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Book Review 书评

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242221095118

Minna Palander-Collin

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A Diachronic Study of Modals and Semi-modals in Indian English Newspapers 印度英语报刊中情态和半情态的历时性研究

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242221087244

Catherine Laliberté

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Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy 书评：《语言正义：黑人语言、识字、身份认同与教育学》

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211055760

Jessica A. Grieser

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Regional Variation and Syntactic Derivation of Low-frequency need -passives on Twitter Twitter上低频需求被动语态的区域变异与句法推导

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211066971

Christopher Strelluf

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Recent Grammatical Change in Postcolonial Englishes: A Real-time Study of Genitive Variation in Caribbean and Indian News Writing 后殖民英语语法的近期变化：加勒比海和印度新闻写作中的词根变异的实时研究

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211052490

Stephanie Hackert, Diana Wengler

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Merger Reversal in St. Louis: Implementation and Implications 圣路易斯的合并逆转:实施和影响

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242221083648

D. Duncan

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Interview with John Baugh 约翰·鲍访谈录

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211047891

Tracy Conner

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Mechanisms of Grammaticalization in the Variation of Negative Question Tags 否定疑问句变异中的语法化机制

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211044837

Claire Childs

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Accent Bias and Perceptions of Professional Competence in England 英国人的口音偏见与专业能力认知

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211046316

E. Levon, D. Sharma, Dominic J. L. Watt, Amanda Cardoso, Yang Ye

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Back Vowel Dynamics and Distinctions in Southern American English 南美洲英语的后元音动态及其区别

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Journal of English Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/00754242211043163

J. A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, K. Kuiper, Rachel M. Olsen

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