In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
I consider three conditions to explain the emergence of scientific philosophy in Austrian thought at the turn of the century, concentrating on Vienna and Graz as distinct centers of philosophical development: (1) An outlook that seeks philosophical truth
Lockhart examines the role of the Danish clergy in defending the military intervention of King Christian IV in the Thirty Years' War. The loyal clergy, with royal sanction, acted as the authors and distributors of propaganda in favour of the war, a war w
This article examines the development of finite complement clauses in the speech of seven English-speaking children aged 1;2 to 5;2. It shows that in most of children's complex utterances that seem to include a finite complement clause, the main clause d
This article compares verbal expressions for mental activity across a wide range of languages, extracting thereby a general framework for 'folk models of thinking' that can be related to Whitehead's processual analysis of cognition. The core concepts e
From ionian Greek, used by Hippocrates, to scientific English, some key-moments.
This paper introduces the Lannang Corpus (LanCorp), a public 375,000-word collection of raw and transcribed recordings of Lannang languages spoken in metropolitan Manila, which have been annotated with part-of-speech tags and linked to 40 types of socioli
Aims and Objectives: This study investigates the use of definite noun phrases involving demonstratives in adolescent and adult monolingually raised and heritage speakers of Greek, Russian, and Turkish with the following research questions: (1) Do heritage
This study investigated the influence of language - first language (L1) versus second language (L2) - on the experience and the expression of the emotion of guilt. Fifty-two Greek - Spanish bilinguals read two moral scenarios that induced guilt in their L
Because word problems present mathematical information through a scenario, they are language-intensive and require mathematical and reading comprehension skills to solve them. In addition, they are linguistically complex, which makes them challenging for
To what extent can statistical language knowledge account for the effects of world knowledge in language comprehension? We address this question by focusing on a core aspect of language understanding: pronoun resolution. While existing studies suggest tha
Sinitic languages are known for their SVO order and mostly isolating morphology. This study addresses eleven languages of four different areas in Hunan, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Qinghai/Gansu provinces in China that possess SOV order and developed a postnomin
Willingness to communicate (WTC) in second language (L2) is an individual difference factor affected by various learner-internal and learner-external variables. There has been increasing research attention on the examination of WTC with positive emotions,
This theoretical article explores how Land-based education could help decolonize language education, starting from the case of dual language bilingual education (DLBE) in the United States. We invoke other scholars' metaphor of basements versus boutiques
This article offers theoretical and programmatic reflection on how the impact of culture on language change should be accounted for from a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammatical perspective, with a focus on how cultural change can cause
Vocabulary is an integral part of language and constitutes an important indicator of foreign language learners' communicative competence. However, vocabulary assessment is a complex task due to the multiple dimensions involved in lexical knowledge. The l