The existence of L1 influence on the course of development of L2 representation: Evidence from L2 acquisition of verb phrase ellipsis
Publication date: Available online 26 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Lulu Zhang (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 27, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: March 2020Source: Lingua, Volume 236Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 27, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Mediating cross-cultural differences in research article rhetorical moves in academic translation: A pilot corpus-based study of abstracts
This article aims to explore the differences in rhetorical preferences between independently produced English and Chinese research article abstracts and the strategies used in translating Chinese RAAs into English. RAAs published in three journals between 2006 and 2016 were selected to form three corpora: corpus A consisting of 32 English RAAs, corpus B made up of 38 Chinese RAAs, and corpus C including 38 English RAAs which are translations of the RAAs in corpus B. Corpus A and B form a comparable corpus while corpus B and C constitute a parallel corpus. Results suggest that Chinese and English RAAs have different prefere...
Source: Lingua - February 23, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Capturing injunctive norm in pragmatics: Meta-reflective evaluations and the moral order
Publication date: Available online 22 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Dániel Z. KádárAbstractThis paper contributes to the development of pragmatic research into norms by revisiting the concept of ‘norm’ beyond how it has been conventionally interpreted in the field, and by also proposing a metapragmatic approach which can be adopted to provide evidence of the operation of norm over and above what has previously been discussed. Regarding the first of these objectives, while pragmatics has studied descriptive norms in detail by focusing on what is usually done or avoided in a particular context, little attentio...
Source: Lingua - February 23, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Intonation and exchange: A dynamic and metafunctional view
Publication date: Available online 20 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Gerard O’Grady (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 20, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The syntax-prosody competition: Evidence from adjunct prosodic parsing in iGeneration Taiwanese
Publication date: Available online 15 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Yuchau E. HsiaoAbstractThe syntax-phonology interface has been widely discussed. This paper probes into the connection between adjunct tone sandhi and phonological phrasing in iGeneration Taiwanese (iGT); the iGeneration grew up with an iPhone (or a smartphone) in hand. The corpus established in this research shows that the iGT speakers tend to parse expressions into shorter fragments, which are by nature prosodic domains on which tone sandhi operates. The syntax-prosody competition is keyed to a set of alignment and prosodic markedness constraints...
Source: Lingua - February 15, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Instructed highlighting of text passages – Indicator of reading or strategic performance?
Publication date: Available online 12 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Nora Heyne, Cordula Artelt, Timo Gnambs, Karin Gehrer, Cornelia SchoorAbstractIn contrast to highlighting within self-regulated learning, instructed highlighting refers to the selective marking of text passages to answer given questions about texts which emerges in classroom settings or can be used in test administrations. According to literature, it requires reading processes of different complexity and focusing on and selecting of passages of texts, controlling and regulating processes that are operations of learning strategies. Therefore, we exp...
Source: Lingua - February 14, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Marketization attempts by universities in Hong Kong: An appraisal analysis of institutional responses to quality audit evaluations
Publication date: Available online 10 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Victor HoAbstractDrawing upon Appraisal Theory as the analytical tool, the study attempts to provide evidence for the marketization of tertiary education by showing how universities in Hong Kong achieve a positive self-presentation with appraisal resources in constructing their responses to quality audit evaluations. The study reveals that a positive self-presentation could materialize through the universities’ use of appraisal resources in pursuing four possible strategies, depending on the favourability of the evaluations: (1) highlighting and ...
Source: Lingua - February 11, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: February 2020Source: Lingua, Volume 235Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - February 9, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Inferring implications in semantic maps via the Apriori algorithm
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Ni Zeng, Hong XiaoAbstractSemantic maps are powerful tools for analyzing cross-language variations with implications between semantic functions to construct the relevant conceptual space. However, as existing semantic maps cannot illustrate the imbalance of implications between functions, a further discussion of inferring implications is highly demanded. The problem of inferring implications and the imbalance of implications between functions above is similar to the well-known problem of generating all significant association rules between items pur...
Source: Lingua - February 2, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Lexical category bias across interpreting types: Implications for synergy between cognitive constraints and language representations
Publication date: Available online 1 February 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Haibo Jia, Junying LiangAbstractWhile previous results based on quantitative approaches to interpreting output have evidenced distinctive lexical, syntactic and language sequence features across interpreting types as a result of processing differences, none of them has probed into the lexical category realm. In this paper, the activity index, a normalized ratio between verb and adjective occurrences in the text, was used to capture the lexical-category-related patterns across output texts of three interpreting types, namely, simultaneous interpretin...
Source: Lingua - February 2, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Will it really happen? Disambiguating of the hypothetical and real “Next Wednesday's meeting” question in Mandarin speakers
Publication date: Available online 31 January 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Heng LiAbstractPrevious research has consistently shown that Mandarin speakers tended to adopt the Moving Time perspective when addressing the “Next Wednesday's meeting” question. Using the revised paradigm, Experiment 1 found that Mandarin speakers showed no preference for either the ego-moving perspective or the time-moving perspective when reading the single verb “移动(move)” which lacks a precise spatial meaning, suggesting that the temporal ambiguity of the probe is rooted in the directional neutrality of the verb. Experiment 2 procee...
Source: Lingua - January 31, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Key phrase frames in the discussion section of research articles of higher education
Publication date: Available online 25 January 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Seyyed Ehsan Golparvar, Elyas BarabadiAbstractRecent scholarship on phraseology in academic writing has concentrated on phrase frames (p-frames), which are recurrent sequences of identical words with a variable slot. The present study purports to identify the key phrase frames in the discussion section of research articles of higher education. The corpus used in this research consists of the discussions of research articles published from 2013 to 2018 in thirteen leading journals in the field of higher education. The p-frames extracted by KfNgram we...
Source: Lingua - January 27, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
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Publication date: January 2020Source: Lingua, Volume 234Author(s): (Source: Lingua)
Source: Lingua - January 19, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Pronunciation of Italian and English words by Japanese subjects of different ages: The results of an experiment
Publication date: Available online 14 January 2020Source: LinguaAuthor(s): Edoardo Lombardi VallauriAbstractThe paper reports an experiment aimed at verifying the performance in the pronunciation of foreign sequences (in Italian, English and invented words) by Japanese in preschool, school and adult age. The results show that progress through age, even for the same phonetic sequences, is greater in English words, suggesting that the word, rather than the phonetic sequence, is the language unit that speakers learn to pronounce correctly. It is proposed that there may be a minor disturbing role of the katakana syllabic writi...
Source: Lingua - January 15, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
