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Alignment of two languages: The spreading of mouthings in Sign Language of the Netherlands
Sign Language of the Netherlands NGT mouthing prosody corpus linguistics bimodalism
2015/5/13
Mouthings and mouth gestures are omnipresent in Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT).Mouthings in NGT are mouth actions that have their origin in spoken Dutch, and are usually time aligned with the ...
Formats for other-initiation of repair across languages
typology conversation repair pragmatics pragmatic typology
2015/5/5
In conversation, people regularly deal with problems of speaking, hearing, and understanding. We report on a cross-linguistic investigation of the conversational structure of other-initiated repair (a...
Spatial terms across languages support near-optimal communication: Evidence from Peruvian Amazonia, and computational analyses
Spatial terms semantic universals informative communication language and thought semantic maps
2015/4/27
Why do languages have the categories they do? It has been argued that spatial terms in the world’s languages reflect categories that support highly informative communication, and that this accounts fo...
Compensation for vocal tract characteristics across native and non-native languages
vocal tract characteristics across native non-native languages
2015/4/27
Perceptual compensation for speaker vocal tract properties was investigated in four groups of listeners: native speakers of English and native speakers of Dutch, native speakers of Spanish with low pr...
Listeners Retune Phoneme Categories Across Languages
speech perception perceptual learning foreign accent second language listening
2015/4/24
Native listeners adapt to noncanonically produced speech by retuning phoneme boundaries by means of lexical knowledge. We asked whether a second language lexicon can also guide category retuning and w...
The Aslian language family, located in the Malay Peninsula and southern Thai Isthmus, consists of four distinct branches comprising some 18 languages. These languages predate the now dominant Malay an...
Prospects for e-grammars and endangered languages corpora
e-grammars endangered languages corpora
2015/4/21
This contribution explores the potentials of combining corpora of language use data with language description in e-grammars (or digital grammars). We present three directions of ongoing research and d...
Tools from evolutionary biology shed new light on the diversification of languages
evolutionary biology diversification of languages
2015/4/21
Computational methods have revolutionized evolutionary biology. In this paper we explore the impact these methods are now having on our understanding of the forces that both affect the diversification...
Pronouns and the (Preliminary) Classification of Papuan languages
Pronouns Papuan Languages Trans New Guinea Historical Linguistics Quantitative Linguistics Language Classi
2015/4/20
A series of articles by Ross (1995, 2001, 2005) use pronoun similarities to gauge relatedness between various Papuan microgroups,arguing that the similarities could not be the result of chance or borr...
Abstract Profiles of Structural Stability Point to Universal Tendencies, Family-Specific Factors, and Ancient Connections between Languages
Structural Stability Point Universal Tendencies Family-Specific Factors Ancient Connections Languages
2015/4/20
Language is the best example of a cultural evolutionary system, able to retain a phylogenetic signal over many thousands of years. The temporal stability (conservatism) of basic vocabulary is relative...
Phonologically determined asymmetries in vocabulary structure across languages
Phonologically determined asymmetries vocabulary structure across languages
2015/4/20
Studies of spoken-word recognition have revealed that competition from embedded words differs in strength as a function of where in the carrier word the embedded word is found and have further shown e...
Demonstratives and non-embedded nominalisations in three Papuan languages of the Timor-Alor-Pantar family
non-embedded nominalisations Demonstratives
2015/4/10
This paper explores the use of demonstratives in non-embedded clausal nominalisations. We present data and analysis from three Papuan languages of the
Timor-Alor-Pantar family in south-east Indonesi...
The grammar of exchange: a comparative study of reciprocal constructions across languages
exchange reciprocal constructions
2015/4/10
Cultures are built on social exchange. Most languages have dedicated grammatical machinery
for expressing this. To demonstrate that statistical methods can also be applied to grammatical
meaning, ...
Does Space Structure Spatial Language? Linguistic Encoding of Space in Sign Languages
iconicity language modality spatial language locative expression sign language
2015/4/10
Spatial language in signed language is assumed to be shaped
by affordances of the visual-spatial modality – where the use
of the hands and space allow the mapping of spatial
relationships in an ...
Language-independent processing in speech perception: Identification of English intervocalic consonants by speakers of eight European languages
Consonant identification Non-native Cross-language Noise
2015/4/9
Processing speech in a non-native language requires listeners to cope with influences from their first language and to overcome the effects of limited exposure and experience. These factors may be par...