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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103609

Mikyung Ahn , Foong Ha Yap

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Psych verbs in Japanese: Inchoativity and boundary types 日语心理动词的起源与边界类型

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103640

Ayumi Shimoyoshi

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Understanding spelling conflicts in Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian: Insights from speakers’ attitudes and beliefs 了解波斯尼亚语、克罗地亚语、黑山语和塞尔维亚语的拼写冲突:来自说话者态度和信仰的见解

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103622

Tomislav Stojanov

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Guyanais vs. Gardiol: Broken transmission vs. grammatical continuity Guyanais vs. Gardiol:破碎的传递vs.语法的连续性

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103625

Bart Jacobs

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“I agree!” empathetic head-nodding and its role in cultural competences development “我同意!共情点头及其在文化能力发展中的作用

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103629

Mark R. Freiermuth , Nurul Huda Hamzah

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Attentional semantics of deictic locatives 指示位置的注意语义

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103626

Kai-Uwe Carstensen

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Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization 英语中的极性隐喻:定义、识别与分类

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103623

Bingjun Yang , Hongmiao Gao

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Eye movements of adolescent students when reading Greeklish transliterations 青少年学生在阅读希腊语音译时的眼球运动

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103620

Ralia Thoma

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Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers 频率在第二语言习得中也很重要!西班牙语第二语言学习者和西班牙语母语者对状态动词的一般形态产生的频率效应

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103611

Patrick D. Thane

{"title":"Frequency matters in second language acquisition too! Frequency effects in the production of preterit morphology with state verbs in Spanish second language learners and heritage speakers","authors":"Patrick D. Thane","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The feature reassembly approach to second language acquisition research has been influential in laying the groundwork for recent theories of heritage languages. Lexical frequency has emerged as an important variable in recent studies within a feature-oriented approach to heritage language acquisition, but the focus on frequency has not yet received considerable attention with second language learners. To determine whether lexical frequency affects both populations of bilinguals, 51 adult heritage speakers and 40 second language learners of Spanish carried out a production task concerning preterit aspect morphology with state verbs of varying frequency, which represents an area of the Spanish aspectual system that is challenging for bilingual populations to acquire. Heritage speakers and second language learners were highly similar in their production tendencies: lower-proficiency speakers used the preterit with the least-frequent state verbs, while more proficient speakers in both groups showed less sensitivity to frequency, despite overall chance levels of preterit production. These findings extend recent research on Spanish as a heritage language by showing that second language learners are also influenced by frequency in their production of aspect morphology.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49722119","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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Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts 情态立场下的翻译语态:基于语料库的研究论文摘要汉英翻译的情态转换

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Lingua Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103610

Yueyue Huang , Dechao Li

{"title":"Translatorial voice through modal stance: A corpus-based study of modality shifts in Chinese-to-English translation of research article abstracts","authors":"Yueyue Huang , Dechao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2023.103610","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Research on translation shifts, especially divergence in modality, that occur to English translations of Chinese research article abstracts is rare. The article aims to explore the linguistic changes in modality use, a linguistic device for expressing authors’ evaluative judgement, in the abstracts of Chinese research articles and their English translations. By adopting a three-step analytical coding procedure from Systemic Functional Linguistics, the study analyses the cross-linguistic modality shifts in modal value, type and orientation in English translations of Chinese research article abstracts (RAAs) from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. It is found that 1) quantitatively, a considerable number of modality shifts have been observed in translated RAAs on value, followed by type and orientation, in which the distributions present a stronger and more objectivised stance resulting from a loss of modality on low-value implicit proposition; 2) qualitatively, Chinese-specific lexical, syntactic, and textual factors are associated with modality shifts, including lexical ambiguity, “run-on” sentences, and implicit information structure. The findings provide evidence of how original authorial modal stance is influenced by translators and integrated into academic discourse. The study also paves the way for future investigations of possible variables (e.g., the speech-written mode) in modality shifts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47955,"journal":{"name":"Lingua","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49722124","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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