Digital communication in the post-truth era creates conditions for lexical innovation, pragmatic refunctionalization, and semantic change, particularly in languages experiencing intensive contact with English. This study examines selected lexical and...
Generative linguistics typically treats grammaticality as a binary matter, attributing the gradient effects frequently observed in acceptability judgment experiments to performance factors rather than to the grammar. Yet no specific performance accou...
This study investigates the pragmatic functions of kafū in Jordanian Arabic, focusing on how a conventionally positive evaluative expression acquires different pragmatic interpretations in naturally occurring interactions. Drawing on Speech Act...
Jordanian Arabic uses a single definite article, al-, across functions that other languages split across multiple morphological forms. This paper introduces the Jordanian Arabic Definite Article Corpus (JADAC), the first spontaneous-speech corpus doc...
The previous literature has distinguished between two types of bias in polar questions: “original bias”, which reflects the speaker’s prior belief regarding the truth of the answers, and “contextual bias”, which conveys...
This paper investigates person-number agreement with coordinate subjects in Russian, focusing on cases where the conjuncts differ in person. While normative grammars and descriptive studies describe only resolved agreement and closest conjunct agreem...
The Malavedan language is a severely endangered Dravidian tribal tongue spoken in the Kollam, Kottayam, and Pathanamthitta districts of Kerala, India. While historically overshadowed by its dominant neighbour, Malayalam, current field documentation (...
Chinese languages offer multiple ways to form a polar question. In this paper, we examine five Sinitic languages: Mandarin, Shanghainese, Changsha Xiang, Cantonese, and Taiwanese Southern Min, and using a panel of tests, we test all the available for...
Two generally agreed upon characteristics of presuppositions are projection and backgroundedness. Yet, presuppositions sometimes fail to project. To derive the necessary local interpretations, standard semantic local accommodation accounts posit an o...
There is a prevailing assumption in the at-issueness literature that utterances express exactly one content (usually a proposition) that is at-issue, with any other contents being not-at-issue. This article examines this assumption critically, asking...
This study investigates the closure-to-vowel ratio (CVR) as a primary, rate-normalized temporal cue to voicing in Arabic stops, within the framework of the Hyper–Hypo theory of speech adaptation and Articulatory Phonology. A sample of 30 Arabic...
This convergent mixed-methods study investigates international learners’ perceptions and academic outcomes associated with the strategic use of English as an instrumental language in Turkish as a foreign/second language (TFL) instruction. Combi...
Recent research in computational linguistics has found that most long-distance linguistic dependencies are tier-based strictly 2-local (TSL-2) over their respective representations, providing a precise characterization of blocking elements in phonolo...
This study examines whether gender is associated with both the frequency of codeswitching (CS) and the functions that switching performs in Maghreb Arabic (MA)–French–English trilingual peer talk. Gender-focused studies of CS have more of...
While previous studies of Mongolian regional dialects have consistently classified the Khövsgöl Buryat language under the category of “Buryat dialects”, no empirical linguistic example has been documented in academic literature....
This article examines the role of text types in the diffusion and conditioning of two syntactic changes in the history of Spanish from a comparative variationist perspective. It focuses, first, on the spread of prepositional variants in finite comple...
Perceptual development of English intonation remains challenging for Iranian EFL learners due to systematic L1–L2 prosodic differences. Adopting a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control-group design with a sequential mixed-methods componen...
This paper argues that not-at-issue contents are best analyzed as proposals—similarly, but not identical to, assertions of at-issue contents. This view is justified on theoretical as well as empirical grounds. From a theoretical perspective, we...
Lexical inferencing (LIF) draws on multiple knowledge sources (KSs), but little is known about how the same multilingual readers report using these sources across different reading tasks. This exploratory study examined 31 Chinese–English&ndash...
When speakers encounter errors or misunderstandings in others’ talk, how they respond carries both pragmatic and interpersonal consequences that vary systematically across languages and cultures, yet this area remains underexplored in cross-cul...
This article presents a longitudinal case study of want-constructions in an English–Russian bilingual child whose early language was characterized by prolonged pronoun reversal (i.e., using you for self-reference). The analysis focuses on want-...
Developing Japanese writing ability as a second language (L2) requires learners to simultaneously manage linguistic, cognitive, and metacognitive resources. Although the Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) has been widely employed to access writers’ cog...
Official month names in Estonian and other Finnic languages (except for Finnish), as well as in many other languages, originate from Latin. In addition to these, folk names are also used; these date back to long before the emergence of the Christian...
The phonetic realization of word-initial stops used to diverge between Austrian and Swiss Standard German, and neither pattern closely aligned with that of German Standard German (GSG). Recently, however, it has been reported to be undergoing change...
In this paper, we discuss topicalization comparatives, an underrecognized subtype within the Heinean event-schema framework. Drawing on data from Nyanja, Malay, and Sinitic languages, the analysis corroborates the existence of a construction marked b...
This paper investigates how Mandarin-speaking children acquire event culmination in causative change-of-state verbs, focusing on the contrast between resultative verb compounds (RVCs; e.g., shā-sǐ ‘kill-dead’), which entail culm...
The article provides an overview of the introduction of German loanwords into the Estonian language from the 13th to the 20th century, as well as their spread in Standard Estonian and dialects. German has functioned as a donor language in both its Lo...
This study examines resultativity in Kazakh as a linguistic marker of nativeness by comparing diasporic speakers exposed to the social pressures of dominant languages with speakers in Kazakhstan, where the ongoing revitalization of Kazakh is reshapin...
Since its intensification in the early 2000s, Saudization, perceived as Saudi Arabia’s labor nationalization policy, has profoundly shaped the socio-economic and socio-political discourse in the Arab world. In spite of the extensive policy and...
Production and perception of speech develop in tandem during the first year of life, shaping one another in ways that have only recently been experimentally tested. Canonical babbling, which emerges robustly between 6 and 8 months across languages, i...
The present article will discuss the diachronic background of the six Estonian proto-dialects: South Estonian, Coastal Estonian (proper), Vaivara (Coastal) Estonian, East Estonian, Northeast Estonian, and (remaining) North Estonian. Since the author...
South Estonian has traditionally been classified in Estonian dialectology as a dialect group of Estonian, whereas historical-comparative linguistics has increasingly recognised it as an early-diverging Finnic language. At the same time, its contempor...
The article investigates children’s agent-first bias in sentence comprehension. Agent-first bias refers to the phenomenon in which children (or adults) tend to assign the agent role to the first noun phrase (NP) in a sentence. Previous studies...
This study examines reading opportunities and practices in the Võro and Seto languages in the context of ongoing language shift and limited intergenerational transmission. Literacy in local languages is important for language revitalisation. M...
This study analyses the production of voiceless and voiced plosives (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) in both read and spontaneous speech produced by L1 Polish, L2 English, L3 Norwegian multilingual learners and native control speakers. The goal is to examine whe...
This paper argues that nominal domains in Mandarin Chinese instantiate phases and exhibit the characteristic asymmetry between edge and complement. Evidence comes from both binding asymmetry and raising asymmetry. A possessor can bind the logophor zi...
This study examines children’s language use in spontaneous playground interaction in Kazakhstan, focusing on how language choice varies across play activities and how these practices relate to family language orientations. The study uses non-pa...
Greeting and farewell formulae are highly conventionalized routines that index social relations, regional norms and situational formality. This paper investigates pragmatic variation in greetings and farewells in rural Austria, focusing on age, regio...
Technical intern trainees (TITs) preparing to depart for Japan study Japanese within a compressed four- to six-month pre-departure period, during which they must acquire language skills for workplace communication, daily life, and social adaptation....
Discourse-information structure has been found to shape the realization of verb argument structure. This study investigates the effects of grammatical roles, information status, and animacy of verb arguments on verb argument realization in the speech...
This case study investigates specific language phenomena and dominance patterns among second-generation speakers of Sri Lankan origin in Naples within the framework of the HELLO Campania Project. While second generations are typically assumed to be d...
This quantitative study explores divergent beliefs about word order in American Sign Language (ASL) within the U.S. Deaf community. Although the academic literature commonly characterizes ASL as following a Subject–Verb–Object (SVO) struc...
According to recent estimates, France is home to approximately 700,000 individuals of Turkish origin, encompassing first-, second-, and third-generation immigrants. Scholars have extensively investigated the language practices, maintenance, and shift...
We propose a new account of the change from -Vsis, -Vzis to -Vi̯s in Modern Lesbian, as well as of related changes in other Northern Greek dialects, arguing that they are special cases of the loss of unstressed high vowels. Our analysis depends...
The Greek dialects of Lesvos and Adrianople (present-day Edirne) during the time of the Ottoman Empire have much in common. Both are northern dialects and show considerable influence from Turkish; moreover, both were documented in the early 20th cent...
This article analyses how three leading female figures of the European far right—Marine Le Pen (France), Giorgia Meloni (Italy), and Alice Weidel (Germany)—construct populist discourse on X (formerly Twitter) during recent high-stakes ele...
This paper focuses on historical and new linguistic minorities in educational contexts in Italy. It argues that, despite increasing multilingualism, the Italian educational system remains shaped by a persistent monolingual ideology. Drawing on data f...
Language vitality scales are commonly used in language documentation, yet assumptions behind labels such as “threatened” and “endangered” are often taken for granted. This study adopts a computational-based approach to discipl...
Research on Russian as a heritage language has played a central role in the development of heritage language studies [...]
Can listeners whose native language lacks contrastive lexical stress identify stress in an unfamiliar language? We addressed this question with native Mandarin Chinese listeners, whose L1 marks lexical contrasts with tone, and European Portuguese (EP...
