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A diachronic consequence of intransitivity: structural underspecification and processing biases in Old French 不易变性的非同步后果：古法语中的结构欠规范和加工偏差

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0087

Michelle Troberg

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Processing reflexives in adjunct control: an exploration of attraction effects 辅助控制中的条件反射处理：对吸引力效应的探索

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0110

Myung Hye Yoo

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Through the compression glass: language complexity and the linguistic structure of compressed strings 透过压缩玻璃：语言复杂性和压缩字符串的语言结构

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0140

Katharina Ehret

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Missing link: code-switches, borrowings, and accommodation biases 缺失环节：代码转换、借用和通融偏差

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0088

Hendrik De Smet, Marlieke Shaw

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The meaning of morphomes: distributional semantics of Spanish stem alternations 词形的意义：西班牙语词干交替的分布语义学

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0010

Borja Herce, Marc Allassonnière-Tang

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Conative animal calls in Macha Oromo: function and form 马查奥罗莫语中的拟声动物叫声：功能与形式

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0056

Alexander Andrason, Onsho Mulugeta, Shimelis Mazengia

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Effects of grammatical gender on gender inferences: Evidence from French hybrid nouns 语法性别对性别推断的影响：来自法语混合名词的证据

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0064

Benjamin Storme, Laura Delaloye Saillen

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Cognitive mechanisms driving (contact-induced) language change: introduction to the special issue 驱动（接触引起的）语言变化的认知机制：特刊导言

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0164

Michael Percillier, Yela Schauwecker

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Bilingualism-induced language change: what can change, when, and why? 双语引起的语言变化：什么会变、何时变、为什么变？

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0089

John A. Hawkins, Luna Filipović

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Semantic change and socio-semantic variation: the case of COVID-related neologisms on Reddit 语义变化和社会语义变异：Reddit上与COVID相关的新词案例

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0106

Quirin Würschinger, Barbara McGillivray

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