Language Science

71 peer-reviewed research articles on linguistics and communication theory.

71 articles

May 27, 2026

New Speakers for Established Listeners: Multilingual Regimentation for the Global Listening Subject in Peru

The research investigates the dynamics of multilingualism in Peru, particularly how established listeners engage with new speakers of various languages.

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May 25, 2026

Object-mass nouns specify individuation lexically: Evidence from English and French

How does the syntax of a noun phrase influence its semantic interpretation?

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May 25, 2026

Sub-extracting out of the Icelandic *ABA problem

The investigation centers on the unexpected ABA patterns exhibited by Icelandic singular noun inflections, which deviate from the anticipated syncretic...

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May 25, 2026

Processing standard and expletive negation: An eye-tracking study on Italian temporal and causal clauses

The investigation centers on the nuanced phenomenon of Expletive Negation (EN), a type of negation that does not alter the truth conditions of the...

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May 21, 2026

“Singlish Has Grammar Too!”: Colonial Recursivity in the Construction of Multilingualism in Singapore

The exploration of multilingualism in Singapore reveals a crucial gap in the understanding of how colonial histories shape contemporary language practices.

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May 16, 2026

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

This research investigates the perceptions of American English influences, or Americanisms, within Nigerian English, a variety that has evolved through...

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May 8, 2026

When “passives” involve no A-movement: Rethinking Indonesian-type passives via East Javanese

The research conducted by a team studying the East Javanese dialect of Javanese, an Austronesian language, addresses a significant gap in the...

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May 8, 2026

Get rich quick: Why kids don't need Occam's Razor

The research conducted by a team exploring the phonological structure of Georgian addresses the question of how to effectively represent the natural...

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May 8, 2026

Backness Agreement in Consonant + Glide Onsets: Evidence from Mandarin

The research conducted by Xu (2025) investigates the phonological constraints governing consonant-glide (CG) onsets in Mandarin Chinese, addressing a...

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May 1, 2026

From Word to Sentence Embedding and beyond: Bridging the Gap in Text Representation Survey

In exploring the evolution of text representation, a comprehensive study from [ScienceDirect](https://doi.

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May 1, 2026

Reading Between the Lines: Emotion Classification using Sentence Transformers

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Apr 28, 2026

Guttural syneresis in Tigrinya and Tigre

The research conducted by a team studying the Ethiosemitic languages of Eritrea, specifically Tigrinya and Tigre, addresses the phonological phenomenon of...

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Apr 28, 2026

Compositional parsing in adjective-noun phrases: the role of adjective semantics

The research conducted by a team from the University of Maryland investigates how different types of adjectives—specifically intersective (e.

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Apr 28, 2026

Genitive alternation in possessives and beyond: morphological or structural variation?

The research paper investigates the phenomenon of genitive alternation in Standard Modern Greek, focusing on the syntactic and morphological distinctions...

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Apr 24, 2026

George Aaron Broadwell, The Timucua language: A text-based reference grammar. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2024. Pp. xvi, 476.

In "The Timucua Language: A Text-Based Reference Grammar," George Aaron Broadwell presents a comprehensive analysis of the Timucua language, which was historica...

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Apr 24, 2026

A large-scale investigation of vowel co-occurrence patterns in the world’s lexicons

The research conducted by Doucette et al.

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Apr 24, 2026

Competition and gradience: A representational account of suffix-induced accentuation in Tokyo Japanese

The research conducted by a team exploring the lexical accent system of Tokyo Japanese addresses the complex interplay of suffix-induced accentuation...

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Apr 24, 2026

Finding anchors in code-switching: How nouns guide online processing of nominals across three bilingual groups

The research conducted by Sedarous (2023) investigates the cognitive mechanisms underlying intrasentential code-switching among bilingual speakers,...

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Apr 20, 2026

Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants

This study, conducted by a team of sociolinguists, investigates the influence of perceived social threat on phonetic divergence among nonbinary...

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Apr 20, 2026

Ryan Nefdt, The philosophy of theoretical linguistics: A contemporary outlook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xii + 231.

In "The Revenge of the Methodological Moaners," Geoffrey K. Pullum critiques the prevailing methodologies in linguistic research, particularly those that priori...

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Apr 20, 2026

Revising and extending Gricean maxims: The TRICS-Principles

The research presented in this paper seeks to address the ongoing debates surrounding Grice’s maxims of conversation, particularly their interdependence...

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Apr 20, 2026

Object control verbs and syntactic causatives: Inflected infinitives as a cue to syntactic structure

The research presented in this paper investigates the syntactic and semantic similarities among three classes of causative verbs in European Portuguese...

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Apr 20, 2026

Syntactic predicates

The research article investigates the conceptualization of predicates in linguistics, focusing on the various interpretations and their implications for...

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Apr 20, 2026

The syntactic constraint on English auxiliary contraction

The research presented in this paper addresses a critical question regarding English auxiliary contraction (AC): what formal constraints govern the...

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Apr 20, 2026

On the rescuing of some-indefinites

The research conducted by a team including Dobrovie-Sorin and Ihsane investigates the distribution of Positive Polarity Items (PPIs) across languages,...

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Apr 20, 2026

Phonologization of cumulative phonetic length in Kashubian

The research conducted by a team examining the phonetic and phonological dynamics in the Kashubian language addresses the mechanisms of phonetically based...

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Apr 20, 2026

Active participles are (deverbal) adjectives

The research conducted by Bešlin (2023) investigates the syntactic and morphological properties of active participles in English, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian...

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Apr 20, 2026

The relation between head movement and periphrasis

The research presented by the authors investigates the relationship between synthetic and periphrastic verbal constructions across languages, specifically...

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Apr 13, 2026

Three arguments for abstraction in phonology

The research article presents a critical examination of the prevailing view that phonology is fundamentally substance-based, meaning that phonological...

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Apr 13, 2026

Two kinds of singular they: A usage-based model

The research presented in this article investigates the cognitive and pragmatic distinctions between two forms of the singular pronoun "they":...

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