Experimental studies of interactive language use have shed light on the cognitive and interpersonal processes that shape conversation; corpora are the emergent products of these processes. I will survey studies that focus on under-modelled aspects of interactive language use, including the processing of spontaneous speech and disfluencies; metalinguistic displays such as hedges; interactive pro...

This squib discusses metalinguistic modification, expressives, domain modification, hypallage, and conjunctive modification within verb phrase idioms. The examples presented here show that non-combining idioms, to use terminology based on that of Nunberg, Sag & Wasow 1994, allow for modifiers on their internal constituents, but only in certain circumstances. This observation is shown to be deri...

This article overviews the research on the complex relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development and the important implications of this relationship for bilingual education. Recent studies are discussed that examine the cognitive development in bilingual children with regard to metalinguistic awareness, concept formation, and analogical reasoning. A case is made for additive bilin...

This paper examines the question of cognitive status of syllable as a linguistic unit. The experiment was conceived in the objective to test, in a metalinguistic task of counting the syllables, put to French speaking subjects, whether the syllable is a mere methodological concept adopted in linguistic descriptions or whether there is a cognitive reality behind it. Working with filtered stimuli ...

This paper describes the ways in which Mayan identities are ideologically constructed through language practices. It explores language ideologies based on the analysis of metalinguistic commentaries and code switching incidents in Momostenango, a K’iche’ Maya town in Guatemala. This study demonstrates how the K’iche’ Mayan language serves as an icon that portrays and as an index that marks Maya...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 18 / Special Issue 02 / April 2015, pp 227 235 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000552, Published online: 21 November 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000552 How to cite this article: YLVA FALK, CHRISTINA LINDQVIST and CAMILLA BARDEL (2015). The role of L1 explicit metalinguistic knowledge in L3 oral production at ...

Flexible boundary-condition methods couple an isolated defect to bulk through the bulk lattice Green's function. Direct computation of the lattice Green's function requires projecting out the singular subspace of uniform displacements and forces for the infinite lattice. We calculate the convergence rates for elastically isotropic and anisotropic cases for three different techniques: relative d...

The study examined two questions: (1) do the greater phonological awareness skills of billinguals affect reading performance; (2) to what extent do the orthographic characteristics of a language influence reading performance and how does this interact with the effects of phonological awareness. We estimated phonological metalinguistic abilities and reading measures in three groups of first grad...

Specific language impairment (SLI) has traditionally been characterized as a deficit of structural language (specifically grammar), with relative strengths in pragmatics. In this study, comprehensive assessment of production, comprehension, and metalinguistic judgment of referring expressions revealed that children with SLI have weaknesses in both structural and pragmatic language skills relati...

In this paper, methods for identification and delimitation of idiomatic expressions in large Web corpora are presented. The proposed methods are based on the observation that idiomatic expressions are sometimes accompanied by metalinguistic expressions, e.g. the word “proverbial”, the expression “as they say” or quotation marks. Even though the frequency of such idiom-related metalinguistic mar...