The present study takes a variationist perspective to explore the varietal repertoires of adult
learners of German as a second language (L2), that is, their variable use of standard …

Research in the past few decades has claimed that high or rising fundamental frequency
(F0) signals a set of meanings related to the expression of politeness (eg, deference …

The main aim of this book is to contribute to our understanding of the acquisition of second
language intonation, by comparing Czech learners of Spanish with German learners of …

For years, linguists have noted that intonation patterns and discourse markers encode
similar pragmatic meanings across languages. The present study investigates whether a …

Gesture and prosody are considered to be important precursors in early language
development. In the present study, we ask whether those cues play a similar role later in …

In the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics, research on the acquisition of
sociolinguistic competence in the second language is growing quickly, yet comparatively …

In constructionist approaches, constructions are defined as pairings of phonological,
morphological and syntactic form, and semantic, pragmatic or discursive meaning. However …

This paper jointly considers syntactic, semantic, and phonological/phonetic factors in
approaching an understanding of BIN, a remote past marker in African American English …

While it is well known that prosodic features are central in the conveyance of pragmatic
meaning across languages, developmental research has assessed a narrow set of …

Linguists tend to underestimate their educational and societal role, but linguistics matters.
Therefore, this article is a plea for linguists to act accordingly and to fulfill their important role …