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The overlooked effect of amplitude on within-speaker vowel variation 振幅对说话者内部元音变化的影响被忽视了

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-24 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0086

Joshua Wilson Black, Jennifer Hay, Lynn Clark, James Brand

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The impact of Star Wars on the English language: Star Wars-derived words and constructions in present-day English corpora 《星球大战》对英语的影响:现代英语语料库中与《星球大战》有关的词汇和结构

IF 1.1 2区文学

Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0029

Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer

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From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture 从《星际迷航》到《饥饿游戏》:科幻小说中的象征手势及其在流行文化中的应用

2区文学

Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0006

Peta M. Freestone, Jessica Kruk, Lauren Gawne

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The language of men and women in Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: Discovery 《星际迷航:原系列》和《星际迷航:发现号》中男女的语言

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-15 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0023

Tanja Behrens

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“There was much new to grok”: an analysis of word coinage in science fiction literature “有很多新东西要学”:科幻文学词汇造词分析

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0011

Matt Gee

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“So, I trucked out to the border, learned to say ain’t, came to find work”: the sociolinguistics of Firefly “所以，我开着卡车来到边境，学会说ain 't，来找工作”:《萤火虫》中的社会语言学

2区文学

Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0013

Catherine Laliberté, Melanie Keller, Diana Wengler

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A corpus-based study of quoi in French native speech 基于语料库的法语母语quoi研究

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0027

Delin Deng, Fenqi Wang

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Tapped /r/ in RP: a corpus-based sociophonetic study across the twentieth century RP中的音/r/:跨二十世纪基于语料库的社会语音学研究

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0092

Delia Belando

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Perceiving with strangeness: quantifying a style of altered consciousness as estrangement in a corpus of 1960s American science fiction 带着陌生感去感知:在20世纪60年代美国科幻小说的语料库中将一种意识改变的风格量化为异化

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2022-0165

Elizabeth Oakes

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Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction” “科幻小说的语言”特刊简介

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Linguistics Vanguard Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2023-0031

Sofia Rüdiger, Claudia Lange

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