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Language science outreach through schools and social media: critical considerations 通过学校和社交媒体开展语言科学宣传：关键考虑因素

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2024-0078

Lillianna Righter, Hallie Garrison, Elika Bergelson

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Ongoing exposure to an ambient language continues to build implicit knowledge across the lifespan 持续接触环境语言可在人的一生中不断积累内隐知识

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0137

Wakayo Mattingley, Jennifer Hay, Simon Todd, Forrest Panther, Jeanette King, Peter J. Keegan

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Metaphor and gender: are words associated with source domains perceived in a gendered way? 隐喻与性别：与源领域相关的词语是否具有性别特征？

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2024-0021

Kathleen Ahrens, Winnie Huiheng Zeng, Christian Burgers, Chu-Ren Huang

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Finding continuers in Swedish Sign Language 用瑞典手语寻找连续词

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2024-0025

Carl Börstell

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Crossmodal correspondence between lexical tones and visual motions: a forced-choice mapping task on Mandarin Chinese 词汇声调与视觉动作的跨模态对应：普通话强制选择映射任务

IF 1.1 2区文学

Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0151

Feier Gao

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Tracking phonological regularities: exploring the influence of learning mode and regularity locus in adult phonological learning 追踪语音规律性：探索学习模式和规律性定位对成人语音学习的影响

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0050

Xiaoyu Yu, Thomas Van Hoey, Frank Lihui Tan, Baichen Du, Youngah Do

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Decoding French equivalents of the English present perfect: evidence from parallel corpora of parliamentary documents 英语现在完成时的法语对等词解码：来自议会文件平行语料库的证据

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0097

Thatchanon Raoprasert, Athip Thumvichit

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Influence of translation on perceived metaphor features: quality, aptness, metaphoricity, and familiarity 翻译对感知隐喻特征的影响：质量、贴切度、隐喻性和熟悉度

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0086

Katarina Milenković, Miloš Tasić, Dušan Stamenković

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Revisiting the automatic prediction of lexical errors in Mandarin 重新审视普通话词汇错误的自动预测

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0036

Marc Allassonnière-Tang, I-Ping Wan

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Could this be next for corpus linguistics? Methods of semi-automatic data annotation with contextualized word embeddings 这可能是语料库语言学的下一个目标吗？利用上下文词嵌入进行半自动数据注释的方法

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0142

Lauren Fonteyn, Enrique Manjavacas, Nina Haket, Aletta G. Dorst, Eva Kruijt

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