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Exceptionally optional negative concord with Turkish neither...nor
This paper presents a novel account for the optionality of negative concord observed with neither...nor coordinations, in an otherwise strict...
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A corpus of Persian literary text
Persian poetry has profoundly affected all periods of Persian literature and the literature of other countries as well. It is a fundamental vehicle...
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Outlining Discursive Representations on Macau’s Gaming Industry at the Lexical Level
This chapter outlines the discursive representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry at the Lexical Level by describing top frequent single lexical words,...
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How Does Interpreter’s Intonation Affect the Pragmatics of Courtroom Questions? A Case Study of Chinese-English Court Interpreting
Intonation is an important paralinguistic feature hel** to convey the speaker’s intention. Court interpreting studies have revealed the impact of...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the topic of the book. It contextualises the study—the structure and organisation of film dialogues and embodied on-screen...
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Pausing and breathing while reading aloud: development from 2nd to 7th grade in French speaking children
Pauses when reading aloud play an essential role in reading and listening comprehension (for a review: Godde et al., 2020). Among the various types...
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On (Im)politeness
This chapter provides a comprehensive literature review on the concept of face, Goffman’s theoretical framework, and the study of (im)politeness,...
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It’s Not just Semantics
So far, we could say that the corpus of newspaper articles on sexual violence has been observed “from above” or at the surface. In other words, we...
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The role of heads and cyclicity in bracketing paradoxes in Armenian compounds
It is often argued that words have complex internal structure in terms of their morphology, phonology, and semantics. On the surface, Armenian...
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Emerging Patterns
The previous chapter discussed the most common collocates of rape across the entire 2008–2019 time frame, showing which themes were strongly anchored...
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On the Complexities of Interaction: An Introduction
Everyday social life is tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other. This book draws on the...
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C2SI corpus: a database of speech disorder productions to assess intelligibility and quality of life in head and neck cancers
Within the framework of the Carcinologic Speech Severity Index (C2SI) INCa Project, we collected a large database of French speech recordings aiming...
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Rhythm and Musicality in Baby Books
Reading aloud a picturebook to a baby is an auditory experience, mainly melodic and rhythmic, which unfolds over time. The psychiatrist Daniel Stern...
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How Many s in Wales? Performing a Welsh Accent on Twitter
Recent research on attitudes towards the Welsh English accent on Twitter (Durham, Durham and Morris (eds) in Sociolinguistics in Wales. Palgrave...
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The role of focus intonation in implicature computation: a comparison with only and also
The function of focus is to activate alternatives, and these activated alternatives are used to compute the corresponding inferences of an utterance....
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Accents and Dialects of English
According to Huddleston and Pullum (2002: 13), the term accent is used “for varieties of a language distinguished by pronunciation, opposing it to...
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Probabilistic Explanation in Legal Translation Studies
Recent years have witnessed a diversification of paradigms in legal translation studies. However, few studies have focused on the characteristics of...
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Natural Grammar
The theory of natural grammar views grammars as language specific semiotic systems that naturally symbolize semantics by structural assembly. The...