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Languages, Volume 8, Issue 1

March 2023 - 90 articles

Cover Story: Speech pauses between conversational turns are crucial for assessing conversation partners’ cognitive states; for example, speakers making longer pauses are regarded as less willing to grant requests. We tested in a rating experiment if the interpretation of pause length was mediated by the accent of speakers, in particular native vs. non-native accents. Participants judged non-native speakers to be equally willing to grant requests, irrespective of their inter-turn pause lengths, whereas native speakers making long pauses were regarded as less willing than those making short pauses. This indicates that listeners interpret long pauses by non-natives as the result of prolonged cognitive processing needed for planning an answer in a non-native language rather than of a lack of willingness. View this paper
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Articles (90)

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,524 Views
14 Pages

The aim of this contribution is to highlight the role and relevance of neurolinguistics accounts for second and third language syntactic acquisition/processing. This chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the field of experimental psychol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,394 Views
19 Pages

This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation and change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, and how social meaning plays a role in this variation. To do so, it examines the high degree o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,896 Views
28 Pages

An Experimental Investigation of Multiple Sluicing in Mandarin Chinese

  • Xue Bai,
  • Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez and
  • Daiko Takahashi

This paper examines multiple sluicing constructions in Mandarin Chinese (henceforth, MC) experimentally. The acceptability status of such constructions in MC is controversial, and the judgments reported in the previous literature vary. Obtaining expe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
8,176 Views
36 Pages

In this work, we will investigate hybridization, borrowing, and grammatical reorganization phenomena in the Arbëresh dialects of San Marzano (Apulia) and Vena di Maida (central Calabria). The data from the Arbëresh of S. Benedetto Ullano (n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,103 Views
19 Pages

Language learning involves linguistic and societal factors that interact to facilitate or hinder second language learning. Different contextual factors provide an opportunity to examine and understand the similarities and differences that occur among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,048 Views
17 Pages

Teacher Trainees’ Perspectives on Remote Instruction for Multilingual Learners of English

  • Kandace M. Hoppin,
  • Gregory Knollman,
  • Patricia Rice Doran and
  • Huili Hong

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a shift to virtual learning across many countries and school systems. It is worthwhile to examine the specific ways in which this shift is significant to teacher trainees preparing to work with multilingual learners (ML...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,752 Views
17 Pages

The Role Classifiers Play in Selecting the Referent of a Word

  • Weiyi Ma,
  • Peng Zhou and
  • Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

An important cue to the meaning of a new noun is its accompanying classifier. For example, in English, X in “a sheet of X” should refer to a broad, flat object. A classifier is required in Chinese to quantify nouns. Using children’s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,713 Views
15 Pages

With the rapid development of science and technology, many new concepts and terms appear, especially in English. Other languages try to express these concepts with words from their vocabulary. In Arabic, there are many ways to find a counterpart for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,284 Views
19 Pages

Three distinct anaphoric functions and one deictic function are, with fair confidence, associated with the Italian Pluperfect in the existing literature. In recent studies, it has been hypothesized that the Italian Pluperfect may also have an aoristi...

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Languages - ISSN 2226-471X