This paper is part of a larger study that examines crosslinguistic perception of sad and happy speech when the information is transmitted semantically (linguistic) or prosodically (affective). Here we examine American English and Japanese speakers’ ability to perceive emotions in Japanese utterances. It is expected that native subjects will be better at perceiving emotion expressed semantically...

We investigated using the LDC English/Chinese bilingual wordlists for English-Chinese cross language retrieval. It is shown that the Chinese-to-English wordlist can be considered as both a phrase and word dictionary, and is preferable to the English-to-Chinese version in terms of phrase translation and word translation selection. Additional techniques such as frequency-based term selection, tra...

recent research in the area of second language acquisition has proposed that bilinguals and l2 learners show syntactic indeterminacy when syntactic properties interface with other cognitive domains. most of the research in this area has focused on the pragmatic use of syntactic properties while the investigation of compliance with a grammatical rule at syntax-related interfaces has not received...

This article discusses the screen translation, into English and Chinese, of some names in Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films. In particular, drawing onomastic examples from six fantasies, this study provides insights naming practices strategies adopted by translators languages distinct linguistic families. The analysis sorted four categories yields following results: (a) each translator used diff ...

This paper has the goal of investigating the nature of membership within the category ‘passive’ and cross-linguistic comparison of constructions, ‘passive’ and otherwise. Topicality measures were collected from the Uppsala Corpus of Russian for passive and active uses of the Russian verbs pisat’/napisat’ ‘to write,’ davat’/dat’ ‘to give,’ and zabyvat’/zabyt’ ‘to forget.’ Croft’s (2001) notion o...