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Loanword Adaptation in Japanese Kansai Dialect
Hattori, Yuki ( 2021-09 )This study examines the variations of loanword abbreviations (clippings) in one of the most historical dialects in Japan: Kansai dialect. Much like native Japanese words, regional variations can be observed in loanword ... -
Gender in Japanese Youth Language
Cao, Yuning ( 2021-09 )The current study discusses the gender aspect of Japanese Youth Language (abbreviated as "YL" thereafter) and focuses on real-life data. Specifically, it explores how YL is perceived differently between genders from the ... -
Languages and Cultures in Action: Snippets of Interactions from Singapore
Luke, Kang-kwong ( 2021-09 )The city-state of Singapore is known for its linguistic and cultural diversity, with a community made up of people from a variety of cultural traditions and an education system that promotes plurilingualism in English, ... -
Referential and Non-referential (Im)politeness: The Use of Honorifics in Face-attacking Acts in a Japanese Company's Orientation Meeting
Cook, Haruko Minegishi ( 2021-09 )Speakers of honorific languages can linguistically express politeness/impoliteness referentially through the propositional content and/or nonreferentially through the presence or absence of honorifics. What is problematic ... -
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Wh-words in East Asian Languages: Intonation and Meaning
Yun, Jiwon ( 2021-09 )Wh-words in East Asian languages are ambiguous between interrogative and indefinite readings (e.g., shei in Chinese, dare in Japanese, nwukwu in Korean can all appear in phrases that indicate either 'who' or 'someone'). ... -
Tone Sandhi in Mono/Polysyllabic Single Words in Shanghai Chinese
Lyu, Jun ( 2021-09 )This study examines tone sandhi in mono/polysyllabic words in Shanghai Chinese, with a specific focus on tonal redistribution domains. The goal of this study is to examine the tonal redistribution patterns in quadrisyllabic ... -
How Native Japanese Speakers Solve Ambiguous Relative Clauses in Their L1 and L2: Evidence from the Self-paced Reading of Japanese and English
Ito, Kanae; Koizumi, Masatoshi; Kiyama, Sachiko ( 2021-09 )The present study combined off- and on-line tasks to demonstrate how L1 Japanese late intermediate learners of L2 English specify an antecedent of a relative clause (RC) in L1 Japanese and L2 English. When an RC has two ... -
The Narrative Functions of Perfective Auxiliaries in Early Heian Kundokubun Texts
Bundschuh, John ( 2021-09 )Kundokubun is a linguistic style of early spoken Japanese adapted for translating texts written in Sinitic script. The earliest examples of kundokubun are Buddhist texts rendered visually via a system of morphosyntactic ... -
Deriving Separable Verbs in Cantonese
Yip, Ka-Fai; Lee, Tommy Tsz-Ming; Chan, Sheila Shu-Laam ( 2021-09 )A number of Cantonese disyllabic verbs allow verbal suffixes to occupy an "infixal" position and they are known as separable verbs. Notably, separable verbs are not only observed with verb-object (VO) type verbs but also ... -
A Preliminary Survey of Linguistic Areas in East Asia Based on Phonological Features
Joo, Ian; Hsu, Yu-Yin ( 2021-09 )Previous studies of linguistic areas have often adopted a mainly top-down approach, by first hypothesizing the existence of a linguistic area and then seeking the common linguistic features of that hypothetical area in ... -
Style Shifting as a Measurement of Linguistic and Cultural Improvement during Education Abroad in Japan
Tobaru, Hiromi ( 2021-09 )The current study investigates Japanese style shifting as an additional measurement of linguistic and cultural competence during education abroad (EdA) in Japan. Seven undergraduate students in a Midwest university in the ... -
Dialect and Watershed Distributions in Shaanxi Province and the Jiang-Huai Area in China
Wang, Ke ( 2021-09 )Inspired by several dialect geography studies, the present study aimed to determine whether there is a connection between geographical features and dialect distributions, with a specific focus on whether the distribution ... -
Bilingual Intonation in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children's Sentence-Final Particles
Lee, Jonathan Him Nok; Lai, Regine Yee King; Matthews, Stephen; Yip, Virginia ( 2021-09 )This corpus-based study investigates the intonation of Cantonese-English bilingual children. Few studies have explored the prosodic aspect of simultaneous acquisition of a tonal and a non-tonal language. We examine the ...