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Vocal accommodation to technology: the role of physical form 声音对技术的适应:物理形式的作用

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101567

Michelle Cohn , Ashley Keaton , Jonas Beskow , Georgia Zellou

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Communication accommodation theory: Past accomplishments, current trends, and future prospects 沟通适应理论:过去的成就，现在的趋势和未来的前景

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101571

Howard Giles , America L. Edwards , Joseph B. Walther

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Accommodation, social attraction, and intergroup attitudes on social media: the effects of outgroup self-presentation and ingroup accommodation 社交媒体上的适应、社会吸引和群体间态度:外群体自我表现和内群体适应的影响

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101563

Yan Bing Zhang , Jake Harwood , Cameron Piercy , Ning Liu , Racheal Ruble

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Responses to CAT at 50: Reflections on accommodation from a sociolinguist 50岁时对CAT的回应:一位社会语言学家对适应的思考

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101570

Miriam Meyerhoff

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Corrigendum to “The influence of linguistic and social attitudes on grammaticality judgments of singular ‘they’” [Lang Sci 78 (2020) 101272] “语言和社会态度对单数“they”的语法判断的影响”的勘误表[Lang Sci] 78 (2020) 101272]

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101581

Evan D. Bradley

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A multidimensional alignment sustainability model for language development: Evidence from L1 and L2 semio-semantic and semio-pragmatic markers 语言发展的多维一致性可持续性模型:来自L1和L2半语义和半语用标记的证据

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101572

Hao-Zhang Xiao , Weiwei Zhang , Ruifeng Mo

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Reconceptualising the notion of cross-linguistic transfer in multilingual spaces: A Global South perspective from South Africa 重新定义多语言空间中的跨语言迁移概念:来自南非的全球南方视角

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101573

Dumisile N. Mkhize

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How does language evolve as a multi-level system? A quantitative exploration of written Chinese 语言作为一个多层次的系统是如何发展的？汉语书面语的定量探索

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101554

Heng Chen, Yaqin Wang

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Sound-meaning mapping: Verbal imitation of Super Mario music by Yorùbá gamers 声音意义映射：Yorúbá游戏玩家对超级马里奥音乐的口头模仿

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101553

Samuel Kayode Akinbo

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Revisiting complement and parenthetical constructions: theory and description 补语和括号结构的再认识：理论与描述

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Language Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2023.101545

An Van linden, Lieven Vandelanotte, Lieselotte Brems

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