316 ","pages":"Article 103896"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143141057","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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Four types of passives in Japanese and their cross-linguistic implications 日语中的四种被动语态及其跨语言含义

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Lingua Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873

Hidehito Hoshi

{"title":"Four types of passives in Japanese and their cross-linguistic implications","authors":"Hidehito Hoshi","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103873","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines how the variety of so-called “passive constructions” can be viewed in terms of subject demotion and object promotion. I propose that four types of passives may logically exist due to possible combinations of the two independent operations: (i) both subject demotion and object promotion occur; (ii) only subject demotion occurs; (iii) only object promotion occurs; and (iv) neither subject demotion nor object promotion occurs but passive morphology is involved, demonstrating that they are all attested in Japanese. I argue that free Merge allows the Japanese passive morpheme (<em>r</em>)<em>are</em> to be externally merged with main V, little v, or [V-v] that is also created by External Merge, yielding V-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, v-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, and [V-v]-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, respectively, with the result that the external θ-role is absorbed in V-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, accusative Case is absorbed in v-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>, and both of them are absorbed in [V-v]-(<em>r</em>)<em>are</em>. I also show that (<em>r</em>)<em>are</em> can occur as a main verb, inducing neither subject demotion nor object promotion, but the passive sense may be expressed via assignment of an affectee θ-role to the surface subject. The analysis proposed here opens up new possibilities for unifying ways of generating the so-called non-canonical passives observed in various languages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"315 ","pages":"Article 103873"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143156144","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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Linguistic factors that condition the velarization of word final /n/ in Puerto Rican Spanish 影响波多黎各西班牙语词尾/n/化的语言因素

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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 框架-语义一致食品标签对非英语母语者味觉的影响

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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 利用人工智能来管理人际关系：ERNIE Bot的人际策略来回应酒店的负面评论

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

Dongheng Yang , Ping Liu

{"title":"Utilizing AI to manage rapport: ERNIE Bot’s interpersonal strategies to respond to negative hotel reviews","authors":"Dongheng Yang , Ping Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103874","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103874","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Large language models have exhibited satisfactory performance in linguistic tasks pertaining to lexicon, grammar, and syntax. However, their pragmatic competence in user interactions remains underexplored. To address this research gap, the current study delves into the interpersonal dimension of pragmatic competence, specifically focusing on ERNIE Bot’s potential to manage rapport with reviewers in response to negative hotel reviews on TripAdvisor. A comparative approach is employed to analyze the rapport-managing moves in responses generated by ERNIE Bot versus those authored by human hotel managers. Our findings indicate that ERNIE Bot frequently employs rapport-enhancing moves to foster relationships. Specifically, we identify three key interpersonal strategies used by ERNIE Bot: specifying concerns, supporting emotions, and undertaking responsibility. The results suggest that ERNIE Bot demonstrates its pragmatic competence to promote positive rapport with reviewers. However, further training is necessary to align its responses more closely with hotels’ transactional objectives. Overall, this study provides insights into large language models’ linguistic potential in interpersonal contexts and offers practical recommendations for professionals considering the integration of AI-generated content into their operations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"315 ","pages":"Article 103874"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143101134","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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