Abstract
Applied anthropology, Social Policy
1501. Cortis, N., Blaxland, M., & Charlesworth, S. (2024). Care theft: Family impacts of employer control in Australia’s retail industry.
Care theft helps make visible the ways employment practices strip resources for care from working people and shift risk to low-income families and communities.
1502. Croy, I., Heller, C., Akello, G., Anjum, A., . . . Butovskaya, M. (2024). COVID-19 and social distancing: A cross-cultural study of interpersonal distance preferences and touch behaviors before and during the pandemic.
Participants reported a higher incidence of interpersonal touch behaviors during than before the pandemic.
1503. Dickson, E., Redclift, V., & Rajina, F. (2024). Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state.
While transnationalism and citizenship are often analyzed separately, they are in fact deeply intertwined.
1504. Hajek, K. (2024). Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy.
Traditional family loses its role as a normative reference point and is increasingly framed as a production site of human capital.
1505. Hernes, V., & Staver, A.B. (2024). Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The government chose not to make temporary exemptions from economic requirements for permanent residence or family reunification.
1506. Lau, J., Huang, Y.-H.C., Cai, Q., Li, J., . . . Liu, R. (2024). Self-transcendence: A cross-cultural study with democracy in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Self-transcendence had a negative relationship with people’s confidence in their own government, especially in less democratic societies.
1507. Liu, Y. (2024). Home advantage and its influencing factors in FIFA World Cup Asian qualification.
Altitude, referee bias, crowd and cultural dimensions were not significant influencing factors for home advantage.
1508. Maguire, C.A. (2024). Artification and decolonization at the Musée d’Art Africain de l’IFAN, Dakar.
The IFAN museum’s renovation should be read into debates around what it means to decolonize the museum.
1509. Mills, C., & Pring, J. (2024). Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK’s social security system.
We analyze how deaths related to the benefits system are an outcome of slow violence.
1510. Monro, S., Wall, S.S., & Wood, K. (2024). Intersex equality, diversity and inclusion and social policy: Silences, absences, and erasures in Ireland and the UK.
There is a pressing need for social policy work around intersex issues and for reform to support intersex people’s equality, diversity, and inclusion.
1511. Østerud, K.L., & Anvik, C.H. (2024). ‘It’s not really Michael who wears me out, it’s the system’: The hidden work of coordinating care for a disabled child.
Coordination work should be better recognized in social policy design for these families to provide adequate services.
1512. Zimmerman, S.J. (2024). Militarization and gender-based violence in French colonial and contemporary Sahelian Africa.
France and foreign African soldiers are not a constant in Sahelian histories of militarization and gendered-based violence.
Arts (Dance, folklore, graphic arts, music)
1513. Akinrinlola, T., & Farinde, R.O. (2024). A discursive construction of self in selected songs by Azeez Fashola (aka Naira Marley).
Apart from the danceable beats that garnish his lyrics, Naira Marley also articulates burning societal issues.
1514. Balaji, D., & Thenmozhi, M. (2024). Exploring diasporic interdependence: A comparative analysis of literary and cinematic narratives in Jhumpa Lahiri’s
We uncover thematic convergence with narrative disparities between a novel and its cinematic interpretation.
1515. Bester, L., & Munro, M. (2024). Training strategies towards performing emotions on film: An integrated approach.
South African film actors prepare their portrayal of emotion as part of their performance scores in isolation.
1516. Danso, A. (2024). Restoration or destruction? Independent film productions and the Ghanaian video-film industry.
Effective cultural policies and professional training are significant in guiding and shaping the production of films.
1517. Drakoulaki, K., Anagnostopoulou, C., Guasti, M.T., Tillmann, B., & Varlokosta, S. (2024). Situating language and music research in a domain-specific versus domain-general framework: A review of theoretical and empirical data.
Domain-specific approaches theoretically and experimentally describe aspects of language and music processing.
1518. Gana, E.T., & Abubakar, A. (2024). Performing Facekuerade to navigate internally displaced persons desolation in the performance of Eliagwu Ameh’s
The deliberate aesthetic use of mask in the performance especially by the antagonist aided in enhancing and consolidating the meanings intended in the performance text.
1519. Gbogi, E. (2024). Ears to the ground: Realness, decolonial meta-rap, and the language debate in Nigerian hip-hop.
Realness means staying true to oneself; reppin’ one’s hood; production styles such as boom bap; cadence, delivery, and flow.
1520. Julius-Adeoye, ‘R.J., Omoruyi, A.E., Babarinde, D.M., & Akpor-Robaro, M.O.M. (2024). Nigerian film industry’s socio-economic context: Different waves of feature film making in Nigeria From 1970 to 2024.
Information technology, digital satellite television, and pay-per-view online video streaming has increased the economic viability of the Nigerian film industry.
1521. Mark, T.G. (2024). Audience and the transformation of performance in African theatre through
While Adefila’s audience model serves as a base, it oversimplifies audience experience, overlooks distant audience agency, and focuses on religious performances.
1522. Mohapanele, K., & Odhav, K. (2024). The role of community radio in promoting youth employment in North-West Province, South Africa: The case of Mahikeng FM.
Community radio in collaboration with various stakeholders can have a significant role in enhancing youth experiences.
1523. Nikoi, N.K. (2024). Language, authenticity, and hiplife music in Accra.
Indigenization becomes central to how some Ghanaian performers want their music and identity to circulate globally.
1524. Orji, B.E. (2024). Carnival and Afikpo Njenje-Masquerade: Examining an indigenous tradition in a postmodernist parade performance.
The core artistic mix of the masquerades–masks, songs, drumming, loud and animated dances, opulent and elaborate costuming–are indigenous art forms.
1525. Seda, O., & Rapoo, C. (2024). Shifting sands of the past and the present in drama of the New South Africa: Neil Coppen’s
Nadia Davids and Neil Coppen use the past and the present both literally and metaphorically to craft intriguing contemporary dramas.
1526. Stander, D. (2024). Surfacing woman-consciousness in Reza de Wet’s
I make a case for De Wet’s optimism regarding the artistic and psychological self-actualization that her protagonist achieves.
1527. Tolmay, A.S., & Tolmay, R.A. (2024). The utilisation of semiotics to mitigate viewer sensitivity.
Semiotics is the study of systems and principles that people develop to make sense of the social world around them.
1528. Vurayai, S. (2024). Disparagement humour: A hermeneutic study of satire on women in one African university.
I recommend the censorship of jokes that discriminate against other demographic groups in society.
Cultural Ecology
1529. Dagne, H., Assefa, E., & Teferi, E. (2024). Mapping and quantifying land degradation in the Omo-Gibe River Basin, South-Western Ethiopia.
Land management strategies should focus on severely degraded areas to achieve sustainable agriculture and hydroelectric energy production.
1530. Dong, R., Dong, B.-C., Fu, Q.-Y., Yang, Q., . . . van Kleunen, M. (2024). Cultivated alien plants with high invasion potential are more likely to be traded online in China.
Naturalized noninvasive and invasive taxa were frequently offered as seeds by online nurseries.
1531. Hu, L.-S., & Dong, Y.-W. (2024). Multiple genetic sources facilitate the northward range expansion of an intertidal oyster along China’s coast.
Genetic diversity, direction and strength of gene flow, and population structure all revealed that the LS and ZS oyster populations were the genetic sources for the study area.
1532. Liu, X., Man, X., Chen, M., Zhao, C., . . . Qu, B. (2024). Transgenerational plasticity in morphological characteristics and biomass of the invasive plant
Intergenerational transmission plasticity is of great significance for understanding the invasion process, mechanism, and prevention of invasive plants.
1533. Melese, M., & Gashure, S. (2024). Assessing landslide susceptibility using geospatial technology in Bonga town, southwestern Ethiopia.
Distance to the road, distance to the stream, elevation, and aspect were the most important factors for the occurrence of landslides.
1534. Ning, Z., Cui, B., Chen, C., Xie, T., . . . Bai, J. (2024). Tidal channel meanders serve as stepping-stones to facilitate cordgrass landward spread by creating invasion windows.
The meandering geomorphic structures of tidal channels could act as stepping-stones to significantly facilitate the landward invasion of Spartina alterniflora.
1535. Nyamekye, K.A, Afram, M.K., & Wireko-Gyebi, R.S. (2024). The effects of the synergy of community and government management practices on forest reserves in Ghana: The case of Mpameso forest.
Challenges included a lack of collaboration between chiefs and the forestry department in the district.
1536. Shan, L., Oduor, A.M.O., Huang, W., & Liu, Y. (2024). Nutrient enrichment promotes invasion success of alien plants via increased growth and suppression of chemical defenses.
Large-scale efforts to reduce nutrient enrichment of invaded habitats may help to control future invasiveness of target alien plant species.
1537. Soressa, T., & Gebre-Egziabher, T. (2024). Hydroelectric power dam-induced land use land cover change in Ethiopia, the case of AMerti-Nashe dams Horo Guduru Wollega Zone.
Hydropower development in the area needs strategic planning on how to minimize land use land cover change impacts.
1538. Wang, C., Xu, M., Zhang, J., & Zhou, X. (2024). High-latitude invasion and environmental adaptability of the freshwater mussel
Controlling early-stage veligers by altering water temperature, pH, and food size might effectively control the establishment of further L. fortunei colonies.
1539. Wang, Y.-J., Liu, Y.-Y., Chen, D., Du, D.-L., . . . Yu, F.-H. (2024). Clonal functional traits favor the invasive success of alien plants into native communities.
Clonal functional traits should be considered to efficiently restore degraded communities heavily invaded by alien clonal plants.
1540. Xia, Z., Gu, J., Wen, Y., Cao, X., . . . Zhan, A. (2024). eDNA-based detection reveals invasion risks of a biofouling bivalve in the world’s largest water diversion project.
We find an elevated invasion risk of golden mussels in the sampled canals in warm months, highlighting the critical period for spread and, possibly, management.
1541. Xin, Y., Yang, Z., Du, Y., Cui, R., . . . Liu, X. (2024). Vulnerability of protected areas to future climate change, land use modification, and biological invasions in China.
Wildlife and wetland protected areas are predicted to mainly experience climate change, and high land use anthropogenic modifications.
Economics (Theory, technology, political economy, colonialism, development)
1542. Ayaz, A., & Mughal, M. (2024). Farm size and productivity: The role of family labor.
The association of farm size with both yield and total factor productivity turns positive when we measure family labor in terms of market wage rate.
1543. Bulte, E., Miguel, J.D.N., & Anissa, B.P. (2024). Competition on agricultural markets and quality of smallholder supply: The role of relational contracting and input provision by traders.
When local markets become more competitive, fewer farmers are included in relational contracting with traders.
1544. Chatterjee, S., & Poddar, P. (2024). Women’s empowerment and intimate partner violence: Evidence from a multidimensional policy in India.
Women reported lesser intimate partner violence and controlling behavior on account of the empowerment intervention.
1545. Chong, A., & Velásquez, D. (2024). Does trade liberalization foster intimate partner violence?
We observe a significant increase in intimate partner violence relative to less vulnerable districts.
1546. Fuentes, O., Lafortune, J., Riutort, J., Tessada, J., & Villatoro, F. (2024). Personalized information as a tool to improve pension savings: Results from a randomized control trial in Chile.
Heterogeneity analysis suggests that the updating of priors by information recipients played an important role.
1547. Hoy, C., McKenzie, L., & Sinning, M. (2024). Improving tax compliance without increasing revenue: Evidence from population-wide randomized controlled trials in Papua New Guinea.
Taxpayers who face the lowest cost of compliance are the most likely to respond to a nudge.
1548. Kjelsrud, A., Mitra, S., & Moene, K. (2024). Wheels of power: Can free bicycles for schoolgirls free their mothers?
We find a strong empowerment effect on older female family members.
1549. Molina, O., María, D.S., & Yamada, G. (2024). Study for nothing? Gender and access to higher education in a developing country.
Boys and girls exhibit similar skill endowments toward the end of their secondary education, but different access to higher education.
1550. Molina-Vera, A., & Oosterbeek, H. (2024). The effect of monthly cash transfers during 5 years on households’ wealth.
Women who receive the transfer are less likely to be married.
1551. Santoro, F. (2024). Income tax payers are not all the same: A behavioral letter experiment in Eswatini.
They nudged more than 20,000 income tax payers with behaviorally informed mailings, building on deterrence, facilitation, and trust paradigms.
1552. Xie, V.W. (2024). Heterogeneous firms under regional temperature shocks: Exit and reallocation, with evidence from Indonesia.
Climate change affects firms of different initial productivity and how various margins of firm-level adjustment could mitigate such effects.
Ethnohistory
1553. Allina, E. (2024). Unimaginable community: Watchwords and Frelimo’s abandoned nationalism in independence-era Mozambique.
Frelimo abandoned nationalism, exchanging it for an idea of national community people could more easily imagine.
1554. Asiedu-Acquah, E. (2024). Engaging Africa and the world: Student internationalism and politics in Ghana, circa 1966–1979.
The pan-African and global imaginary that characterized student politics encouraged engagement explores Ghanaian and African student internationalism.
1555. Chatterjee, E. (2024). Late acceleration: The Indian emergency and the early 1970s energy crisis.
For India, that energy crisis did not begin with the famous Arab oil embargo of 1973, but with a climate-food-energy emergency.
1556. Gatt, F., & Gay, C. (2023). ‘Re-living the early days’: Memory, childhood and self-indigenization, North Melbourne, 1934-1935.
The adult employment of childhood memories is a particularly powerful mode of erasure and self-indigenization.
1557. Guldi, J. (2024). The revolution in text mining for historical analysis is here.
The knowledge accessible through text does not exhaust in any way the full repository of artifacts that historians use.
1558. Huber, V. (2024). Reading: The project of universal literacy.
We can see how the fields of population history and information history may be intertwined when thinking about globalizing publics.
1559. Keese, A. (2024). Between land reform and postcolonial frustration: Understanding the social roots of local opposition to the PAIGC/PAICV in Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 1975–91.
Resettlement schemes, a failed agrarian reform, and regime violence to achieve that reform caused unrest.
1560. LeBlanc, Z. (2024). More than keywords: Histories of decolonization and digitized newspapers.
Experimental digital history projects could use digitized newspapers with new digital interfaces or text and data mining.
1561. Mading, S.J.B., & Aleu, A.G. (2024). The religious motivation in raise and collapse of El-Mahdiyya government from 1880-1898, and its effect on the modern Sudan: Sudanese religious conflicts.
We analyze the impact of the El-Mahdiyya movement, both positive and negative, on modern Sudanese governments.
1562. Mark-Thiesen, C. (2024). Black American agricultural experts and the vernacularization of American science in Liberia prior to decolonization in Africa.
Black American agricultural scientists advised the Liberian government on how to grow surplus crops.
1563. Milford, I. (2024). Listening: Radio and its unintended publics.
The history of radio is also a history of the limits of globalization, of the failure of technological solutions, and of inequality.
1564. Sengupta, M., & Bharadwaj, J. (2023). Empire remembered: The intimate economy of tea in Assam and the making of ‘Chameli Memsaab.’
The polysemy of colonial memories reflects the multiplicity of intersubjective exchanges within a community.
1565. Sisira, R.T. (2024). Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: Where the Arab and African worlds collide.
I detail the inconsistencies in early colonial policy and its role in creating the Northern Sudanese hegemony.
1566. Vale, P. (2024). Between economic nationalism and liberalization: Ideas of development and the neoliberal moment in Mobutu’s Congo, 1965–74.
Early notions of Mobutist development should be understood as a kind of “worldmaking,” emerging from an anti-colonial ideology.
1567. Webster, A. (2024). Water and history in Southern Africa.
European empires used water to enclose and dispossess African land and to build hydropolitical colonial orders.
1568. Wilkinson, C. (2024). Out of the shadowlands: The digitization of early Indian newspapers.
Early Indian newspapers exemplify the unique challenges posed by the fragmentary, multilingual remains of colonial newspapers.
1569. Wyss, M. (2024). Neo-Imperial Cold War? Biafra’s Franco-African arms triangle.
During the Nigerian Civil War, France became the main supplier of military assistance to the secessionist Biafra.
Kinship (Family organization, marriage)
1570. Akdoğan, N., & Kuşdil, M.E. (2024). The effects of intermarriages versus intramarriages on intergroup relationships among Kurdish tribes.
Social identity acquired through marriage affects one’s perception and attitude towards members of that identity positively.
1571. Amarante, V., Rossel, C., & Scalese, F. (2024). Housework and earnings: Intrahousehold evidence from Latin America.
Increases in women’s absolute earnings are related to decreases in the hours women devote to housework.
1572. Armao, E., & Anagnostaki, L. (2024). Attachment parenting in Greece: A ‘mothers’ only’ affair?
The main themes were mothers as absolutely dedicated caregivers, mothers as the ‘parenting leaders’, overwhelmed mothers, and isolated fathers.
1573. Athamneh, S. (2024). Working-class Palestinian mothers in Israel: Agency, habitus, and maternal responsibility.
Mothers’ agency enables change within the spaces of institutionalized structures such as school and welfare services.
1574. Brini, E., & Zanasi, F. (2024). (Grand)childlessness and depression across men and women’s stages of later life.
While mental health does not seem to relate to family status per se, it could be crucial when accounting for the entire individual life course.
1575. Daniels, D. (2022). Unusual categories can be stable: The case of Proto-Sogeram kin terms.
Polysemy and referential overlap among kin terms are diachronically stable, even when they are typologically unusual.
1576. Ereky-Stevens, K., Melhuish, E., Gardiner, J., & Barnes, J. (2024). Individual, family and neighbourhood factors related to life satisfaction and perceived discrimination among low-income, non-immigrant mothers in seven European countries.
Lack of resources in multiple dimensions of social exclusion were linked to our well-being measures, including objective life condition variables (e.g., material deprivation and poor neighborhood quality).
1577. Olotuah, D.E., Cavlan, G.I., & Forson, C. (2024). Contextualizing the work-family experiences of women in the Nigerian banking industry.
Women demonstrated the ability to redefine femininity and womanhood and reject constraints that confine them.
1578. Onay, Ö. (2024). Living the clash within: Secular/conservative divide of immigrant Turkish parents on the identity formations of British Turks.
British Turks understand the limits of the certainty of parental ideologies and values and therefore embrace more fragmented and pluralized selves.
1579. Petren, R.E., Ferraro, A.J., & Pinto, E. (2024). Pre-separation family relationships and post-separation involvement among nonresident fathers in the United States.
Coparenting support and unmarried parent status were associated with greater father responsibility.
1580. Piotrowski, K., Naude, L., Sanna, K., Szramka-Pawlak, B., . . . Dzielińska, M. (2024). Perceptions of parenting among parents who regret having a child: A mixed-methods study.
Regretting parents experienced more severe childhood abuse and neglect; had more mental health problems; and were less agreeable.
1581. Rahilly, E. (2024). Gender-open grandparenting: An exploratory study.
Factors included their initial apprehensions, their efforts with gender-neutral language, and their mediating roles with others.
Medical anthropology
1582. Ezomike, U.O., Nwangwu, E.I., Chukwu, I.S., Aliozor, S.C., . . . Ekenze, S.O. (2024). Trends in childhood intussusception in a Nigerian tertiary hospital.
Preoperative utilization of ultrasonography significantly increased while mean duration of admission reduced significantly.
1583. Kosec, K., & Shemyakina, O.N. (2024). Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic.
Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food rather than increased income from sale of production.
1584. Mavuka, A., Dambiranwa, C., & Matanga, A.A. (2024). Working difficultly hard: Complexities of medical social work within multi-professional settings in Zimbabwe.
Medical social workers face the challenges of power dynamics, high caseloads, lack of resources, and professional mistrust.
1585. Mihaylova, A., Kristina, K., Kasnakova, P., Gueorguiev, S., . . . Parahuleva, N. (2024). Curosurf surfactant application on preterm babies with respiratory complications-health-economic benefits.
The medicinal product is expensive, but effective from the aspect of short-term therapeutic results.
1586. Musuguri, J.N., & Makuu, M.J. (2024). Medical social work roles, inter-professional collaborative practice and factors impeding practice in hospital settings: A literature review.
Medical social workers perform different roles in the hospital settings, but they are not understood by health practitioners.
1587. Ndegwa, S., Tucci, D., Lemons, J., Murila, F., . . . Ayugi, J. (2024). Newborn and infant hearing screening for early detection of hearing loss in Nairobi, Kenya.
Universal newborn and infant hearing screening programs is essential for early detection and intervention for hearing loss.
1588. Obembe, T.A., Bosede, A.O., Ariyo, O., Adeniji, F.I.P., . . . Adebayo, A.M. (2024). Nutritional status of school children in South-West Nigeria: Inferences from a national homegrown school feeding programme.
The subjects from private schools seem to present better nutritional status.
1589. Pan, F. (2024). A multi-dimensional comparison of L1 and L2 medical research articles.
The L1-English sections were consistently more narrative and overtly argumentative than the Chinese-L1 sections.
1590. Park, S.H., Kim, C.W., Kim, M.K., & Lee, S.-H. (2024). Empathy in clinical performance examinations: Medical students’ use of empathic statements in interaction with standardized patients.
Functions of empathic statements can vary according to the specific demands of interaction in different sequential contexts.
1591. Saidu, A., & Rajandran, K. (2024). A multimodal analysis of Nigerian public health awareness posters.
The pictures in the posters perform an ‘exemplification function’ in logico-semantic relations.
1592. Sutton, B. (2024). Abortion rights in the crosshairs: A transnational perspective on resistance strategies.
There is a need for a transnational defense of reproductive rights, considering the role of the U.S. in global politics.
Minorities (Ethnicity, class differentials, sex roles)
1593. Awcock, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2024). Palimpsests of trans rights: Trans-positive stickers and the contestations of transphobia in public space.
Stickers offer public expressions of allyship and communicate political solidarity across social justice movements and marginalized communities.
1594. Carbone, B.J.L. (2024). An unlikely coalition to defend the nation and banish “gender ideology” from Brazilian schools.
I see the preservation of the masculinist national identity that denies any form of structural inequality and critical thinking.
1595. Chen, P.J. (2024). Queer feminist assemblages against far-right anti- “Anti-Discrimination Law” in South Korea.
Queer feminist assemblage provides creative ways to articulate the controversies, with the alliance and lived experiences of minorities.
1596. Dian, D. (2024). Lala activists in dark times: Queer feminist resistance to the cyber-nationalist attacks in China.
Chinese lala activists’ friendship-based alliances provide a valuable strategy under intensifying cyber-nationalism and state censorship.
1597. Dodson, D. (2024). Amazons among us: Reflections on creating the heroines we need now.
I emphasize aspects of queerness and gender non-conformity in the figurative sculptures through iconographical details.
1598. Evbuomwan, L., Mbaka, C.M., Ngonso, B.F., Egielewa, P.E., & Imarhobobhor, L. (2024). Knowledge and attitude of civil servants towards COVID-19 vaccine: Media role in fostering acceptance and hesitancy.
Factors for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy were vaccine safety, incomplete protection and lack of trust in the government.
1599. Ikeorji, C.R., & Warria, A. (2024). Caregiving practices for older persons in Africa: Changing trends and implications for transformative social work.
Scholars advocate for a paradigm shift towards a more robust and integrative system of care.
1600. Lamble, S. (2024). Confronting complex alliances: Situating Britain’s gender critical politics within the wider transnational anti-gender movement.
I argue for a context-specific analysis of the British gender-critical movement which is attentive to its divergent political orientations.
1601. Rédai, D. (2024). Lesbian resistance through fairytales. The story of a children’s book clashing with an authoritarian anti-gender regime in Hungary.
I discuss the impacts of ideologically based intrusions of state control and the ongoing global media attention on Labrisz Lesbian Association.
1602. Vivas, G.C. (2024). The “Free Speech Bus”: Making “gender ideology” appear through media and performance.
I show the importance of fostering a transfeminist anti-fascism to fight gender ideology.
Political structure and process, Law
1603. Abboud, E., Ajwang, F., & Lugano, G. (2024). Social media and politics as usual? Exploring the role of social media in the 2022 Kenyan presidential election.
A complex media and electoral landscape incentivized candidates to adopt a segmentation strategy online.
1604. Abebe, Y., & Mulugeta, M.F. (2024). Armed and disarmed in Eritrea: The regional dimension of DDR in post-2018 Ethiopia.
The promise of regional stability through the Ethiopian-Eritrean reproachment was central to the armed groups participation in the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration processes.
1605. Cheeseman, N., Kanyinga, K., Lynch, G., & Willis, J. (2024). Has Kenya democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections.
Politicians seek to mobilize support and stress the independence and vibrancy of civil society and the media.
1606. Chome, N., & Willis, J. (2024). Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections.
We bring the literature on money debt in Africa into dialogue with work on electoral clientelism.
1607. Chukwudi, C.E., Bello, M.A., Apeloko, D.O., & Olawunmi, K. (2024). Social media application within organisational productivity in a democratic setting: Evidence from the public sector in Nigeria.
To ensure democracy’s success, organizations should implement close monitoring of social media and the protection of people’s rights.
1608. Czuba, K. (2024). Electoral contestation, goods provision, and construction of devolved government in Northern Kenya.
Threats to political survival posed by electoral opponents incentivize vertically accountable local leaders to substitute clientelism for state-building.
1609. Galava, D., & Kanyinga, K. (2024). Protecting the win, and securing the base: Kenya’s 2022 presidential election dispute and outcome.
Kenyatta and Odinga campaign compared poorly with Ruto’s robust mobilization approach and use of class and religious narratives.
1610. Maunganidze, L. (2024). Coping with gatekeeping in digitalised political participation research: A Zimbabwean experience.
Social networking sites and mobile instant messaging platforms have triggered new forms of both political mobilization and resistance.
1611. Ncube, M., Ncube, M.B., Mpofu, T., Moyo, F., . . . Makwati, L.B. (2024). Chronicle’s footprint in purging Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa from ZANU-PF government: Media-framing of the nine provincial-youth interface-rallies in 2017.
Sensational reporting by the Chronicle and other state-owned media precipitated the removal of the Vice President from office.
1612. Zannu, P.N., Talabi, F.O., Aderibigbe, A.A., Bello, S.A., . . . Ogah, A.I. (2024). Newspapers’ coverage of the 2023 presidential election campaigns from November 2022 to January 2023.
The newspapers should focus on features, pictures, cartoons, and editorial contents in future elections.
Psychological anthropology
1613. Adhvaryu, A., Fenske, J., Kala, N., & Nyshadham, A. (2024). Fetal origins of mental health: Evidence from Africa.
We find temperature shocks in utero increase depressive symptoms in adulthood.
1614. Emmerton, A.J., & Malouff, J.M. (2024). Applying self-determination theory to international development and humanitarian organisations.
We provide an overview of Self-Determination Theory and where it has been used in the development and humanitarian contexts.
1615. Hao, S., & Xu, H. (2024). Parental attachment and subjective well-being in vocational college students: Mediating roles for resilience and self-esteem.
Resilience and self-esteem are important in how parental attachment histories translate to subjective well-being at young adulthood.
1616. Jain, N., & Singh, P. (2024). Exploring the influence of decisionmaking style and financial status of cancer patients on varied cultural aspects of decision process.
We emphasize the role of cultural metaphysical beliefs in attributing responsibility for treatment decisions.
1617. Lodha, S., & Gupta, R. (2024). IAPS in India: A cross-cultural validation study of highly arousing emotional pictures.
Careful consideration of country-specific normative ratings is recommended for erotic and gory pictures.
1618. Maree, J.G. (2024). Integrating “old” truths and “new” evidence to address people’s evolving career counselling needs.
I call for innovation and renewal in career counseling to bridging the gap between traditional wisdom and contemporary realities.
1619. Matanga, A.A., Chiparausha, M., Kurevakwesu, W., & Charamba, S. (2024). Challenges for reintegrated youths recovering from substance use disorders in Harare, Zimbabwe: A phenomenological study.
Factors include social stigma, lack of empowerment programs, stress, idleness, relapse, and lack of social support.
1620. Mokoena-de Beer, A.G., Ledwaba, M.R., & Motswasele-Sikwane, L.K. (2024). Interpersonal violence experienced by nurses caring for persons with intellectual disability: A phenomenological study.
We found aggression and head banging aimed at causing harm to oneself and others as challenging behaviors that could potentially harm nurses and other patient.
1621. Mtshweni, B.V. (2024). Sense of belonging and academic persistence among undergraduate university students: The chain mediation effect of emotional and academic adjustment.
Sense of belonging influences academic persistence through emotional and academic adjustment.
1622. Musiello, F., Essack, Z., & van Heerden, A. (2024). Exploring upbringing styles of highly resilient students in South Africa: A mixed methods study.
Behavioral control was demonstrated by verbal interactions of discipline, corporal punishment, and curfews.
1623. Singh, R. (2024). Validating cognitive and emotional urges in comprehending one’s surroundings: The case of attraction from attitudes.
I pay tributes to Sinha by making a new case for the importance of his attitudes-and-attraction experiments.
1624. Steenkamp, I., & Chipps, J. (2024). South African nursing students’ stress and resilience during the global COVID-19 health crisis.
We provide a profile of nursing students’ coping and adaptation to a community-spread pandemic.
1625. Takawira, N. (2024). Examining the mediating role of support resources in the self-efficacy and career satisfaction relationship among professional women in a developing economy.
There is a need for organizations to provide supportive initiatives to promote self-efficacious beliefs and career satisfaction among professional women.
1626. Wu, Y., & Zhang, Y. (2024). How perspective taking influences obesity stereotypes: The mediating effect of intergroup contact.
Intergroup contact is an important resource for reducing obesity stereotypes with perspective taking.
Sociocultural change (Culture contact, migration, modernization)
1627. Ali, M., & Salam, M. (2024). Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake and hesitancy among multinational refugees and migrants in Jordan.
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is evident among the refugee and migrant populations, who are mainly skeptical of its efficiency and safety.
1628. Bharati, T., Fakir, A.M.S., & Yoman, W. (2024). Internal migration and labor market outcomes in Indonesia.
Internal migration is associated with an increase in migrant employment and a decrease in native employment.
1629. Coşkun, E., & Williams, L. (2024). Ugandan women and sex trafficking in Istanbul.
We see an intersectional lens in the study of migration, il/legality, workplace abuse, and trafficking into prostitution.
1630. Hanechko, O.M., Pavlichenko, H.V., Bielousov, V.D., Platonova, H.V., & Dyachenko, O.A. (2024). Comprehensive social and medical security for Ukrainian migrant workers: Degree of protection.
We studied the current state of legislation and state policy on the social security of labor migrants.
1631. Herrera, G., Espinosa, M.C.C., & Lara-Reyes, R. (2024). Emotions, inequalities and crises: Ecuadorian migrants in Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 was the occasion for migrants to revisit their sense of belonging as well as their awareness of south-north inequalities.
1632. Margheritis, A. (2024). Migration governance evolution amidst a nested crisis: The case of South America.
Policy choices were embedded in and shaped by several critical structural conditions and junctures.
1633. Matsumoto, K., Okumura, A., & Matsuda, K. (2024). Transplanted Brazilian Portuguese in Japan: Mobility, contact, and koiné formation among Latin American immigrants.
We discuss ongoing language change in the homeland, the social meaning of variants in both pre- and post-contact societies, and speakers’ social networks and mobilities.
1634. Pawlak, M., & Seeberg, M.L. (2024). Polish nurses in Norway: Migration for “normal” work–life balance.
We bring attention to the role of class, ethnicity, and national contexts in the work-life balance of migrant women.
1635. Sapre, A.A., & Singh, S. (2024). Between war and peace: Exploring the role of refugee law in the context of Sudan political conflict.
This unsettling state of affairs has led to large-scale displacement of people and severe human rights violations.
1636. Turtio, R. (2024). Soviet military assistance to Mali and Guinea, 1958–1980.
The army had a pervasive role in society, arrests, and executions of key soldiers and officials, harsh economic conditions, and mass migration.
1637. Vianello, F.A., Redini, V., & Zaccagnini, F. (2024). Exhaustion: Migrant mental health, gendered migration and workplace regime.
Gendered migration regime and the gendered workplace regime constitute two intertwined and mutually reinforcing determinants of health.
1638. Zapata-Barrero, R. (2024). Resilient urban turnaround in migration governance studies.
I demonstrate the distinctive characteristics of urban resilience when applied to migration governance research.
Symbol systems (Religion, ritual, world view)
1639. Adedibu, B. (2024). Christian theological education and discipleship: Panacea to Nigerian church challenges.
I argue for the repositioning of theological education towards mission, socioeconomic, and justice dimensions.
1640. Bachmann, J. (2024). ‘The true and scientific religion’: A Christian adaptation of esotericism and rejection of materialism in late nineteenth-century West Africa.
Why, how, and under which circumstances do people adapt global regimes of secularity?
1641. Biar, Z.M. (2024). Liberation and Christianity in South Sudan: Prioritising values that seem to matter.
I examine Bible study classes by Rejaf Diocese to understand what appeals more to Christians when discussing biblical passages.
1642. Boamah, K., & Apaah, F. (2024). Christianity: An indigenous African religion.
African Christianity has a lot to offer to global Christian expression and must therefore be allowed to interact with the culture to meet the needs of its adherents.
1643. Cheeseman, N., & Kamencu, M. (2024). The battle for Central: Ethnicity, urbanization and citizenship in Kenya’s 2022 general elections.
Past campaigns saw Odinga depicted as an unsuitable leader based on his history, personality, and Luo ethnicity.
1644. Figueiredo, F.B. (2024). State, religion, and tradition in Angola: Complicating secularity.
A generation gap opposed Protestant, mission-educated leaders to younger agnostic and atheist militants trained in socialist countries.
1645. Gani, J.K. (2023). Anti-colonial connectivity between Islamicate movements in the Middle East and South Asia: The Muslim Brotherhood and Jamati Islam.
Their theology was not incidental, but fundamental to both their anti-colonialism and their connectivity.
1646. Hussain-Abubakar, S. (2024). Gender-based violence and its effect on mental health: An Islamic panacea.
I emphasize the necessity for religious guidance to avert all forms of abuse and maintain mental serenity.
1647. Kahl, W. (2024). Postcolonial Biblical hermeneutics and exegesis.
Traditional Western exegesis from a historical-critical perspective has been rather skeptical of the postcolonial paradigm.
1648. Muhoja, M.S. (2024). Religion, healthcare, and social media use in urban Tanzania: An ethnographic study of faith-based organizations.
Faith-based organizations select social media platforms for their healthcare interventions based on the targeted audience and desired outcomes.
1649. Owiredu, C. (2024). Akan and Hebrew proverbs on poverty: Metaphoric conceptualisation.
I reveal similarities between Akan and Hebrew concerning the metaphoric conceptualization of poverty.
1650. Pontzen, B. (2024). Secular framings: The state and ‘African Traditional Religion’ in Ghana.
The Ghanaian state seeks to govern African Traditional Religion and integrate it into its nation-building politics.
1651. Reich, A.K. (2024). Conceptions of divinity: Statue making in contemporary Taiwan and the ritual of Embedding the Spirit (
The spirit embryo awaits the kaiguang, the final ritual of animation, the moment when the statue will come to life as a spirit image.
1652. Roberts, E.M. (2024). Embodied wearing: Clothing for Artemis in ancient Athenian religion.
I consider the physical and sensory experience of clothes-wearing during religious rituals and the evocation of sense-memory through dedicated garments.
1653. Taylor, A. (2024). A cosmopolitan revelation: Travel as a religious act with Rick Steves’ Europe.
Americans can be cured of their ethnocentricity and experience a cosmopolitan revelation.
1654. Walters, H. (2024). Etched in stone: Shaligrams as object-texts.
The semiotic interpretation of Shaligrams (fossil ammonites) instantiates ritual practices by which each stone becomes both an object and a text.
1655. Wilkens, K. (2024). African socialism and secular state formation.
State secularism is more about suppressing and/or balancing the traditional powers of religious leaders.
1656. Zoanni, T. (2024). On the religious and the secular in nineteenth-century Buganda.
Transformations here increased rather than diminished connections between the exercise of political power and markedly religious convictions.
Theoretical, Methodological, and General
1657. Balorda, J. (2023). The Rwandan genocide: Modernity and ambivalence.
The Rwandan genocidal project contains within it a desire to fulfil the promise of modernity by facilitating the emergence of an ethnically cleansed nation state.
1658. Bhan, M., & Govindrajan, R. (2024). More-than-human supremacy: Himalayan lessons on cosmopolitics.
We demonstrate how the inclusion of nonhuman entities in political life can serve to naturalize fascist politics.
1659. Green, N. (2024). Translating: In search of the global public.
Ideas and practices of translation can teach us about both the reach and the limits of global publics.
1660. Huber, V. (2024). Globalizing publics.
In covering the war in Ukraine, journalists and commentators have stressed the role of disinformation and the atomization of publics.
1661. Hunter, E. (2024). Writing: The world of newspapers.
A fractured present is contrasted with an idealized past in which publics served as a space of free exchange and debate.
1662. Jones, B.G. (2023). Anticolonial poetics: Forging solidarities and imagining futures.
Various dimensions of affective connection were constitutive of a new anticolonial imagination and looked towards liberated futures.
1663. Junka-Aikio, J. (2023). Whose settler colonial state? Arctic Railway, state transformation and settler self-indigenization in Northern Finland.
There has been a destabilization of the relationship between the state and Northern Finland’s older, ‘endogenous’ settler communities.
1664. Kahle, B., & Bailey, L. (2024). Archiving history in real time: Newspaper collections at the Internet Archive.
The Wayback Machine is our historical archive of the World Wide Web. We work with over a thousand libraries and other partners through our subscription web-archiving service, Archive-It.
1665. Kheshti, R. (2024). Pocodisco: The sonic performativity of grief, grievance, and joy in diaspora.
I explore how these artists/activist/curators work outside of institutional contexts as public media archaeologists.
1666. Lima, P.S.R. (2024). Mockery amid shooting: Laughter as an expression of expertise at a public clinic in Greater Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Mockery and laughter has the potential to become expressions of expertise when they establish the performer as a knowing subject in relation to their target.
1667. Lipsitz, G. (2024). FandangObon: Amplification, counter-publics, and fugitive spaces of belonging in Los Angeles.
This Japanese American Buddhist Obon ceremony honoring ancestors is turned into an antiracist polycultural performance.
1668. Reddy, G. (2024). “Our blood is becoming white”: Race, religion, and siddi becoming in Hyderabad, India.
Blackness, Muslimness, and masculinity are constituted as (intersecting) social and political categories.
1669. Sajed, A. (2023). Between Algeria and the world: Anticolonial connectivity, aporias of national liberation and postcolonial blues.
I treat the anti-colonial narrative in more complicated ways, seeing it both as a necessary tragedy and as a narrative of ‘crushed hopes.’
1670. Tompkins, C. (2024). Pitch Black: How design entrepreneurs are rethinking race in post-Katrina schools.
Humanity marks a process through which surplus affect and the spectacle of Blackness is instrumentalized and transmuted into racial capital.
1671. Veeraraghavan, L. (2024). What is “heard” at a pipeline hearing?: The gerrymandering of aurality in British Columbia, Canada.
Technological mediation makes it possible to satisfy one requirement of legitimacy: democratically granted representative power.
1672. Whyman, T., Murrup-Stewart, C., Young, M., Carter, A., & Jobson, L. (2023). ‘Lateral violence stems from the colonial system’: Settler-colonialism and lateral violence in Aboriginal Australians.
Challenges to the settler-colonial system need to be made to effectively combat lateral violence.
1673. Wirth, C. (2023). Reading Rizal: Wilhelm Tell and texts of revolution in the colonial Philippines.
To make the translation legible to all Tagalog classes, he pasyonized the text and turned Friedrich Schiller’s Blankverse into Tagalog verses.
Urban Studies
1674. Agboola, A.O., & Amidu, A.-R. (2023). Rethinking effective urban land governance in sub-Saharan Africa: Moving towards a transcendental critical realist approach.
We offer a useful meta-theoretical foundation that looks beyond the discernible, but complex social reality about land and the relations.
1675. Andreasen, M.H., Agergaard, J., Allotey, A.N.M., Møller-Jensen, L., & Oteng-Ababio, M. (2023). Built-in flood risk: The intertwinement of flood risk and unregulated urban expansion in African cities.
Fragmented urban governance as an underlying root cause for the obstruction of sustainable land and water management.
1676. Bénit-Gbaffou, C., & Williams, G. (2023). Producing planning knowledge: How professional PhD candidates bridge research–practice divides.
Planning professionals as authors must lead the translation of experiential knowledge into academic knowledge.
1677. Hoefnagels, N., Irvine, P.M., & Memela, S. (2023). Makhanda: Exploring the mise-en-scène of a city under threat.
Intermittent and unreliable water supply, sewerage spills, and the deterioration of existing infrastructure are just some of the issues faced.
1678. Moodley, S. (2023). Navigating proximity and distance in researching the local state: An insider–outsider perspective.
Differential positioning can significantly affect the depth of insights around state practices in urban governance.
1679. Pellerin, C.L., & Ashenafi, D. (2023). Unpacking the Addis Ababan exceptionalism—Living and making sense of violent protests in Ethiopia’s capital.
The peaceful normality of Addis Ababa has relied on ignoring conflicts within Ethiopia’s ethnic-based political settlement.
1680. Takyi, E., Mensah, H., Aazore, F.K., Nalumu, D.J., & Abu, J.J. (2023). Understanding the urban planning-green space depletion nexus: Insights from the Kwabre East Municipality, Ghana.
The challenges of urban planning practice are related to the absence of a single policy document with clear cut regulations.
1681. Tan, S.B. (2023). Do ethnic integration policies also improve socio-economic integration? A study of residential segregation in Singapore.
I highlight the need for greater attentiveness to residential integration policies’ impact on both socio-economic and ethnic integration.
1682. Tejani, S. (2023). Saffron geographies of exclusion: The Disturbed Areas Act of Gujarat.
Ethnocratic planning combines with targeted anti-Muslim violence, the hindrance of justice and reconciliation, and the persistent vilification of minorities to produce saffron geographies of exclusion.
1683. Troost, A.A., Janssen, H.J., & van Ham, M. (2023). Neighbourhood histories and educational attainment: The role of accumulation, duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to poverty.
The observed relationship between neighborhood poverty and educational attainment depends on how exposure to the neighborhood effect is conceptualized and measured.
1684. Wilson, J. (2023). Apocalyptic urban surrealism in the city at the end of the world.
I respond to calls for radical experimentation in urban theory in the context of the material and psychological upheavals of the Anthropocene.
Linguistics
Historical linguistics
1685. Agbetsoamedo, Y., Dankwa-Apawu, D., & Amuzu, E. (2024). Language contact in Santrokofi, a Ghana-Togo mountain language community: Impact on Selee.
There is evidence of lexical borrowing into Selee from the other languages, especially English and Ewe.
1686. Anderson, C., Tresoldi, T., Greenhill, S.J., Forkel, R., . . . List, J.M. (2023). Variation in phoneme inventories: Quantifying the problem and improving comparability.
We find considerable differences in inventories supposedly representing the same language variety, both in terms of size and transcriptional choices.
1687. Babili, G., Mphela, K.L., & Ditsele, T. (2024). Code-borrowing and its effects on the development of Sepedi: The case of soccer commentaries on Thobela FM.
Listeners believe that code-borrowing contributes positively towards the development of soccer terminology in Sepedi.
1688. Billings, B., & McDonnell, B. (2024). Sumatran.
We provide evidence for the inclusion of Enggano, spoken on the southernmost Barrier Island, which Nothofer only tentatively included.
1689. Brar, P., & Camargo, C.Q. (2023). The evolution of evolutionary linguistics.
We identify hypotheses cutting across clusters of concepts that have a high-betweenness centrality, implying that they might have a higher impact on the field if proven right (or wrong).
1690. Chappell, H. (2024). From oblique to core case in the Southern Min languages.
Recent diachronic studies target source morphosyntax to explain the emergence of a variety of synchronic patterns, all bearing similar discourse and grammatical functions.
1691. Chaula, N.A., & Mwashota, P. (2024). English and Kiswahili lexical localization in Kibena.
New words in Kibena come through loan blend words formation, neologism creation, and word to word translation techniques.
1692. Concu, V. (2024). “Ih gebiude dir, wurm!”
Preliminary data show the Old Saxon and Old High German may have also been worlds “beyond politeness.”
1693. Cristofaro, S. (2024). Diachronic pathways to case marking alignment and what they mean for the explanation of synchronic cross-linguistic patterns.
I call for a source-oriented approach to case marking alignment and recurrent cross-linguistic patterns in general.
1694. Eźlakowski, W. (2024). Disappearing iconicity in the evolution of Polish Sign Language: The case of słodki ‘sweet.’
The sign has undergone many different processes, such as assimilation, channel clearing, reduction, and analogy.
1695. Fleck, D.W. (2022). Why is Matses an onomatopoetic language?
I identify aspects of traditional Matses culture that contribute to the generation and maintenance of onomatopoetic terms.
1696. Futuse, L., & Dowling, T. (2024). Some missionary-influenced early borrowed words and names in Xhosa.
There was missionary influence in the fields of Western commodities and conventions, institutionalized Christianity, and the translation of the Bible.
1697. Halm, R. (2024). Pre-Proto-Aymaran affricates and the initial Quechuan-Aymaran contact.
The first lexical borrowings into Aymaran from Quechuan, as well as a subsequent series of reconstructable sound changes, predate the stage of Proto-Aymaran proper.
1698. Kircher, R., Kutlu, E., & Vellinga, M. (2024). Promoting minority language use to foster revitalisation: Insights from new speakers of West Frisian.
Different behaviors by traditional speakers discourage and/or encourage new speakers’ minority language use.
1699. Lesourd, P.S. (2022). A hero’s quest: An early twentieth-century text in Passamaquoddy.
This text is presented here in a new edition that corrects several errors of transcription and analysis in Prince’s version.
1700. Louhichi, I. (2024). What can the stories of a frog tell us about motion event description in Gulf Pidgin Arabic?
The linguistic evidence suggests Gulf Pidgin Arabic is developing into a verb-framed language type.
1701. Majola, Y.L.P., & Lemeko, P. (2024). The influence of Afrikaans on naming among the Basotho of South Africa.
Families believe that their deceased family members live on through their children, hence they name them after the deceased.
1702. Mounole, C. (2024). Alignment variations in the diachrony of Basque.
Actualization seems to depend on three factors: word order, valency of the auxiliated verb, and plural patient agreement.
1703. Rasekh-Mahand, M., & Parizadeh, M. (2024). Different functions of ‘rā’ in New Persian.
‘Rā’ has not gone further to mark inanimate relations, and it has gone toward core case roles, specifically direct object.
1704. Shcherbakova, O., & Allassonnière-Tang, M. (2023). Evolutionary pathways of complexity in gender systems.
In Indo-European languages more agreement patterns are caused by the presence of phonological and unpredictable rules.
1705. Strandberg, J.A.E., Gooskens, C., & Schüppert, A. (2024). Errors or identity markers? A survey study on the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish.
Although finlandisms and, in particular, fennicisms are often seen as erroneous, they can also be used to indicate a uniquely Finland Swedish linguistic identity.
1706. Takahashi, T., Onohara, A., & Ihara, Y. (2023). Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of pitch-accent systems based on accentual class merger: A new method applied to Japanese dialects.
The modern Kyoto dialect did not inherit its accent patterns from Bumoki, but from an unrecorded lineage which survived from the Muromachi period.
1707. Udolph, J. (2024). Home and spread of Indo-European tribes in the light of name research.
Te Baltics are therefore the center of Indo-European names, and there is no reason not to consider them as the starting area and home of Indo-European expansions.
1708. Unuabonah, F., & Mabena, M. (2024). Discourse-pragmatic borrowing in South African English.
The discourse-pragmatic features are generally infrequent, orthographically stable, and prefer the clause-initial position.
1709. Uwasomba, B.U., & Okiemute, A. (2024). A contrastive analysis of the morphological and syntactic aspects of Urhobo and Ijaw languages.
There is noticeable difference in all levels of linguistics that makes both languages not mutually intelligible.
1710. Yamada, A. (2024). A diachronic analysis of Spanish alg- series and n- series items in negated clauses.
The competition between items in negated clauses is influenced by factors such as register, the syntactic role of the polarity item, and activation status.
Psycholinguistics
1711. Aron, O., Mezjan, I., Krieg, J., Ferrand, M., . . . Maillard, L. (2024). Mapping the basal temporal language network: A SEEG functional connectivity study.
We support the fusiform gyrus as a multimodal functional hub and add to our understanding of ventral temporal language processing.
1712. Cauchi, C., Grainger, J., & Lété, B. (2024). On the learning trajectory of directional biases in reading: Evidence from the flankers task.
The rightward bias is driven by attentional asymmetries that develop during the process of learning to read.
1713. Darzhinova, L., & Luk, Z.-P.-S. (2024). Processing and comprehension of locally ambiguous participial relative clause sentences in Russian.
Predicate Proximity is a much stronger factor than Recency Preference in Russian.
1714. Deb, P., & Basu, A. (2024). The role of verbal fluency as a variable in reading and comprehension skills in Bengali.
Verbal fluency is an interesting variable determining the reading and comprehension skills in Bengali.
1715. Georgiou, G.P., & Giannakou, A. (2024). Discrimination of second language vowel contrasts and the role of phonological short-term memory and nonverbal intelligence.
We found a relationship between non-verbal IQ and L2 speech perception, likely linked with the association of high IQ with enhanced attentional capacities.
1716. He, S., Wang, X., Wang, T., Ge, D., & Khampheera, S. (2024). Examining the significance of intercultural communicative competence development in trainees during pre-service training.
Pre-service training should distinguish between foreign language learning and intercultural communication skills training.
1717. Jacob, G., Schaeffer, M.J., Oster, K., & Hansen-Schirra, S. (2024). The psycholinguistics of shining-through effects in translation: Cross-linguistic structural priming or serial lexical co-activation?
We found significant source sentence influence in the translation task, but no such effect in the priming task.
1718. Kaltsa, M., & Papadopoulou, D. (2024). The processing of lexical ambiguity: Evidence from child and adult Greek.
We found major processing differences between adults and children due to ambiguity and sentential context.
1719. Khatin-Zadeh, O., Hu, J., Eskandari, Z., Banaruee, H., & Farsani, D. (2024). Schematic embodiment of perseverance in Persian.
We define gestural scheme as a set of dynamic, sequential, and coordinated gestures that collectively represent a concept or an event.
1720. Koutamanis, E., Kootstra, G.J., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2024). Shared representations in cognate comprehension and production: An online picture naming and lexical decision study with bilingual children.
Cognate effects emerge across tasks and across a range of individual children’s language dominance.
1721. Liu, C.Y., Qin, L., Tao, R., Deng, W., . . . Siok, W.T. (2024). Delineating region-specific contributions and connectivity patterns for semantic association and categorization through ROI and Granger causality analysis.
Semantic categorization exhibited strong reciprocal connections between the posterior middle temporal gyrus and frontal semantic control regions.
1722. Liu, X., & Liu, Y. (2024). Music rhythmic cueing for the production of non-native speech rhythm: Evidence from Chinese learners of French.
Musical rhythmic cueing can be used to improve non-native speech rhythm production.
1723. Perkins, K., & Zhang, L.J. (2024). The effect of first language transfer on second language acquisition and learning: From contrastive analysis to contemporary neuroimaging.
We investigate the role that first language plays in transfer to second language during neural activity and cognitive processing.
1724. Pishghadam, R., Shayesteh, S., Daneshvarfard, F., Boustani, N., . . . Pishghadam, M. (2024). Cognition-emotion interaction during L2 sentence comprehension: The correlation of ERP and GSR responses to sense combinations.
There is an interaction between cognitive and emotional responses in both semantically and pragmatically incongruent sentences.
1725. Puertollano, M., Ribas-Prats, T., Gorina-Careta, N., Ijjou-Kadiri, S., . . . Escera, C. (2024). Longitudinal trajectories of the neural encoding mechanisms of speech-sound features during the first year of life.
Temporal fine structure encoding matured rapidly from birth to six months.
1726. Sparks, R.L., & Alamer, A. (2024). Language anxiety does not affect the growth of L2 reading achievement: The latent growth curve model approach.
Anxiety reflects students’ initial experience of L2 reading, but not their L2 achievement.
1727. Sun, J., & Liu, Z. (2024). The influencing mechanism and motivation of the bystander on the choice of Chinese address forms.
We suggest the intricate impact of context on language choice, as well as the interdependency of context variables.
1728. Takizawa, K. (2024). What contributes to fluent L2 speech? Examining cognitive and utterance fluency link with underlying L2 collocational processing speed and accuracy.
High-frequency collocations served as a proxy for automaticity in speech production.
1729. Zhang, J., Li, H., Qu, J., Liu, X., . . . Mei, L. (2024). Language proficiency is associated with neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts.
Language proficiency is associated with the neural representational dimensionality of semantic concepts.
1730. Zhao, Z. (2024). Diasporic identity in contemporary Sinophone literature: The role of language and cultural elements.
In Sinophone diasporic literature, I spotlight shared trends in identity portrayal through language and culture.
1731. Zimnukhova, S., Santesteban, M., & Zawiszewski, A. (2024). Subject relative clause preference in Basque: ERP evidence.
Preferences in relative clause disambiguation are predominantly shaped by filler-gap linear distance and/or subject-first bias.
Sociolinguistics
1732. Akinrinlola, T., & Sunday, A. (2024). Voices in selected comments of Obiageli Ezekwesili on the #BringBackOurGirls protest.
The language of protest is imbued with emotion-evoking stances that articulate the agitations of specific social actors in protest.
1733. Alinasab, M., & Sarkhosh, M. (2024). Exploring disciplinary authors’ conflict negotiation in published research article discussions.
Applied linguistics authors relied more on opposed claim components to discuss new findings and resolve research tensions.
1734. Almiron, N., Fernández, L., & Rodrigo-Alsina, M. (2024). Illusory authenticity: Negotiating compassion in animal experimentation discourse.
The industry does not negotiate compassion with authenticity, but rather creates an illusion of it through opportunistic lexical choices and suppression.
1735. Almohammadi, M., & Almuhammadi, A. (2024). The effect of service training on English teachers’ beliefs and attitudes.
We discuss the dynamics between professional development initiatives and educators’ beliefs and attitudes.
1736. Al-Sofi, B.B.M.A. (2024). The efficacy of game-based learning activities in enhancing L2 vocabulary acquisition among Saudi non-English majoring students.
Psychological aspects such as motivation, engagement, self-confidence, interest, shyness, and collaboration were important.
1737. Anesa, P. (2024). Self-directed online training for LSP Teachers: Challenges and solutions in the LSP-Teoc.Pro project.
Computer self-efficacy and motivation are key constructs in online self-directed learning.
1738. Auckle, T. (2024). Orthography, ideology and the codification of Mauritian Creole: The implications of decreasing linguistic Abstand.
I explore the implication of adopting a linguistic form which a user can intimately connect with loved ones, community, and personal identity.
1739. Bednarek, M., Bray, C., Vanichkina, D.P., Brookes, G., . . . Baker, P. (2024). Weight stigma: Towards a language-informed analytical framework.
People of a high weight are assigned qualities such as laziness, unattractiveness, unintelligence, uncleanliness, greed, and a lack of willpower.
1740. Blevins, J., & Kaufman, D. (2024). Austronesian lexemes in Basa Latala of Borneo: A Punan Sajau song language.
Many Basa Latala words have clear Austronesian and Borneo cognates and show evidence of Austronesian cognate morphology.
1741. Cai, Z.G., & Zhao, N. (2024). Structural priming: An experimental paradigm for mapping linguistic representations.
We discuss how structural priming can be employed to map syntactic representations and processes that underlie sentence comprehension and to decipher grammatical encoding in sentence production.
1742. Cao, Z., & Mao, Z. (2024). Studies on positive evidence feedback in second language writing: Status quo and implications.
We suggest L2 teachers vary their feedback decisions with flexibility and consider individual and contextual factors in positive evidence feedback practices.
1743. Caucci, G.M., Kreuz, R.J., & Buder, E.H. (2024). What’s a little sarcasm between friends: Exploring the sarcastic tone of voice.
Spontaneous sarcastic statements had more varied pitch, lower mean amplitude, and less varied amplitude.
1744. Chan, P.H., & Aubrey, S. (2024). Strengthening teacher–student rapport through the practice of guided dialogue journaling.
The dialogue journals were designed to elicit students’ learning experiences, other out-of-class life experiences, and personal interests.
1745. Cheng, A., Cheng, L., Gonzales, W.D.W., & Umbal, P. (2024). Variation in Asian and Pacific Islander North American English: What the patterns of scholarship demonstrate about race in sociolinguistics.
The vast majority of variationist studies analyze phonetic and phonological variation, with a theoretical focus on identifying participation in race-based varieties.
1746. Chiluwa, I., & Ononye, C.F. (2024). The #PantamiMustGo political activism: A textual analysis of narrative agency in protest discourse.
We use comparison to link the past with the present and the use of labeling as means of constructing social and political insecurity.
1747. Chou, M.-H. (2024). Validating the vocabulary learning strategies used by English as a foreign language university students in Taiwan.
It is possible to obtain plausible underlying constructs for a set of questionnaire items in exploratory factor analysis.
1748. Coats, S. (2024). Building a searchable online corpus of Australian and New Zealand aligned speech.
Recent applications have included studies of double modals, a rare syntactic feature, and apology sequences.
1749. Cox, F., & Penney, J. (2024). Multicultural Australian English – The New Voice of Sydney.
The corpus focuses on adolescent speech in communities under-represented in sociophonetic analyses of Australian English.
1750. Daudey, H. (2022). Color terms in Wadu Pumi.
Speakers have found ways to differentiate red from grue in daily use, thus corroborating the opponent-process theory of color.
1751. Docrat, Z., & Kaschula, R.H. (2024). Approaches to interpreting emojis as evidence in South African courts: A forensic linguistic perspective.
Recommendations are made regarding the use of emojis as evidence in courts of law.
1752. Dombrausky, K., Jensvold, M.L., Shaw, H.L., & Davis, J.Q. (2023). Chimpanzees coordinate interrogative markers to ask questions.
We offer a methodology for quantifying the relationship between non-manual markers and manual modulation involved in interrogative utterances.
1753. Domke, L.M. (2024). How children read multilingual texts: A description of reading translanguaging strategies.
When people engage in translanguaging, they dynamically leverage everything they know about languages and sign systems.
1754. Ecalle, J., Thierry, X., Labat, H., & Magnan, A. (2024). Examining the relations between early language skills and environmental variables and literacy skills: A longitudinal study from 2 to 9 years.
Early expressive vocabulary is linked to the development of literacy skills via an implicit stimulation of phonemic awareness during the acquisition of new words.
1755. Edman, K. (2024). Doing mutual understanding in child and family therapy sessions: How three interlocutors calibrate new information.
Interlocutors may calibrate the ‘tone’ of an utterance before the topical content is mutually understood.
1756. Elongo, A. (2024). Stylistics of the injunction in the advertising language of mobile telephony.
The duty of the addressee is the obedience and execution of the tasks dictated by his speaker.
1757. Fidler, M.U., & Cvrček, V. (2023). Zone-flooding as a discursive strategy of Czech anti-system news portals.
A schematic set of narrative lines permeate anti-system media: a model of the world divided into the West (USA, NATO, and the EU) and Russia.
1758. Gao, Y., & Cui, Y. (2024). English as a foreign language teachers’ pedagogical beliefs about teacher roles and their agentic actions amid and after COVID-19: A case study.
We call for a closer examination of the complexity of teacher roles to better understand teachers’ agentive technology integration.
1759. Gasiorek, J., & Dragojevic, M. (2024). Code-mixing in promotional materials for tourism: Effects of format on processing fluency and interest in cultural activities.
Code-mixing both disrupted fluency for potential tourists and boosted their interest in advertised cultural activities.
1760. Glass, L., & Forrest, J. (2024). Testing the effect of political ideology on the Southern Vowel Shift among White Georgians.
“Southern” pronunciations of the vowels in FACE, DRESS, TRAP, and PRIZE are positively correlated with a continuous measurement of political conservatism.
1761. Gumede, M. (2024). The role of isiZulu communal notifications in sustaining the community-orientated lifestyle.
Communal notifications help inculcate the spirit of ubuntu or humanness among the community dwellers.
1762. Hamada, Y., & Suzuki, Y. (2024). Situating shadowing in the framework of deliberate practice: A guide to using 16 techniques.
Different primary types of shadowing are classified into shadowing for phonological processing and shadowing for intake through meaning-focused processing.
1763. Helland, W.A., Aaland, E., Furebotn, K.L., Nilsen, J., . . . Morken, F. (2024). Investigating pragmatic abilities in 5- to 7-year-old Norwegian children: A study using the Pragma test.
Pragmatic ability, as measured by the Pragma test, shows similar age effects in a Norwegian setting as in Finnish and Italian contexts.
1764. Hersi, M. (2024). Pedagogical tasks for rhetorical consciousness-raising in college EFL reading classrooms.
I examine how EFL teachers can help their students develop their reading skills through rhetorical consciousness-raising.
1765. Hu, K., Deng, Y., & Liu, X. (2024). WordSift: Reading easier by understanding key words.
WordSift, a word cloud tool based on high frequency and key words, can assist English as a Foreign Language learners.
1766. Jian, Z. (2024). Responsive advice-giving to troubles in supervision interaction.
I consider rephrasing students’ formulations of trouble, using follow-up exploratory questions, and sharing parallel experiences.
1767. Kim, H.-J., Gray, S., & Lange, C. (2024). Instructional guidance for promoting creativity in English as a foreign language writing classrooms: A Korean case study.
SCAMPER produced statistically significantly higher levels of perceived creative output.
1768. Kimchi, I., Wolters, L., Stamp, R., & Arnon, I. (2023). Evidence of Zipfian distributions in three sign languages.
Sign frequencies and ranks in three sign language corpora (BSL, DGS, and NGT) show a Zipfian relationship.
1769. Kitikanan, P., & Leung, A.H.-C. (2024). Wearing face masks in different speech styles during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of Thai L2 English learners.
In L2 classroom contexts, speaking clearly could lessen the negative effects of the face mask and unavailability of visual information of the speaker.
1770. Kizelbach, U. (2024). The pragmatics of royal discourse in William Shakespeare’s
Politeness and impoliteness have a prominent place in the reading of Shakespearean drama and serve as a means of characterization.
1771. Knobl, W. (2023). Portrait of the grammarian as an artist.
The enigmatic final sūtra of Pāṇini’s Grammar has long challenged commentators to interpret it as an ingenious illustration of phonology.
1772. Kuteeva, M., & Andersson, M. (2024). Diversity and standards in writing for publication in the age of AI—Between a rock and a hard place.
Large language models are likely to drive both language use and knowledge construction towards homogeneity and uniformity, reproducing already existing biases and structural inequalities.
1773. Lasagabaster, D., & van der Walt, C. (2024). Students’ perceived language competence and attitudes towards multilingualism at a South African University.
English proficiency is perceived as high and attitudes towards this language are very favorable.
1774. Lee, H.-w., Mullooly, A., Devine, A., & Galaczi, E. (2024). Exploring interaction in video-call paired speaking tests: A look at scores, language, and perceptions.
Video-call paired interactions in the assessment context of interest in this study are largely comparable to in-person interactions in terms of scores.
1775. Lee, N.H. (2024). The early Baba Malay continuum.
The linguistic ideologies of early Baba Malay speakers and competing pressures in their group identities explain the considerable variation found.
1776. Lee, S.-H. (2024). Crisis classifications in mobility: Reporting the first COVID death in Taiwan.
Classifications in mobility capture challenges of deconstructing and reconstructing categories in building public consensus.
1777. Li, P. (2024). Exploring intercultural communication through identity construction: A case of YouTube comments.
Individuals could employ explicit ethnicity labeling, rhetorical questioning, othering processes, and humor as key strategies.
1778. Limerick, N. (2024). Can state offices reclaim Kichwa? Intercultural bilingual education politics and policy in Ecuador over decades.
I describe challenges that have arisen for directors that are linked to national state offices and expectations.
1779. Louro, C.R., & Collard, G. (2024). The Yarning Corpus: Aboriginal English in southwest Western Australia.
We focus on speakers who use Aboriginal English as their main language of communication, and who do not speak ancestral languages fluently.
1780. Mabasa, A., & Ngcobo, M.N. (2024). An evaluation of PanSALB’s progress in monitoring and managing language rights violations in South Africa.
Awareness campaigns are needed to encourage speakers of other languages to lodge complaints when their language rights are violated.
1781. Mabela, L., & Ditsele, T. (2024). Perceptions about the development of Black South African languages for use in basic education in South Africa.
The parents and guardians value English in education for the power, status, and opportunities it presents.
1782. Malory, B. (2024). Polarized discourses of abortion in English: A corpus-based study of semantic prosody and discursive salience.
I consider whether the discursive salience of extreme anti-abortion discourses may strengthen the negative semantic prosody of abortion.
1783. Mohammed, A. (2024). The construction of attitudinal meaning in response to food advertisements: Six case studies.
Is there a link between advert design and the adopted meaning making process?
1784. Moodley, M. (2024). Revisiting the technology acceptance model: The influence of colonial mentality on technology acceptance.
The participants were pleased to use the Setswana software, but opted for English.
1785. Mubarok, M.Z., & Aziez, F. (2024). AI and non-AI tools in teaching English pronunciation to EFL learners.
AI-based and non-AI-based apps can be valuable tools for enhancing students’ pronunciation skills.
1786. Mudau, T., Kabinde-Machate, M.L., & Mandende, I.P. (2024). Analysis of the translation strategies used for non-equivalent Grade 4 geography concepts.
Translators used paraphrasing, more general words, related words, transliteration, and omission as strategies to attain equivalence.
1787. Muganda, G.F. (2024). A multimodal discourse analysis of COVID-19 posters in Tanzania: The case of the University of Dar es Salaam.
The posters provided clear and easy-to-understand information regarding COVID-19 health protocols.
1788. Mukosi, T., Mandende, I.P., & Mashige, M.C. (2024). Tshivenḓa death-related names as a communicative act: An ethnopragmatic study from Vhembe District in Limpopo province, South Africa.
Personal names are useful towards creating different messages that communicate with those deemed culpable.
1789. Mutagwaba, J., & Jessner, U. (2024). Early multilingualism and bi/multilingual education in Tanzanian primary schools: Teachers’ perceptions.
We present implications for teaching strategies and policy development to enhance multilingual proficiency in the educational system.
1790. Napoli, D.J., & Sanders, N. (2024). An approach to path movement in the diachronic study of sign languages: Biomechanics and nonarbitrariness.
Sign languages seem not to be amenable to traditional historical reconstruction via the comparative method.
1791. O’Shannessy, C. (2024). The longitudinal corpus of language acquisition, maintenance and contact: Warlpiri & Light Warlpiri.
A new contact language, known as Light Warlpiri, has emerged, and the corpus provides the documentation for perspectives on its emergence and continuity.
1792. Placiński, M., Żywiczyński, P., Matzinger, T., Sibierska, M., . . . Wacewicz, S. (2023). Evolution of pantomime in dyadic interaction. A motion capture study.
With successive rounds of interaction, the volume of participants’ movements and the path traveled by their bodily articulators decreased.
1793. Pun, J. (2024). Effects of prior English exposure on Hong Kong tertiary science students’ experiences in EMI learning.
Students perceived the importance of English skills in science education and adopted different learning strategies.
1794. Rangsarittikun, R., & Watson Todd, R. (2024). The languaging curriculum in practice: Communicating successfully on social media.
Teachers need to change their beliefs about the nature of language teaching, especially the importance of accuracy.
1795. Sahlender, M., & ten Hagen, I. (2023). Do teachers adapt their gestures in linguistically heterogeneous second language teaching to learners’ language proficiencies?
German as a second language teachers predominantly used deictic gestures, metaphorical gestures, and feedback by head movements.
1796. Sha, W. (2024). The phonological coordination relationship of Hancheng dialect in Shaanxi Province.
Linguists bear the mission to meticulously document certain dialects, turning them into precious cultural heritage.
1797. Shakir, M. (2024). An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes.
Different features are used for expressing persuasion or opinion compared to the two reference varieties.
1798. Sheard, E. (2024). The Sydney Speaks Lifespan Corpus.
Panelists’ movements over the lifespan are tied to their earlier positions relative to change.
1799. Simpson, J., & Bradley, J. (2024). Belonging-in-interaction: Expressing and performing translocal belongings through language and arts practice.
Our perspective on belonging-in-interaction presents a challenge to dominant discourses relating to social integration for new arrivals.
1800. Stoffelsma, L., Antwi, V., & Hanson, R. (2024). Incidental vocabulary learning in a postcolonial English second language context.
The study contributes to our understanding of incidental vocabulary learning in a “natural” ESL context.
1801. Sun, M. (2024). A study of appraisal system and its texture/textuality mechanisms.
The framework built consists of three strata (contextual, discourse-semantic, and lexico-grammatical), two dimensions (micro and macro), and an intermediary variable (rhetorical strategies).
1802. Svensson, H. (2024). Language dynamics and agency in multilingual research interviews.
Multilingual speakers had the option to engage in the host language, to bring their own language support person or to request a professional interpreter.
1803. Takahashi, M., & Bettinson, M. (2024). Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora.
AuTS and NewsTalk are representations of large-scale online Australian public discourse that can be mined and analyzed.
1804. Titi, N., Ralarala, M.K., & Botha, R. (2024). Analysis of orthographic errors in Grade 11 isiXhosa First Language texts.
Learners commit a variety of errors and thus demonstrate significant deviation from the standard orthography.
1805. Travis, C.E. (2024). Sydney Speaks corpus: An overview.
Approximately 120 hours (1.2 million words) have been transcribed and time aligned at both the utterance and segment level.
1806. Vigasin, A. (2023). Sanskrit scholars in Nazi Germany.
The anti-Semitic policies and political persecutions of the Nazi period had disastrous consequences for classical German Indology.
1807. Wang, N. (2024). A comparative study on the lexical collocations in academic discourse by international scholars and Chinese EFL learners.
I underscore the need for targeted pedagogical interventions to improve the collocational competence of Chinese EFL learners.
1808. Wang, Y. (2024). Chinese online celebrities’ discursive strategies of promoting domestic products: Online posters as multimodal ensembles.
I provide new insights for analyzing the visibility of online celebrities in the growing wave of “buy national” in China.
1809. Willoughby, L., Smith, R.T., & Johnston, T. (2024). The GeSCA repository: Gesture and Sign Corpus of Australia.
The linking of Signbank with the Auslan Corpus enables users of the dictionary to view attested examples in the corpus.
1810. Winter, R.E., Stoeger, H., & Suggate, S.P. (2024). Fine motor skills and their link to receptive vocabulary, expressive vocabulary, and narrative language skills.
Fine motor skills were most strongly linked to children’s oral narrative skills.
1811. Woo, E., & Kim, D.-H. (2024). Measuring secondary school students’ L2 writing self-regulated strategies in the Korean EFL context.
The use of self-regulated learning strategies significantly influenced students’ writing achievement.
1812. Xu, Y., & Liu, Y. (2024). Exploring the dynamics of translation units in translation studies.
Skilled translators prefer larger units, adapting to text familiarity.
1813. Yang, J., Lawrence, J.F., & Grøver, V. (2024). What else will I do when I start school? Preschoolers’ wh-questions in dinnertime conversations and their language development.
Children’s wh-questions predicted their receptive vocabulary growth across one year.
1814. Yao, Y., & Li, Y. (2024). “China’s foreign aid” and “China’s national image” in the eyes of foreign media: A corpus-based discourse-historical analysis.
News themes reveal the objects, fields and methods of China’s foreign aid.
1815. Zinger, J.F., Lee, D.J., & Su, C.C. (2024). It’s in the syllabus: The relationship between syllabi word use and teaching evaluations.
Professors who used more communal language received significantly higher teaching evaluations.
Theoretical linguistics
1816. Akumbu, P.W., & Kießling, R. (2024). The Babanki pronoun system.
We consider the historical study of Grassfields pronoun systems by synchronic insights from compounding in Babanki.
1817. Alfarano, V. (2024). Middle, reflexive, and reciprocal constructions in Nalögo: A typological and diachronic account.
Nalögo displays a so-far unknown path of semantic extension within the Oceanic family: from reflexive to middle.
1818. Almohaimeed, N.A. (2024). Gender differences in the use of negation markers in Qassimi Arabic: A sociolinguistic analysis.
The supralocal negator Mu was used by all females and a smaller portion of males.
1819. Alotaibi, W.J. (2024). Exploration of instructional strategies for teaching Saudi ESL/EFL students English pronunciation.
Knowledge of articulatory functions and suprasegmental features, which are important for intelligibility, are covered.
1820. Andrason, A., Mohr, S., Phiri, A., Sibanda, N., & Vundla, M. (2024). Hunting gestures in Tjwao.
The hunting gesture code used by Tjwao speakers largely complies with the profile exhibited by the other hunting gesture codes.
1821. Aru, A. (2024). Conceptual blending and compound figures of speech.
Compound figures of speech, such as hyperbolic metaphors, ironic metaphors, and ironic hyperboles, are investigated.
1822. Berghoff, R. (2024). Lexical and sub-lexical frequencies in isiXhosa-medium children’s stories.
I discuss information on sublexical frequency, with a focus on two-, three-, and four-consonant sequences.
1823. Berghoff, R., & White, M.J. (2024). Cognitive control affects the reanalysis of reduced complement clause ambiguities.
Cognitive control is implicated even in relatively simple sentence reanalyses when conflict between semantic and syntactic cues must be resolved.
1824. Bickmore, L. (2024). Silozi verbal tonology.
Silozi exhibits Melodic High tones which help express certain inflectional properties of the verb.
1825. Brinton, L.J. (2024). The rise of what-general extenders in English.
General extenders serve a range of discourse-pragmatic functions, such as hedging and interpersonal relations.
1826. Calle-Martín, J., & Pacheco-Franco, M. (2024). ‘The night before beg’d ye queens’s pardon and his brother’s’: The apostrophe in the history of English.
There seems to be no indication that standardization emerged from linguistic prescription; instead, grammars seem to have been shaped after use.
1827. Carnesale, L. (2023). Experiential constructions in Hindi: The encoding of perceptions and bodily sensations.
I propose a constructionist explanation of the distribution of Hindi argument-structure constructions across the highly variable range of experiential events.
1828. Castle, C. (2023). Czech, mate: Grammatical replication and shift in south Australian Czech.
The features found are possibly the result of shift and attrition processes and contact-induced language transfer acting together within a Dynamic System.
1829. Cecchetto, C., & Donati, C. (2024). Labeling (reduced) structures: When VPs are sentences.
Clauses are exocentric but can be labeled by a mechanism of feature sharing.
1830. Cichosz, A. (2024). The syntactic status of V-final conjunct clauses in Old English: The role of priming.
The main mechanism responsible for the use of the V-final order in conjunct clauses is syntactic priming.
1831. Costa, D.J. (2022). Miami-Illinois word order: Second-position particles.
I examine particles, discussing their semantic, syntactic, and phonological features.
1832. Deal, A.R. (2024). Interaction, satisfaction, and the PCC.
I offer a new notation for probes’ interaction and satisfaction specifications, clarifying the absence of uninterpretable/unvalued features as drivers of Agree.
1833. Dehé, N., & Wochner, D. (2024). Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions.
We interpret the utterance-final position of breathiness in Icelandic RQs as a potential compensating strategy for the lack of phonological cues, i.e. boundary tones.
1834. DeVeaux, C., Markowitz, D.M., Han, E., Miller, M.R., . . . Bailenson, J.N. (2024). Presence and pronouns: An exploratory investigation into the language of social VR.
The use of self-references and collective references positively correlated to social presence and spatial presence.
1835. Doan, Q.N.T., Reuland, E., & Everaert, M. (2024). The blocking effect in Vietnamese.
Binding of Vietnamese mình yields what one may call an Author effect.
1836. Dubenion-Smith, S. (2024). Clausal postpositioning in German regional language.
Postpositioning is more prevalent in verb-first and verb-second clauses than in verb-final clauses.
1837. Elias, A. (2024). Development of a *kl- consonant cluster into phrase-initial epenthetic breathiness in Ende (Eastern Indonesia).
A series of sound changes resulted in a segment pronounced [ɦ-], which was reanalyzed as an epenthetic phrase boundary marker instead of a fricative phoneme.
1838. Engdahl, E. (2024). Passive with control and raising in mainland Scandinavian.
Passive constructions need to be distinguished from so called long passives and double passives where a passive feature on either V1 or V2 can spread to the adjacent verb.
1839. Fanego, T. (2024). “Don’t go getting into trouble again!”
The Go VPing construction has grown increasingly more interpersonal, and has become conventionalized as a marker of admonitive mood.
1840. German, A. (2024). Abrupt grammatical reorganization of an emergent sign language: The expression of motion in Zinacantec Family Homesign.
Later-born signers exhibit greater regularity of form-meaning mappings and increased articulatory efficiency.
1841. Gonzales, W.D.W. (2024). When to (not) split the infinitive: Factors governing patterns of syntactic variation in Twitter-style Philippine English.
I adopt a Bayesian approach in conducting a multiple multinomial regression analysis of the variation, with the help of Deep-Learning-based demographic inference tools.
1842. Green, C.R. (2022). Jarawan numerals: Implications for history and internal classification.
I support the idea that there were two migrations of Jarawan speakers from Cameroon into Nigeria.
1843. He, Y. (2024). Finiteness in Mandarin clausal complements: The role of ICH and future modals.
Proposition complements only select finite clauses while Event complements are non-finite.
1844. Hildebrandt, G. (2024). Honorifics in child-directed speech.
The addressee honorific -yo is present at notable rates in child-directed speech.
1845. Holliday, N. (2024). Sociophonetic properties of Southern California English among Black and Latinx teens.
Teens here use a variety of sociophonetic features linked to Chicano English, African American English, and California Anglo English.
1846. Jones, A. (2024). The grammaticalization of self and self-world in East Mekeo: Personhood as a closed system.
One large class of relational nouns is linked
1847. Kaleta, A. (2023). The semantics of clausal complementation: Evidence from Polish.
I use collostructional analysis to determine the sets of predicates with which each of the complement constructions is significantly associated.
1848. Lara Bermejo, V. (2024). The history of second-person pronouns in European Portuguese.
The European variety has journeyed through three very specific periods in its history, triggering both loss of inflection and person disagreements.
1849. LaTerza, I., Osenova, P., & Karapejovski, B. (2023). Binding in South Slavic and DP: A data-driven approach.
We provide experimental data for Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Serbian. The three languages exhibit almost identical binding potentials.
1850. Li, X., Wei, H., & Liu, H. (2024). Counting and countability in classifier languages: Evidence from Donglan Zhuang.
Bare nouns in classifier languages are not uniform with respect to the [±argument] parametric setting.
1851. Little, C.R. (2024). Impersonal morphosyntax in generative grammar.
There are impersonal constructions for generative theories of morphological features, grammatical case, and verbal projections.
1852. Lovick, O., & Tuttle, S.G. (2024). Pitch patterns in standard negation in Alaskan Dene and the development of grammatical tone.
In Tanacross and Middle Tanana, the negative high is best analyzed as an utterance-level intonational pattern.
1853. Martin, J.B. (2024). From switch-reference to case marking in Muskogean: The role of clefts.
The cleft clauses ended in same- and different-subject switch-reference markers.
1854. Matlosa, L., ‘Matjotjo, ’M., & Selebeli, T. (2024). The morpho-sociolinguistic aspect of the morpheme /-ng∼-eng/ in Sesotho.
One linguistic norm is the current suffixation of /-ng∼-eng/ to some parts of speech to which traditionally it was not suffixed.
1855. Mdoe, K.M. (2024). Gender assignment in Datooga nouns.
Mythological association overrode the semantics of noun gender assignment in Datooga.
1856. Molinari, L. (2023). The syntax of Bulgarian edin ‘one’.
1857. Morin, C., Desagulier, G., & Grieve, J. (2024). A social turn for Construction Grammar: Double modals on British Twitter.
Defining double modals as grammatical constructions requires that aspects of their social meaning be delimited.
1858. Muẞemann, V. (2024). A topic which I want to know more about – preposition placement in finite WH-relative clauses in World Englishes.
Clear differences between variety stages are observed with respect to formality and topic.
1859. Nesset, T., & Makarova, A. (2023). Threatening in Russian with or without sja: Grozit′ vs. grozit′sja.
A small curated corpus like the Russian National Corpus is suitable for detailed analysis of semantic and syntactic properties.
1860. Peters, E. (2024). Perception and asymmetry in the High German consonant shift.
In Evolutionary Phonology, perceptual and phonetic data are presented which account for the asymmetries without making any reference to markedness.
1861. Prescod, P. (2024). Evidence from bare verbs for the future versus non-future split in Creoles.
Predicates in the future tense are unambiguous regardless of the lexical aspect of these predicates.
1862. Reinhardt, J., & Matuschat-Petersen, W. (2024). Pragmatic effects on the sentence-final intonation of answered wh-in-situ questions in French.
String-identical wh-in-situ questions can be pronounced with rises as well as falls and b) pragmatics affect the final pitch movement.
1863. Rothermund, P., & Strack, F. (2024). Reminding may not be enough: Overcoming the male dominance of the generic masculine.
Male bias is partly driven by associative processes that are immune against a purely explicit disambiguation of the generic intention.
1864. Sagart, L. (2024). The phonetic nature of PAn *j.
Where an alveolar or palatal nasal is in correspondence with [g], [ɟ], or [d], the default historical interpretation is of the nasal.
1865. Sims, N. (2024). Verbal -s variation in earlier African American English.
I explored verbal -s in the Federal Writers’ Project ex-slave narratives to understand what patterns of -s-marking existed in earlier African American English.
1866. Tailleur, S. (2024). Partial interrogatives in Quebec French: A diachronic look at a spreading variant.
The partial interrogative system in Quebec is not stable over time.
1867. Tanaka, N., Lau, E., & Lee, A.L.F. (2024). On the universality of the subject preference in the acquisition of relative clauses across languages.
Subject preference may not be uniform across languages, depending on typological properties such as language headedness, relative clause headedness, and main clause similarity.
1868. Tchesa, G., & Shintani, N. (2024). Effects of declarative and procedural memory in the development of grammatical structures.
Procedural memory was associated with learners’ performance at lower levels of L2 acquisition.
1869. Tod, D. (2024). Rhythm in the Kingdom: A variationist analysis of speech rhythm in Tongan English.
Interspeaker variation was identified, highlighting the need to be careful when classifying L2 Englishes based on speech rhythm.
1870. Trommer, J. (2024). The concatenative structure of tonal overwriting.
I demonstrate that neither morpheme-specific phonology nor cyclicity is necessary to capture tonal overwriting.
1871. Tshovhewaho, O.I. (2024). False friends: The case of Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga.
Some words that looked similar in both languages had totally different meanings or shared partial meaning.
1872. Vuković, T. (2023). A corpus-based analysis of the grammatical status of short demonstratives in the Timok dialect.
Insight into idiolects reveals that some speakers show a more advanced use of SDs on the grammaticalization scale than others.
1873. Witkowska, M., Dołżycka, J., Suitner, C., & Formanowicz, M. (2024). The grammar of persuasion: A meta-analytic review disconfirming the role of nouns as linguistic cues of subsequent behavior.
We discuss theoretical prospects involving the verb-action link as well as the self-verification motives.
1874. Yakpo, K. (2024). Reciprocal constructions: Multilingual contact favors borrowing of transparent structures.
I suggest cognitive and sociolinguistic explanations for the preference of Dutch-sourced reciprocal pronouns during multilingual contact.
1875. Zhu, J., & Yu, J. (2024). The lexical semantics of motion verbs 奔, 走, and 跑 in Shanghainese and Mandarin Chinese: Implications for theories of verbal meaning.
Entailments of manner and result are not complementary and do not completely determine root distribution in event structure templates.