The process of acquiring one’s first language (L1) is often described as leading to endpoint outcomes by early adulthood. This talk will present phonetic evidence of continued L1 malleability, which suggests that individual linguistic systems develop and change over the lifespan in response to new language experience. In particular, I will discuss cases of phonetic […]

O objetivo desta roda de conversa é discutir três redes de pesquisa na área da Educação Linguística, que se pautam por perspectivas críticas e se realizam nas esferas regional, nacional e internacional.

Abordagem formal de fenômenos pragmáticos com atenção para a pressuposição e o papel do contexto.

The aim of this talk is to show that missing object constructions (“null objects”, “object gaps”) in a single language, as well as across languages, is better understood as deriving via the application of different operations in different languages and do not constitute a homogeneous phenomenon (pro, or “variable”, or “ellipsis”). In other words, there […]

Language comprehension is mainly carried out by specialized cognitive mechanisms that are language-specific and are not engaged in other high-level cognitive functions. Additionally, much research has found that domain-general resources—e.g., executive function, working memory, or inhibition—also contribute comprehension. However, prior studies are overwhelmingly based on cleverly designed artificial tasks, which do not mimic comprehension “in […]

A realidade dialetal do Português Brasileiro é alvo de interesse e observação de linguistas, filólogos e gramáticos desde o século XIX, quando surgiram os primeiros comentários acerca das peculiaridades da língua em face do Português Europeu (CARDOSO, 2010). A aplicação do método geolinguístico, porém, postergou-se para a segunda metade do século XX. O decreto 30.643, […]

Dinka (Nilotic, South Sudan) has been cited as a challenge for item-based approaches to morphology, since its inflectional system is primarily expressed through changes to the root (e.g. Aronoff & Fudeman 2011:54; Inkelas 2014:72; Arkadiev & Klamer 2018:450), including lengthening, shortening, raising, lowering, as well as alternations in voice and tone. Number morphology on nouns […]

Languages are powerful solutions to the complex coordination problems that arise between social agents. They provide stable, shared expectations about how the words we say correspond to the beliefs and intentions in our heads. However, to handle an ever-changing environment with new things to talk about and new partners to talk with, linguistic knowledge must […]

The rise of gesture studies as its own field of inquiry has had a number of spin-off effects. For the field of linguistics, the implications have been both methodological and theoretical. Cognitive linguists initially fulfilled their claims to a usage-based approach through analyses of written corpora. What new questions of language use do we confront […]

Ethnicity has been a long-standing factor in the study of language variation, and there has been great interest in the role of ethnic minorities in language change. In Australia, we are in an ideal position to address this thanks to foundational work conducted by Barbara Horvath in the 1970s and 1980s, on the English of […]