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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 2

February 2024 - 33 articles

Cover Story: This paper examines the relevance of the sentence concept to the understanding of three types of implicitness (presupposition, conversational implicatures, irony). Our experimental protocol involved 105 children (aged 6 to 11) and 82 adults who were asked to read short texts composed of a context about some characters and a target sentence conveying one of the three implicit contents. After reading, children and adults had to answer a comprehension yes-no question and indicate the segments from the text that helped them answer the question. Results showed a difference between the three types of implicitness, with presupposition being detected and understood at a subsentential level, whereas implicatures and irony come under extrasentential level requiring the context to be taken into account. View this paper
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Articles (33)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,774 Views
20 Pages

Preserving Heritage Language in Turkish Families in the USA

  • Seyma Inan,
  • Aslihan Nisanci and
  • Yvette Harris

6 February 2024

A dearth of research concerning Turkish immigrant families in the United States exists, prompting this study’s focus. This research aims to illuminate the influence of parental language attitudes among Turkish immigrants on their motivation to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,817 Views
18 Pages

Forensic Audio and Voice Analysis: TV Series Reinforce False Popular Beliefs

  • Emmanuel Ferragne,
  • Anne Guyot Talbot,
  • Margaux Cecchini,
  • Martine Beugnet,
  • Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun,
  • Laurianne Georgeton,
  • Christophe Stécoli,
  • Jean-François Bonastre and
  • Corinne Fredouille

2 February 2024

People’s perception of forensic evidence is greatly influenced by crime TV series. The analysis of the human voice is no exception. However, unlike fingerprints—with which fiction and popular beliefs draw an incorrect parallel—the h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,323 Views
22 Pages

1 February 2024

This study investigates the intonation contours of neutral yes–no interrogatives produced by simultaneous bilingual children in their two native languages. Previous studies have shown prosodic transfer from one language to another, either from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,539 Views
15 Pages

31 January 2024

Over the last three years, we have engaged in the development of a web-based mobile application called Classmoto that uses the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) to measure cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement in near real-time, with minimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,160 Views
19 Pages

30 January 2024

This project explores the synchronic variation of participle forms in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Despite general systematicity, the language maintains many historically irregular participles, which often compete with regularized variants. The languag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,979 Views
22 Pages

30 January 2024

Different methods and sources of information have been proposed in the literature to study the processing of language and, in particular, instances of formulaic language such as multiword units. This article explores the possibility of using pause pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,710 Views
20 Pages

29 January 2024

Acquiring a consistent accent and targeting a native standard like Received Pronunciation (RP) or General American (GA) are prerequisites for French learners who plan to become English teachers in France. Reliable methods to assess learners’ pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,793 Views
12 Pages

29 January 2024

In this paper, I argue that the phenomenon of complementizer agreement in West Germanic and the distribution of DPs in German can be given a common explanation in terms of an approach in which context values are not freely assigned via an interpretiv...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,470 Views
9 Pages

29 January 2024

The last decades have seen a renewed interest in the algorithms relating syntactic and prosodic structure since the ban on recursivity that had been prevalent in phonology for a long time was relaxed; see for instance Selkirk (2011) and Elfner (2012)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,419 Views
24 Pages

Validation in Forensic Text Comparison: Issues and Opportunities

  • Shunichi Ishihara,
  • Sonia Kulkarni,
  • Michael Carne,
  • Sabine Ehrhardt and
  • Andrea Nini

29 January 2024

It has been argued in forensic science that the empirical validation of a forensic inference system or methodology should be performed by replicating the conditions of the case under investigation and using data relevant to the case. This study demon...

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