Search Results - "Lingua"

Problems of projection by Chomsky, Noam

“…► Merge applies in its simplest form. ► Minimal search makes use of structural rather than linear distance. ► Labels are required for interpretation at the…”
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‘Using all English is not always meaningful’: Stakeholders’ perspectives on the use of and attitudes towards translanguaging at a Chinese university by Fang, Fan, Liu, Yang

“…•Teachers in EMI and EFL classes in a Chinese university display various translanguaging practices.•Most teachers recognise and adopt translanguaging in…”
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Funny but aversive: A large-scale survey of the emotional response to Covid-19 humor in the Italian population during the lockdown by Bischetti, Luca, Canal, Paolo, Bambini, Valentina

“…•We studied the Covid-19 humor appreciation during Italy's lockdown in March 2020.•Humor inspired by Covid-19 showed a mark of aversiveness, but not of…”
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Metadiscourse across languages and genres: An overview by Hyland, Ken, Wang, Wenbin, (Kevin) Jiang, Feng

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The power of swearing: What we know and what we don’t by Stapleton, Karyn, Beers Fägersten, Kristy, Stephens, Richard, Loveday, Catherine

“…•Swearing is different from and more powerful than other forms of language use.•Research review shows physiological, cognitive, emotional and interactional…”
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A comparison of informal and formal acceptability judgments using a random sample from Linguistic Inquiry 2001–2010 by Sprouse, Jon, Schütze, Carson T., Almeida, Diogo

“…•We compare the results of informal and formal acceptability judgment methods.•We test 296 sentence types randomly sampled from Linguistic Inquiry.•936…”
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The non-native speaker teacher as proficient multilingual: A critical review of research from 2009–2018 by Calafato, Raees

“…•A growing number of studies are exploring NNSTs’ multilinguality.•NNSTs can develop a reactive multilingual identity due to native-speakerism.•NNSTs in Europe…”
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Syntactic complexity of interpreted, L2 and L1 speech: A constrained language perspective by Liu, Yi, Cheung, Andrew K.F., Liu, Kanglong

“…•Simplification is a shared feature in constrained spoken languages (i.e., interpreted and L2 speech).•14 syntactic complexity metrics were used to evaluate…”
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Is dependency distance experiencing a process of minimization? A diachronic study based on the State of the Union addresses by Lei, Lei, Wen, Ju

“…⿢An initial diachronic study to investigate dependency distance minimization.⿢Dependency distance has been decreasing across the examined span of more than 200…”
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Stance expressions in academic writing: A corpus-based comparison of Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses by Wu, Bin, Paltridge, Brian

“…•Stance features in Chinese students’ MA dissertations and PhD theses were compared.•The MA dissertations and PhD theses were written by the same students.•PhD…”
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Variations in answering negative polar questions in Korean: An experimental study by Kim, Jong-Bok, Kim, Jungsoo, Nam, Yunju

“…•Answering Korean NPQs with SFN in general respects the truth-based answering system.•Answering Korean NPQs with LFN overall follows the polarity-based…”
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A better or worse communicator? Comparing human and machine translation in source language shining through across registers by Li, Jia, Hu, Xianyao

“…•A semi-supervised multivariate approach was applied.•Machine translation exhibits a stronger tendency towards shining-through.•The shining-through effect is…”
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Dependencies between adverbs and sentence-final particles: A case of confirmative and non-confirmative modals in Cantonese by Lee, Peppina Po-lun

“…•Epistemic modals as confirmative modals.•Evidentials as non-confirmative modals.•Modal spread from confirmative to non-confirmative modals. This study…”
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Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors by Li, Wen, Yang, Bingjun

“…•Nominalizing metaphors (NMs) are either morphological or non-morphological.•Morphological priority principle (MPP) moderates the overload of NMs.•The…”
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A corpus-driven comparative analysis of AI in academic discourse: Investigating ChatGPT-generated academic texts in social sciences by Tudino, Giordano, Qin, Yan

“…•The study compares linguistic patterns between AI-generated and human-authored academic articles in social sciences.•ChatGPT’s limitations include the overuse…”
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Gaplessness in Chinese relative clauses by Li, Chen, Kang, Seung-Man

“…•Chinese is a paratactic language with frequent deletion of sentential elements, especially in relative clauses.•Deletion of prepositions and verbs in Chinese…”
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Diachronic changes in lexical density of research article abstracts: A corpus-based study by Zhu, Haoran, Wang, Teng, Pang, Nana

“…•Lexical density was found to rise in research article abstracts.•Hard science disciplines exhibit higher lexical density than soft sciences.•Lexical density…”
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Simplification in translated Chinese: An entropy-based approach by Liu, Kanglong, Liu, Zhongzhu, Lei, Lei

“…•The simplification universal hypothesis has not been fully supported.•Entropy was used to analyse the complexity between translated and native…”
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Looking for someone: The encoding of indefinite human reference in Chinese/English aligned translation by Lena, Ludovica

“…•The study contrasts Chinese and English in encoding indefinite human reference.•Tackles typological differences in syntactical versus pronominal…”
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The role of phonological overlap and cognates in dual logographic bilinguals’ phonological processing by Liu, Xiaoping, Zhang, Yan, Zeng, Bingjie, Liu, Ye, Wang, Xiaolu

“…•A phoneme monitoring task was used to test Chinese-Japanese bilingual lexical access for the first time.•Phonological overlapping effects are modulated by L2…”
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