Languages最新文献_第3页

Questioning Practices and Speech Style Shifting in Korean Entertainment Talk Shows 韩国娱乐脱口秀中的提问方式和语体转换

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040286

Kyung-Eun Yoon

{"title":"Questioning Practices and Speech Style Shifting in Korean Entertainment Talk Shows","authors":"Kyung-Eun Yoon","doi":"10.3390/languages8040286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040286","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the dynamics of questioning practices and speech-style shifting in Korean entertainment talk shows. While prior research has examined the topic of questioning practices in the Korean language, mostly in everyday conversation or educational discourse, this article expands this investigation to encompass semi-institutional discourse, particularly focusing on the context of entertainment talk shows. This research also contributes to understanding the pragmatic characteristics of two Korean honorific speech styles, namely the polite (-yo) and deferential (-(su)pnita/-(su)pnikka) styles, by investigating their interplay and transitions. Adopting an interactional approach to discourse and drawing upon membership categorization analysis and conversation analysis, this study analyzes the discourse of 15 entertainment talk shows, with a special focus on approximately 1500 sentential units, 325 of which are questions. The analysis of these utterances provides an account of the utilization of linguistic resources in questioning practices and the utilization of the two Korean honorific speech styles in the joint construction of social activities and identities within the entertainment talk show setting. The selection of linguistic resources for questioning practices and style shifting is closely intertwined with the management of entertainment and institutional dynamics among the participants in this particular setting.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"3 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Vocative Intonation in Language Contact: The Case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish 语言接触中的词汇语调：保加利亚语-犹太语-西班牙语案例

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-08 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040284

Jonas Grünke, B. Andreeva, Christoph Gabriel, Mitko Sabev

{"title":"Vocative Intonation in Language Contact: The Case of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish","authors":"Jonas Grünke, B. Andreeva, Christoph Gabriel, Mitko Sabev","doi":"10.3390/languages8040284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040284","url":null,"abstract":"The present study investigates the prosodic realization of calling contours by bilingual speakers of Bulgarian and (Bulgarian) Judeo-Spanish and monolingual speakers of Bulgarian in a discourse completion task across three pragmatic contexts: (i) neutral (routine) context—calling a child from afar to come in for dinner; (ii) positive context—calling a child from afar to get a present; and (iii) negative (or urgent) context—calling a child from afar for a chastising. Through quantitative analyses of the F0 span between tonal landmarks, alignment of pitch peaks, intensity, and durational and prominence patterns, we systematically account for the phonetic characteristics of the contours and determine their tonal composition and meaning, thereby situating them within the intonation systems of Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish and Bulgarian. It is shown that both languages use the same inventory of contours: (1) L+H* !H-% (the so-called “vocative chant”), (2) L+H* H-L%, and (3) L+H* L-%. However, their distribution differs across contexts and varieties. Monolingual and bilingual speakers of Bulgarian, on the one hand, predominantly use (1) and (2) in neutral and positive contexts and clearly prefer (3) in negative contexts. In Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish, the bilinguals also more often recur to (3) in neutral and positive contexts and generally show more variation.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"73 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138586769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Introduction to the Special Issue Social Meanings of Language Variation in Spanish 西班牙语语言变异的社会意义》特刊导言

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040283

Sonia Barnes, Whitney Chappell

引用次数: 0

Inferential Interrogatives with qué in Spanish 西班牙语中带有 qué 的推理式问句

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040282

Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández, Mercedes Tubino-Blanco

引用次数: 0

Current Approaches to Heritage Spanish and the Identity Construction of Spanish Heritage Speakers: Lessons Learnt from Five European Countries 遗产西班牙语的现行方法与西班牙语遗产使用者的身份构建：欧洲五国的经验教训

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040281

María Cecilia Ainciburu, Kris Buyse, Marta Gallego-García, Eva González Melón

{"title":"Current Approaches to Heritage Spanish and the Identity Construction of Spanish Heritage Speakers: Lessons Learnt from Five European Countries","authors":"María Cecilia Ainciburu, Kris Buyse, Marta Gallego-García, Eva González Melón","doi":"10.3390/languages8040281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040281","url":null,"abstract":"An individual’s social identity, often overlooked in Europe in the field of Spanish as a second or foreign language (S2L/SFL), has always been the focus of attention in the teaching of heritage Spanish in the USA, especially in programmes designed from critical pedagogy and based on a reconstructive narrative of Latino immigration. There, heritage speakers (HS) strengthen their identity as linguistic experts and contribute to positive social change that counteracts the scholastic subordination of Spanish to English in primary schools. In this research based on verified questionnaires, we investigate in the European context (Italy, Poland, Germany, Portugal, and Belgium) how primary–middle school HSs attending extracurricular S2L/SFL classes self-perceive their identity in comparison to S2L/SFL students. The results show that the incidence of the factor “country of origin” is central to identity recognition and highlight the feelings linked to different classroom conditions and dynamics for heritage and S2L/SFL students. To conclude, these results are contrasted with those obtained in the United States.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Can L2 Pronunciation Be Evaluated without Reference to a Native Model? Pillai Scores for the Intrinsic Evaluation of L2 Vowels 不参照母语模式能否评估 L2 发音？第二语言元音内在评估的 Pillai 分数

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040280

Paolo Mairano, Fabián Santiago, Leonardo Contreras Roa

{"title":"Can L2 Pronunciation Be Evaluated without Reference to a Native Model? Pillai Scores for the Intrinsic Evaluation of L2 Vowels","authors":"Paolo Mairano, Fabián Santiago, Leonardo Contreras Roa","doi":"10.3390/languages8040280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040280","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we explore the possibility of evaluating L2 pronunciation, and, more specifically, L2 vowels, without referring to a native model, i.e., intrinsically. Instead of comparing L2 vowel productions to native speakers’ productions, we use Pillai scores to measure the overlap between target vowel categories in L2 English (/iː/ — /ɪ/, /ɑː/ — /æ/, /ɜː/ — /ʌ/, /uː/ — /ʊ/) for L1 French, L1 Spanish, and L1 Italian learners (n = 40); and in L2 French (/y/ — /u/, /ø/ — /o/, /ø/ — /e/, /ɛ˜/ — /e /, /ɑ˜/ — /a/, /ɔ˜/ — /o/) for L1 English, L1 Spanish, and L1 Italian learners (n = 48). We assume that a greater amount of overlap within a contrast indicates assimilated categories in a learner’s production, whereas a smaller amount of overlap indicates the establishment of phonological categories and distinct realisations for members of the contrast. Pillai scores were significant predictors of native ratings of comprehensibility and/or nativelikeness for many of the contrasts considered. Despite some limitations and caveats, we argue that Pillai scores and similar methods for the intrinsic evaluation of L2 pronunciation can be used, (i) to avoid direct comparisons of L2 users’ performance with native monolinguals, following recent trends in SLA research; (ii) when comparable L1 data are not available; (iii) within longitudinal studies to track the progressive development of new phonological categories.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139224713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

A Corpus Analysis of the Effects of Definiteness and Animacy on Word Order Variation 定义和动物性对词序变化影响的语料库分析

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-27 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040279

H. Asadpour

引用次数: 0

His or Her? Errors in Possessive Determiners Made by L2-English Native Spanish Speakers 他的还是她的？以西班牙语为母语的英语第二语言使用者在使用占有性限定词时出现的错误

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-25 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040278

Esther Jesús-Ortiz, J. R. Calvo-Ferrer

{"title":"His or Her? Errors in Possessive Determiners Made by L2-English Native Spanish Speakers","authors":"Esther Jesús-Ortiz, J. R. Calvo-Ferrer","doi":"10.3390/languages8040278","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040278","url":null,"abstract":"Native Spanish speakers commonly confuse third person singular possessive determiners when making gender agreements, which is considered an error-prone grammatical feature because there are syntactic differences in their use between English and Spanish. This study conducted an elicited production task to explore whether proficiency in English affects the correct use of his/her by Spanish speakers in speech production, whether participants make more errors depending on the gender match or mismatch between the possessor and the possessum in the noun phrase, and whether there are differences in the number of errors made due to the gender of the possessor. The results showed that sentences with a gender mismatch condition had higher error rates and that advanced L2 speakers made fewer mistakes than less proficient ones. However, proficiency did not mitigate the number of errors in sentences which required the use of the feminine possessive determiner, which is in line with the theory of the default masculine gender in Spanish. The study provides valuable insights into the challenges faced by native Spanish speakers when producing possessive gender agreements in English and highlights the need for more targeted instruction to address these issues in the teaching of English as a foreign language.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139236877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The Role of Prediction Error in 4-Year-Olds’ Learning of English Direct Object Datives 预测错误在 4 岁幼儿学习英语直接宾语时的作用

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040276

Chiara Gambi, Katherine Messenger

{"title":"The Role of Prediction Error in 4-Year-Olds’ Learning of English Direct Object Datives","authors":"Chiara Gambi, Katherine Messenger","doi":"10.3390/languages8040276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8040276","url":null,"abstract":"Is children’s acquisition of structural knowledge driven by prediction errors? Error-driven models of language acquisition propose that children generate expectations about upcoming words (prediction), compare them to the input, and, when they detect a mismatch (i.e., prediction error signal), update their long-term linguistic knowledge. But we only have limited empirical evidence for this learning mechanism. Using a novel touch-screen app and a pre-post training between-subjects design, we tested the effect of prediction errors on 120 English-learning 4-year-olds’ understanding of challenging direct object datives. We hypothesized that children who are exposed to input that encourages the generation of prediction error signals should show greater improvements in their post-test comprehension scores. Consistent with error-driven models of language learning, we found that children exposed to sentences that encouraged the generation of incorrect linguistic predictions improved numerically more than those who were exposed to sentences that did not support predictions. However, we caution that these preliminary findings need to be confirmed by additional testing on much larger samples (we only tested 20–30 children per training condition). If confirmed, these findings would provide some of the strongest empirical support to date for the role of prediction error in the acquisition of linguistic structure.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139244698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The Impact of Non-Native Language Input on Bilingual Children’s Language Skills 非母语输入对双语儿童语言技能的影响

IF 0.9

Languages Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.3390/languages8040277

Milijana Buac, Margarita Kaushanskaya

引用次数: 0