Lexical stress plays a pivotal role in language processing by influencing how words are segmented, recognised, and accessed in the mental lexicon. Variations in stress patterns, realised through ...

Recent studies have highlighted divergent change as a more common outcome of language contact than previously thought. While convergent change is often attributed to bilingual cognitive pressures, ...

Lexical borrowing has been frequently regarded as a nonsystematic activity. This paper examines a southern African sociolinguistic style of speaking characterized by the systematic exploitation of ...

When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which ...

In many parts of the world, growing up bilingual is the norm rather than the exception. A substantial proportion of these bilingual children acquire their two languages simultaneously from birth. A ...

Penn State Professor of German and Linguistics Michael Putnam has spent a good part of his career thinking about language ...

A recent study claims to have utilized mathematics to determine when Homer really wrote the Iliad. How did this work, and is ...

9.00-9.50 Lene Schøsler (Københavns Universitet): A diachronic perspective on support verb constructions in French 9.50-10.40 Antonio Fábregas (Universitetet i Tromsø): On light verbs, light nouns and ...

This November sees veteran Young Adult author Mal Peet having something of a renewal with his first novel for adults, The Murdstone Trilogy. As well as being his first book for adults, it’s also his ...