The interest in modeling and analyzing human language with complex networks is on the
rise in recent years and a considerable body of research in this area has already been …

This study addresses whether there is anything special about learning a third language, as
compared to learning a second language, that results solely from the order of acquisition …

Linguists often classify languages into various types. In generative phonology, language
typology is usually translated into parameters, such as the parameter for trochaic vs. iambic …

Research in diachronic linguistics has shown that homonyms are often dispreferred in
language. This study proposes that this trend is mirrored in the difficulties that children …

This article explores the ideological selection of linguistic features as emblems. Building on
the notion of raciolinguistic enregisterment, it examines why the Cantonese tone system …

In this study, we utilized a mixture random effects model and pairwise comparisons to
conduct our analysis. Furthermore, we employed visualization techniques, specifically line …

Changes in word shapes in Mainland Southeast Asia are usually attributed to contact-
induced typological convergence. However, little attention has been paid to the role of …

Language Isolates explores this fascinating group of languages that surprisingly comprise a
third of the world's languages. Individual chapters written by experts on these languages …

Lexical tone is an important phonological property in tonal languages, but its encoding
process in speech production remains unclear. We conducted two electroencephalographic …

Phonological alternations pose challenges for models of spoken word recognition in how
surface information is mapped onto stored representations in the lexicon. In the current …