Linguistics

This thesis is a study of Sound Pattern Processing (SPP) and it resulted in- phonological processes in the utterances of pre-teens in select unknown and known words of L1 (Malayalam), and three L2s (English, Arabic and Hindi). The complexity of phonological patterns in these words is studied from the perspectives of the theory of RCVP -Radical CV Phonology (Hulst, 2020), autosegmental (Goldsmith, 1976), and lexical phonology (Mohanan, 1982). The study is concerned with issues like how young spea

In the context of the ever-growing popularity of the use of English as a lingua franca, learning languages other than English poses specific motivational challenges, particularly in post-Brexit Great Britain. In England, the uptake of modern foreign languages (MFL) has experienced a forty year continual decline. To positively impact language learner motivation and, hopefully, increase willingness among learners to continue with language study beyond the compulsory phase, it is vital to target le

This dissertation provides an exploration of Moore’s Paradox, which is the philosophical puzzle (noted first by G.E. Moore) posed by sentences of the form “p, but I don’t believe that p” and “p, but I believe that ~p”. Such sentences seem infelicitous to assert and irrational to believe, even though they are meaningful and consistent – therefore, their infelicity or irrationality constitutes a philosophical puzzle and invites theorizing concerning the limits of coherent speech and thought. The d

This article argues that Amorite exhibits substantial structural affinity with Classical Arabic and that, in several phonological, morphological, and grammatical features, Arabic provides closer corre - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This study presents a reproducible framework for quantitative cross-linguistic comparison that integrates Python-based natural language processing and R-based statistical modeling. Using a corpus of 1 - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

We present MLFD-5, a multilingual dataset of lexical, syntactic, and semantic features extracted from 1,860 Wikipedia articles in English, Chinese, Spanish, French, and German. Each document is annota - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

My previous studies have demonstrated that current AI systems can readily assist users in performing questionable research practices (QRPs) when prompted to do so. This paper shifts the focus from doc - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Traditional macro-comparative linguistics has historically struggled with stochastic acoustic noise and subjective lexical alignments. This study resolves these vulnerabilities through an automated, d - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Not every language that appears to be an ergative language actually is one. However, if it is a language with ergative alignment, the absolutive case is the case of the grammatical subject, independen - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This paper discusses loanwords in the Kanien’kéha (a.k.a. Mohawk) language in the dialect of the Kahnawà:ke community south of Montreal. This dialect is termed Kahnawa’kéha. The main contribution of t - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Certain structural domains restrict syntactic movement, a phenomenon termed the island effect. Although traditionally considered a class of syntactic constraints, island effects have been attributed b - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

This doctoral dissertation deals with the syntax (and semantics) of German experiencer-object verbs like _gefallen_ ‘to appeal to’ or _freuen_ ‘to please’, which realise the experiencer of a psycholog - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

Allama Nasir Hunzai’s works present the suffix cited as -ik in descriptive grammars under the label tabʿīz, called kāf-e tabʿīz in Burushaski Jawahir Paray. This documentary comparison examines three - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive