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Factors influencing number marking errors in spoken English by L1 Chinese learners: A learner corpus study 影响母语汉语学习者英语口语数字标注错误的因素：一项学习者语料库研究

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100187

Dongchen Yao

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Semantic prosody as a part of attitudinal meaning: Its effect on the processing of synonymous words 作为态度意义一部分的语义韵律对同义词加工的影响

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100184

Leyla Çimen , Günçe Günduğdu , Nermin Yazıcı

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A corpus study of lexical richness in three groups of learners: are heritage learners in between monolingual native and L2 learners? 三组学习者词汇丰富性的语料库研究：传统学习者是介于单语母语学习者和二语学习者之间吗？

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100182

Irene Checa-García

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Studying webcare across industries: from customer care to relationship management 跨行业研究网络护理：从客户关怀到关系管理

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100175

Ursula Lutzky

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Exploring engineering discourse through phrase-frames: Pedagogical recommendations 通过短语框架探索工程话语：教学建议

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2026.100188

Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker

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Epistemic lexical verbs in academic writing: A corpus-based comparative study of L1 English and L1 Chinese writers of English 学术写作中的认知词汇动词：基于语料库的母语英语和母语汉语英语作者比较研究

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100144

Fei Xie, Amanda Patten

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CHEU-lex: a parallel multilingual corpus of Swiss and EU legislation CHEU-lex：瑞士和欧盟立法的平行多语言语料库

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100151

Annarita Felici

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The multisemiotic dimension of 5G news: A corpus-based discursive news values analysis 5G新闻的多符号学维度：基于语料库的话语新闻价值分析

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100153

Youqi Kong , Wei Lin

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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of children’s and groomers’ talk in online grooming interactions 基于语料库辅助的在线梳理互动中儿童和美容师谈话的话语分析

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100147

Craig Evans , Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

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Predicting verb forms in reporting and reported clauses: A corpus-based study of academic citations 转述和间接从句动词形式预测：基于语料库的学术引文研究

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Applied Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2025-12-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100155

Atikhom Thienthong

{"title":"Predicting verb forms in reporting and reported clauses: A corpus-based study of academic citations","authors":"Atikhom Thienthong","doi":"10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acorp.2025.100155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Verb forms are crucial time-reference expressions in academic citations, observed to be affected by citational and linguistic features, such as citation forms, reporting subjects, and reporting verbs (i.e., citation-internal features). Using a corpus of 852 journal articles, this first corpus-based study investigates a range of citation-internal factors in 3,694 academic citations to determine their main and interaction effects on the choice of verb forms through multinomial logistic regression modeling. The original and bootstrapped results show that most of the main factors significantly predict the selection of verb forms in reporting and reported clauses. The occurrence of reporting and reported verb forms is affected by the number of sources, citation forms, subject animacy, meaning-based verbs, and activity verbs. However, while subject definiteness strongly affects reporting verb forms but not reported ones, the reverse is true for evaluation verbs. In addition, two significant interaction terms are observed for reported verb forms; general subjects and tentative verbs interact to choose the present, while multiple sources interact with non-integral citations to influence the choice of modal verbs. The results underscore the importance of citation-internal features in influencing and contextualizing the use of verb forms to express temporal reference in academic citations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72254,"journal":{"name":"Applied Corpus Linguistics","volume":"5 3","pages":"Article 100155"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145320233","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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