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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-02-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103694

Christian Michel, Guido Löhr

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Variation in formant dynamics of L1 and L2 Spanish vowels 第一语言和第二语言西班牙语元音的形声动态变化

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103685

Sofía Romanelli , Camilo Vélez-Agudelo

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Referential choice in the narrative discourse of people with aphasia 失语症患者叙述话语中的参照选择

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103676

Sara Košutar , Marija Jozipović , Gordana Hržica

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Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners 多语言思维中的复杂互动：评估金属语言能力及其对三语学习者解码新语言系统的影响

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103678

Birgit Spechtenhauser , Ulrike Jessner

{"title":"Complex interactions in the multilingual mind: Assessing metalinguistic abilities and their effects on decoding a new language system in trilingual learners","authors":"Birgit Spechtenhauser , Ulrike Jessner","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103678","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Originally, scholarly discussions of metalinguistic awareness (MeLA), as a distinct concept, primarily focused on monolinguals. However, increasing scientific attention has more recently been paid to multiple language learning, which poses new challenges in this area of linguistic-cognitive research. This article first discusses a holistic and dynamic view of multilingual development and portrays MeLA as an emergent property of multilingual systems that varies in quality for multilinguals. Thereafter, a longitudinal study investigates the development of MeLA in three languages among adolescent learners in South Tyrol. For this purpose, a metalinguistic awareness test battery was specifically tailored to the trilingual situation. Subsequently, the effects of MeLA on decoding a new language system unknown to the learners were explored. The results from Part I of the study show that most learners developed MeLA skills that improved to varying degrees within the testing period. In addition, significant positive correlations were found between the MeLA test results for most participants. Analysing Part II of the study showed that, on average, participants with higher MeLA test scores could more frequently activate their prior linguistic knowledge, and they exhibited higher levels of awareness when decoding the new language system than did participants with lower MeLA scores. These findings show the interconnectedness of metacognitive skills and confirm the catalytic role of MeLA in multilingual systems, which calls for more cross-curricular multilingual teaching approaches that promote MeLA, particularly in multilingual regions such as South Tyrol.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"301 ","pages":"Article 103678"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002438412400007X/pdfft?md5=b81191e5166bf608044e73dfe550df2f&pid=1-s2.0-S002438412400007X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139675756","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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Syntactic functions of words grammatically related to verbs in interlanguage: A valency perspective 语际语言中与动词语法相关的词的句法功能：价位视角

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103675

Qianying Zhao , Jingyang Jiang

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Three-layered hierarchical structure of Mandarin Chinese aspectual projections 普通话方面投射的三层分层结构

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103677

Miaocai Yan , Ye Yuan

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Towards a description of palm-up in bidirectional signed language interpreting 描述双向手语翻译中的掌上翻译

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103646

Sílvia Gabarró-López

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Developing local grammars of speech acts in Italian: The case of apology 开发意大利语言语行为的地方语法：道歉案例

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103672

Danni Yu , Hang Su , Marina Bondi

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Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English 印度英语不同讲座中语言接触的微观社会语言学结果

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103658

Julia Davydova

{"title":"Micro-sociolinguistic outcomes of language contact in different lects of Indian English","authors":"Julia Davydova","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103658","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores language contact phenomena (substrate und superstrate influence, universal learning strategies) in the speech of English-dominant, Hindi-dominant and bilingual speakers of Indian English. In so doing, it describes the nature and extent of linguistic variation that spans a broad sociolinguistic spectrum. The empirical basis of the study targets two domains of language: morpho-syntax (the English present perfect) and discourse pragmatics (quotative marking). The stratification of the informants into English-dominant, Hindi-dominant and bilingual is diagnostic of the sociolinguistic settings in which varieties in contact have been acquired (predominantly English, predominantly Hindi or mixed). The results indicate that superstratal influence is most noticeable in the speech of English-dominant individuals. In contrast, Hindi-dominant and bilingual speakers demonstrate substrate-induced features in their speech. The universal learning strategies of simplification are limited to the linguistic repertoires of the individuals with predominantly Hindi background. Crucially, bilingual speakers appear to engage in the construction of creative coinages and lead an incipient language change in the domain of quotative marking. Against this backdrop, the study shows that bilingualism is a primary sociocognitive condition underpinning speakers’ linguistic creativity and its major prerequisite. The study also pinpoints the importance of sociolinguistic differentiation through meticulous ethnographic fieldwork in the study of linguistic variation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":"299 ","pages":"Article 103658"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139100639","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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Syllable structure and syllabification in Maaloula Aramaic 马鲁拉阿拉姆语的音节结构和音节化

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Lingua Pub Date : 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103612

Ghattas Eid, Ingo Plag

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