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A corpus-based study on the “ungrammatical” aren't I 基于语料库的 "非语法""是不是 "研究

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000245

Mingyou Xiang, Xiao Jiang

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English signage shaping Tokyo's mosaic cityscape 英文标识塑造东京马赛克式城市景观

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000142

Satoshi Nambu

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Production of English vowel duration by multilingual speakers of Namibian English 纳米比亚英语多语种使用者的英语元音时长生成

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000130

Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Lannie Uwu-khaeb, Maija S. Peltola

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English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage 以英语为教学语言的教育与女童弱势地位的长期存在

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000075

Anna Kristina Hultgren, Anu Upadhaya, Lauren O'Hagan, Peter Wingrove, Amina Adamu, Mari Greenfield, Lorena Lombardozzi, Pramod K. Sah, Ismaila A. Tsiga, Aishat Umar, Freda Wolfenden

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Stylistic functions of anglicisms in German radio 德语广播中英语的文体功能

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000099

Sarah Josefine Schaefer

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Syntactic variation in Hong Kong English 香港英语的句法变异

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000087

Y. Köylü

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The rise of the idea of an American English - Ingrid Paulsen, The Emergence of American English as a Discursive Variety: Tracing Enregisterment Processes in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Newspapers. Berlin: Language Science Press, 2022. Pp. vi+450. eBook open access, ISBN: 978-3-96110-338-6 美国英语概念的兴起 - Ingrid Paulsen，《美国英语作为一种话语变体的出现》：追溯 19 世纪美国报纸的登记过程。柏林，语言科学出版社，2022 年：柏林：语言科学出版社，2022 年。电子书开放存取，ISBN：978-3-96110-338-6

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English Today Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0266078424000038

Matthew J. Gordon

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A machine that still doesn't quite understand us: Putting ChatGPT to the test 一台还不太了解我们的机器：测试 ChatGPT