This article intended to investigate whether the gender-preferential linguistic elements found by Argomon, Koppel, Fine and Shimoni (2003) show the same gender-linked frequencies in applied linguistics research papers written by non-native speakers of English. In so doing, a sample of 32 articles from different journals was collected and the proportion of the targeted features to the whole numb...

The current study sought to compare the rhetorical moves and steps that native-English-speaking Iranian authors of research articles (RAs) employ in writing up ‘discussion’ sections their RAs. It was hypothesized latter group is not as proficient RA discussions former group. A total 66 (N=66) from three reputable international academic journals were sampled years 2009 2019. This corpus then ana...

This study examines the coda voicing effect in English on production of preceding vowel by comparing L1 and L2 speech. Particular attention is paid to how coda voicing contrast is encoded in temporal vs. spectral dimensions, how the effect interacts with information structure (with varying focus types), and how the use of information structure differs in L1 vs. L2. Both English (native) and Kor...