As children hear a novel verb in a NOUN-VERB-NOUN (i.e., NVN) structure, they generally infer that the verb is transitive, like the verb “hit” (Naigles, 1990; Yuan, Fisher, & Snedeker, 2012). However, the relationship between sentence structure and a verb’s transitivity status is not straightforward. Particularly, in typologically pro-drop languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, the object in a se...

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the prosodic encoding of topic and focus in Mandarin by examining disyllabic subject nouns elicited in four discourse contexts. These subject nouns also varied in terms of their tonal composition as well as the length of their embedding sentences. The central questions addressed are how prosodic effects of topic and focus differ from each othe...

Response is an effective tool for exercising power in humour, since it can make a person seem funny. In the same way, lack of response unfunny. this article I argue that failed jokes female skiing pundit on TV humourless and due to other interlocutors refraining from giving adequate responses. The material sports programme about cross-country Swedish Television. aim case study find out how exer...

the growth in the number and quality of businesses caused many positive results for societies. but it can potentially bring some unfavorable effects to their environment. although there issued many different definitions of social responsibility, there is lack of consensus among scholars about its definition. aside from its different and sometimes paradoxical definitions, corporate social capita...

Innovative new ventures (INVs) cope with the lack of legitimacy and liability newness that may hinder their likelihood survival. Those risks increase novelty introduced by INV. Radically INVs are ones have highest degree novelty, and, consequently, face risks. Understanding elements mechanisms sustain radically is paramount importance due to great benefits they bring society. This article explo...