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‘Doing Cornishness’ in the English Periphery: Embodying Ideology Through Anglo-Cornish Dialect Lexis
In the current chapter, we explore the social meaning of onomasiological variation of the concept lunch box among males in the Cornish town of...
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Lexical Facility: Bringing Size and Speed Together
This chapter introduces the lexical facility construct in depth. The approach characterizes vocabulary size and processing skill dimensions as...
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The Place of Human Language in the Animal World
Animals across a broad range of species convey meaning through their communicative behavior. The meaning we convey in our use of human language must...
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Introspective Verbal Reports: Think-Alouds and Stimulated Recall
Verbal reports (think-alouds and stimulated recalls) have been used in first and second language research for decades by researchers of various...
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Reading prosody development in Spanish children
Reading prosody is considered one of the essential markers of reading fluency, alongside accuracy and speed. The aim of our study was to investigate...
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Relations between reading and writing: a longitudinal examination from grades 3 to 6
We investigated developmental trajectories of and the relation between reading and writing (word reading, reading comprehension, spelling, and...
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The lexicography of Greek
In this chapter, the current state of Modern Greek lexicography and its perspectives are examined. In the first part, the Greek language is outlined...
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Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style
This paper develops a formal model of the subtle meaning differences that exist between grammatical alternatives in socially conditioned variation...
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Annotations in the Nordic Dialect Corpus
In this chapter I focus on annotation in the Nordic Dialect Corpus, a dialect corpus that consists of dialectal speech from five closely related...
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Exploring Spoken English Learner Language Using Corpora
As second language (L2) corpus studies expand into their third decade, innovations in computational technology and corpus creation have facilitated...
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Learning Morphological Constructions
The great variability of morphological structure across languages makes it uncontroversial that morphology is learned. Yet, morphology presents...
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Develo** Linguistic Theories Using Annotated Corpora
This paper aims to carve out a place for corpus research within theoretical linguistics and psycholinguistics. We argue that annotated corpora...
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How Do Discourse and Social Change Drive Each Other?
This chapter addresses the question ‘How do discourse and social change drive each other?’ It focuses on going beyond ‘pattern-seeking’ and explores...
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Projecting adjectives in Chinese
Chinese has the comparative morpheme and the positive morpheme, both of which project in syntax. The covert comparative morpheme is the covert...
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Historical, Religious and Genetic Context of Tangwang
Before analyzing the Tangwang linguistic data, we must introduce its ethnical context. Tangwang is composed of two major families, Tang and Wang,...
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Hong Kong English: An Overview
Wong offers a much-need summary of the sociocultural background of Hong Kong English (HKE) and the profile of its structural features. Focussing on...
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Loanword-specific grammar in Japanese adaptations of Korean words and phrases
This paper documents present-day Japanese loanwords from Korean and contributes to the debate on input structure in loanword phonology. It argues...
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Traumatic Brain Injury
Children and adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are at high risk for impairments in pragmatic language and social communication more broadly....
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A tool for automatic transcription of intonation: Eti_ToBI a ToBI transcriber for Spanish and Catalan
This article presents Eti_ToBI, a tool that automatically labels intonational events in Spanish and Catalan utterances according to the Sp_ToBI and...
