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Languages

Subject Areas: Linguistics and Language
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
ISSN: 2226-471X
SJR: 11

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Journal Article

Daco-Romanian Definite DPs at the Syntax-Phonology Interface

Isac, Daniela

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030067

In this paper I propose that the host of the definite suffix in Daco-Romanian languages like Modern Romanian, Old Romanian, Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian, and Aromanian (DacRom) is determined at PF, as a consequence of the conditions that apply to the Spell-Out of chains. The relevant chains...
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Isolating Terminology Layers in Complex Linguistic Environments: A Study about Waste Management

Cirillo, Nicola

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030068

Automatic term extraction aims at extracting terminological units from specialized corpora to assist terminographers in developing glossaries, thesauri, and termbases. Unfortunately, traditional methods often overlook the complex relation between terminologies of different subject fields that...
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Deaf Signers’ Processing of the Sentence: An Indicator of Their Specific Pathway to the Written Word?

Périni, Marie; Dadone, Adrien; Garcia, Brigitte

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030069

This article addresses the issue of access to the written word for deaf people whose main language is sign language. We question the status of sentence processing in the acquisition of a written language by deaf people, visual beings par excellence. This written language is both the written form...
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Utterance-Final Voice Quality in American English and Mexican Spanish Bilinguals

Duarte-Borquez, Claudia; Van Doren, Maxine; Garellek, Marc

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030070

We investigate utterance-final voice quality in bilinguals of English and Spanish, two languages which differ in the type of non-modal voice usually encountered at ends of utterances: American English often has phrase-final creak, whereas in Mexican Spanish, phrase-final voiced sounds are breathy...
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Automated Extraction and Analysis of Sentences under Production: A Theoretical Framework and Its Evaluation

Ulasik, Malgorzata Anna; Miletić, Aleksandra

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030071

Sentences are generally understood to be essential communicative units in writing that are built to express thoughts and meanings. Studying sentence production provides a valuable opportunity to shed new light on the writing process itself and on the underlying cognitive processes. Nevertheless,...
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Discrimination of Degrees of Foreign Accent across Different Speakers

Pérez-Ramón, Rubén

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030072

Second-language learners often encounter communication challenges due to a foreign accent (FA) in their speech, influenced by their native language (L1). This FA can affect rhythm, intonation, stress, and the segmental domain, which consists of individual language sounds. This study looks into...
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Trial-Level and Contiguous Syntactic Adaptation: A Common Domain-General Mechanism at Play?

Kuz, Varvara; Cai, Fangzhou; Chen, Keyue; Chen, Jiaxin; Qi, Xuzi; Veall, Clement; Zheng, Yuanqi; Xu, Zhengping; Santi, Andrea

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030073

Garden-path sentences generate processing difficulty due to a more preferred parse conflicting with incoming parsing information. A domain-general cognitive control mechanism has been argued to help identify and resolve these parsing conflicts. This cognitive control mechanism has been argued to...
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Beyond Bleeps and Bounds: The Role of Individual Differences in Understanding Taboo Language from TV Series in the L2

Pizarro Pedraza, Andrea; Suñer, Ferran; De Cock, Barbara

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030074

Streaming platforms have transformed series distribution and accessibility, with Spanish-language shows gaining immense popularity, notably “La casa de papel” (Money Heist). This series features a diverse cast of characters whose linguistic diversity extends to the use of taboo language. Previous...
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Languages—Update on the Aims and Scope

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030075

One year into the job as Editor-in-Chief of Languages, I am delighted to report that the journal has received its first Journal Impact Factor (0 [...]
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Toward a Universal Dependencies Treebank of Old English: Representing the Morphological Relatedness of Un-Derivatives

Martín Arista, Javier

2024 Languages

doi:10.3390/languages9030076

This article deals with one of the aspects involved in the compilation of a treebank of Old English within the framework of Universal Dependencies. More specifically, this study addresses the question of how to account for the remarkable degree of Old English morphological relatedness in a type...

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