Languages, Volume 10, Issue 2

This study explores the transformation of the ethno-linguistic identity of Kazakhstani student youth within the multilingual context of Kazakhstan, considering the impact of the country’s language policies. Our research analyzes language choice...

Cross-linguistic activation has been frequently demonstrated in bilinguals through eye movements using the visual world paradigm. In this study, we explored if such activations could operate below thresholds of awareness, at least in the visual modal...

Children’s consonant cluster productions in typical and atypical phonological development were investigated for different languages reporting developmental productions that are universal, language-specific, and/or child-specific. These patterns...

This article presents a study examining the vocabulary knowledge of English as an additional language (EAL) learners in two international schools in Japan in relation to the vocabulary profiles of the textbooks they are required to use in the classro...

The present paper investigates the link between perception and production in the laryngeal phonology of multilingual speakers, focusing on non-contrastive segments and the dynamic aspect of these processes. Fourteen L1 Hungarian, L2 English, and L3 S...

While transitive clauses with a subject and object have long been a fundamental focus of grammatical analyses across languages of the world, more recently, it has become apparent that naturally occurring language-in-use is in fact overwhelmingly intr...

This paper presents a corpus-based synchronic investigation of three Turkish mental–cognitive verbs in the present tense: san ‘guess, believe’ and zannet ‘suppose, assume’ (in the first person) and bil ‘know’...

Upper Kuskokwim (Athabaskan, Alaska) is a polysynthetic language with morphologically complex verbs involving pronominal affixes denoting clause arguments. One goal of this paper is to see how clauses in this kind of language are organized and operat...

Prior research has shown that people can predict the syntactic features of an upcoming word during sentence comprehension. However, evidence for morphosyntactic predictive processing has been limited to gender or case marking in a small subset of Ind...

This Special Issue highlights the pivotal role of Spanish as a linguistic and cultural force in the United States, emphasizing its relevance in shaping identities, fostering community connections, and navigating complex sociopolitical landscapes [...]

An important set of sound changes affected the South Bantu languages through the impact of front vowels on following consonants, most notably under the form of the class 5 nominal prefix *i-. These consonant changes are well known, but their extent h...

The field of language testing and assessment (LTA) has evolved significantly [...]

We carried out four timed judgement experiments investigating whether bilingual speakers differ in their sensitivity to different kinds of filler–gap dependency violation in L1 German and L2 English. Using a within-subjects design and parallel...

Mixed-effects models have become indispensable tools for analyzing data in second language acquisition (SLA) research. This tutorial offers a step-by-step guide to conducting mixed-effects analyses for simple designs using the gamlj package in jamovi...

This work examines the grammatical properties of lại and nữa in Vietnamese, both of which can express the repetition of an event. It has been observed that different syntactic positions of lại result in different readings, as noted...

This study explores translanguaging as a flexible and adaptive strategy for heritage language transmission within multilingual families residing in Cyprus, Estonia, and Sweden. Using a qualitative approach, the research examines family language polic...

Considering dialect areas as cultural areas has a long tradition in dialectology. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, researchers explored correspondences between dialect variation and other elements of everyday culture such as traditio...