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Linguistics
Ivan Lacic
Summary: This paper examines five Croatian maximizers and their semantic differences through statistical analysis and multifactorial methods. The findings shed light on the interaction between these maximizers and adjectives.
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Asli Altinsoy, Ramazan Sertan Ozdemir, Sukru Torun
Summary: This study aimed to compare the speech fluency performance of people with stuttering, people with cluttering, and people with cluttering and stuttering with a fluent control group. The results indicated that individuals with cluttering and individuals with cluttering and stuttering have similar speech motor characteristics, while other features assessed by the tool can distinguish individuals with cluttering from those with cluttering and stuttering, individuals with stuttering, and the control group.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
(2024)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Mark Onslow, Robyn Lowe, Suzana Jelcic Jaksic, Nan Bernstein Ratner, Kristin Chmela, Valerie Lim, Stacey Sheedy
Summary: This paper documents the contents of the first module of the Fifth Croatia Stuttering Symposium in 2022, focusing on three treatments for early childhood stuttering supported by randomized controlled trial evidence. The Symposium used videos and clinical demonstrations to interpret the research findings and facilitate discussion on their application in clinical practice.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Conrad Perry, Rick Evertz, Marco Zorzi, Johannes C. Ziegler
Summary: The article discusses the advantages of computational cognitive models in accurately predicting empirical data and introduces a state-of-the-art technique to simplify complex models. It presents a study on the Connectionist Dual-Process model (CDP) of reading aloud and demonstrates that CDP performs well in predicting variance across different databases, outperforming previous models in the field.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
Review
Linguistics
Yasin Kargar, Milad Jalilian
Summary: This article provides a systematic review of how the brain processes language and the functions of white matter tracts related to language. It offers valuable guidance for neuroclinicians and neurosurgeons in diagnosing language impairments and planning treatments.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Jennifer M. Rodd
Summary: This paper discusses the rapid growth of online data collection in the behavioral sciences and the potential issues that can affect the quality of data in online experiments. The author provides checklists to help researchers improve the data quality and emphasizes three key aspects of experimental design. The author argues that ensuring high data quality for online experiments requires significant effort prior to data collection to maintain the credibility of the evidence base.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Linguistics
Dagmar Divjak, Hui Sun, Petar Milin
Summary: This study explores the feasibility of using Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as an indicator to assess implicit language knowledge, and finds that cardiovascular response can reflect the degree of grammatical errors. The results reveal the intricate relationship between physiology and cognition, and provide new possibilities for assessing language knowledge in natural and authentic settings.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Xi Chen, Diana Sidtis
Summary: This study investigates the ability of Mandarin-speaking individuals with PD to convey contrastive stress in production and perceive these contrasts in listening. Results show that individuals with PD have difficulty in producing contrastive stress, but their ability to perceive these contrasts is relatively preserved.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Xiangyang Zhang, Wenqi Cai, Min Dang, Rui Zhang, Xiaojuan Wang, Jianfeng Yang
Summary: This study investigates the brain mechanisms of sub-lexical semantic processing and its interaction with lexical-semantic processing in visual word reading. The results reveal the neural bases involved in these processes and provide insights for understanding semantic processing in reading.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Tala Noufi, Maor Zeev-Wolf
Summary: This study aimed to test the effect of left-hand muscle contractions on metaphor comprehension in adolescents, and compare the processing of conventional and novel metaphors between adolescents and adults. The results showed that left-hand muscle contractions enhanced metaphor comprehension, but over-activation of the right hemisphere decreased the ability to process unrelated expressions. Additionally, adolescents were more accurate in processing novel metaphors, possibly due to their reliance on coarse semantic coding.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Matthew Walenski, Thomas Sostarics, M. Marsel Mesulam, Cynthia K. Thompson
Summary: This study investigated adjective production in patients with different types of aphasia and healthy controls. The findings showed that agrammatic aphasia patients produced significantly fewer attributive adjectives compared to the control group, while other patient groups were similar to the control group. Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between the rate of producing attributive adjectives and impaired production of complex syntactic structure sentences in agrammatic aphasia patients. Analysis of the lexical characteristics of the produced adjectives revealed consistent patterns with the language profile of each group.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Vanessa Harwood, Adrian Garcia-Sierra, Raphael Dias, Emily Jelfs, Alisa Baron
Summary: This study investigates the phonological sensitivity to native and nonnative speech syllables and its relationship with English word reading abilities in 6-8 year-old monolingual English-speaking children. The results suggest that speech perception of native contrasts recorded in left temporal electrode sites is linked to English word reading abilities.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Adina Camelia Bleotu, Brian Dillon
Summary: This paper investigates the impact of distributional properties on agreement attraction in Romanian, specifically examining the effects of bare nouns and full determiner phrases. The results show that overt determiner phrases cause significantly more attraction than bare nouns, suggesting the presence of a cue-based retrieval mechanism for forming agreement dependencies. These findings highlight the sensitivity of agreement attraction to morphophonological cues in Romanian.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Linguistics
Mohan W. Gupta, Steven C. Pan, Timothy C. Rickard
Summary: This study reveals the existence of a confounding forward testing effect (FTE) in the test-first design but not in the mixed training design, through two experiments and analyses of different training phase task orderings. The predictions of the dual-memory model of test-enhanced learning are supported, and no evidence for proactive interference and reset of encoding hypotheses is found. However, the results are consistent with the strategy change and increasing effort hypotheses. Additionally, a novel and powerful individual differences effect of the FTE is identified through distribution analyses.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Linguistics
Mohamad El Haj, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonniere
Summary: This study assessed linguistic processing in patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) using pupillometry. The results showed that patients with bvFTD had smaller pupil size during verbal fluency tasks and counting compared to control participants. However, larger pupil size was observed during verbal fluency tasks compared to counting in both groups. Moreover, patients with bvFTD performed poorer in verbal fluency tasks compared to control participants.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2024)
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Linguistics
Vasilisa Pugacheva, Fritz Guenther
Summary: This study investigates the cognitive-semantic question of the words speakers use and produce to convey meaning. The results show that responses are semantically close to the targets, with existing words being closer than novel words and even novel compounds often closer than the targets' free associates. Additionally, other participants are more likely to guess the correct original word for responses closer to the original targets and for novel compound responses compared to existing word responses. This demonstrates that both existing and novel words can be accurately captured in a unified computational framework of the semantic mechanisms driving word choice.
JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE
(2024)
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Linguistics
Benjamin Weissman
Summary: Recent research has found that commitment is an important factor in theories of lying, stating that a speaker is considered to have lied only if they are committed to the false content in their speech. This study investigates the relationship between emoji, commitment, and lying through two experiments, and reveals that different emoji have varying levels of commitment. The results suggest that an emoji can be a lie, depending on the speaker's level of commitment to its meaning.
JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
(2024)
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Education & Educational Research
Corinne Maxwell-Reid, Kwok-chi Lau
Summary: This study investigates the difficulties encountered in teaching junior secondary science lessons through English in the predominantly Cantonese-speaking context of Hong Kong. The researchers, comprising an educational linguist and a science education specialist, utilized student questionnaires, teacher interviews, and classroom observation to identify these difficulties. They employed genre understandings based on systemic functional linguistics and knowledge of the science curriculum to investigate the issue. Analysis of lesson extracts, teaching materials, interviews, and questionnaires revealed the impact of teaching materials on coherence between curricular objectives and teacher discourse, particularly in terms of complex descriptions affecting student understanding of the lesson.
JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
(2024)
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Linguistics
Xixin Qiu, Yuanheng (Arthur) Wang, Edwin Appah Dartey, Minjin Kim
Summary: Recent critical inquiries in metadiscourse research question the functional inadequacy of a word-based lexical approach. This paper examines Interactional Metadiscourse in academic writing, focusing on hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mentions in a corpus of L1-English expert and L1-Chinese student writing in Agricultural Science. The study finds that part-genre significantly affects the use of these features for both writer groups, with L1-English experts using more hedges, while L2 students using more boosters and attitude markers. The paper concludes with implications for teaching metadiscourse and the importance of using discipline-specific corpora in disciplinary writing.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
Article
Linguistics
Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts
Summary: This study examines the rhetorical functions, image and text relations, as well as the skills and challenges involved in intentionally embedding graphical abstract (GA) composition in an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course, based on student composition and critical reflections on GAs, as well as qualitative and quantitative data collection from a survey and interview involving professors, young researchers (YRs) and students. The study also discusses the pedagogical implications that arise from this exploration.
ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES
(2024)
