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Styling Authenticity in Country Music 乡村音乐的真实风格

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050168

Valentin Werner, Anna Ledermann

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A Feature Alignment Approach to Plural Realization in Eastern Andalusian Spanish 东安达卢西亚西班牙语中复数实现的特征对齐方法

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050166

Stuart Davis, Matt Pollock

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Prosodic Rephrasing and Violations of the Phase Impenetrability Condition 拟声重述与相位不可渗透性条件的违反

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050162

Güliz Güneş

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Nonverbal Communication in Classroom Interaction and Its Role in Italian Foreign Language Teaching and Learning 课堂互动中的非语言交流及其在意大利语外语教学中的作用

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050164

Pierangela Diadori

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Metaphorical Personal Names in Mabia Languages of West Africa 西非马比亚语言中的隐喻人名

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050163

H. Abubakari, S. Issah

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Is the Suppliance of L2 Inflectional Morphology Subject to Covert Contrasts? An Analysis of the Production of L2 English Third Person Singular Agreement by L1 Bengali Speakers 第二语言屈折词词形的依从性受制于隐性对比吗？对孟加拉语第一语言者产生英语第二语言第三人称单数一致的分析

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-05-01 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050165

Jacqueline Ingham

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Use of Embedded Clauses in Heritage and Monolingual Russian 传统俄语和单语俄语中嵌入式分句的使用

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050157

Maria Martynova, Yulia Zuban, Natalia Gagarina, Luka Szucsich

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Language Processing Units Are Not Equivalent to Sentences: Evidence from Writing Tasks in Typical and Dyslexic Children 语言处理单元不等同于句子：来自典型和阅读障碍儿童写作任务的证据

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050155

Georgeta Cislaru, Quentin Feltgen, E. Khoury, Richard Delorme, Maria Pia Bucci

{"title":"Language Processing Units Are Not Equivalent to Sentences: Evidence from Writing Tasks in Typical and Dyslexic Children","authors":"Georgeta Cislaru, Quentin Feltgen, E. Khoury, Richard Delorme, Maria Pia Bucci","doi":"10.3390/languages9050155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050155","url":null,"abstract":"Despite recent research on the building blocks of language processing, the nature of the units involved in the production of written texts remains elusive: intonation units, which are evidenced by empirical results across a growing body of work, are not suitable for writing, where the sentence remains the common reference. Drawing on the analysis of the writing product and process, our study explores how children with and without dyslexia handle sentences. The children were asked to write a short story and the writing process was recorded using keystroke logging software (Inputlog 7 & 8). We measured the number of pauses, the nature of the language sequences segmented by pauses, and the revision operations performed throughout the process. We analyzed sentences both in product and process. Our results showed that both the written product and the writing process reflect the establishment of a syntactic schema during language processing in typical children, in line with the first functional step in processing. This was not clearly evidenced in the case of dyslexic children, due to their limited production: beyond spelling, syntactic elaboration was also affected. In contrast, it appeared that the units of language processing cannot be equated with sentences in writing: the information flow is produced through usually smaller bursts that each carry part of the meaning or correspond to a specific operation of text crafting and revision.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140659131","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}

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Radio-Lect: Spanish/English Code-Switching in On-Air Advertisements 广播讲座：广播广告中的西班牙语/英语代码转换

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050156

Roshawnda A. Derrick

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Visual Cues to Speakers’ Religious Affiliation and Listeners’ Understanding of Second Language French Speech 发言者宗教信仰的视觉线索与听者对第二语言法语语音的理解

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Languages Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.3390/languages9050154

Sara Kennedy, P. Trofimovich, Rachael Lindberg, Oğuzhan Tekin

{"title":"Visual Cues to Speakers’ Religious Affiliation and Listeners’ Understanding of Second Language French Speech","authors":"Sara Kennedy, P. Trofimovich, Rachael Lindberg, Oğuzhan Tekin","doi":"10.3390/languages9050154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9050154","url":null,"abstract":"Previous research has shown that speakers’ visual appearance influences listeners’ perception of second language (L2) speech. In Québec, Canada, the context of this study, pandemic mask mandates and a provincial secularism law elicited strong societal reactions. We therefore examined how images of speakers wearing religious and nonreligious coverings such as medical masks and headscarves influenced the comprehensibility (listeners’ ease of understanding) and intelligibility of L2 French speech. Four L2 French women from first language (L1) Arabic backgrounds wore surgical masks while recording 40 sentences from a standardized French-language speech perception test. A total of 104 L1 French listeners transcribed and rated the comprehensibility of the sentences, paired with images of women in four visual conditions: uncovered face, medical mask, hijab (headscarf), and niqab (religious face covering). Listeners also completed a questionnaire on attitudes toward immigrants, cultural values, and secularism. Although intelligibility was high, sentences in the medical mask condition were significantly more intelligible and more comprehensible than those in the niqab condition. Several attitudinal measures showed weak correlations with intelligibility or comprehensibility in several visual conditions. The results suggest that listeners’ understanding of L2 sentences was negatively affected by images showing speakers’ religious affiliation, but more extensive follow-up studies are recommended.","PeriodicalId":52329,"journal":{"name":"Languages","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140664474","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}

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