From structure to meaning: a lexical semantic framework for Urdu compounding by Tahir Saleem, Shumaila Ahmad

“…The findings demonstrate LSF’s adaptability to Urdu, uncovering transparency and opacity in semantic relationships. A unique pattern of argumental compounding emerges, where constituent elements interact to create culturally resonant meanings. …”
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LEXICAL IMPACT FOR THE IDEOLOGY IN HEADLINE NEWS: INDONESIA SALT IMPORT ISSUE by Aniesa Haque Ayu, Nurul Chojimah, Esti Junining

“…That perspective came from the discourse which has been selected in its lexical and composing the pattern of sentences.…”
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A Study on English Language Teachers’ Lexical Attrition in Chinese Contexts by Qiqin Hu, Bochra Kouider

“…The present study aimed to investigate whether similar patterns of lexical attrition occurred among FL teachers, who were generally considered to possess a strong resistance to FL attrition. …”
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An account of inter-lexical polysemy in Italian prepositions: The case of per, tra, attraverso by Francesco-Alessio Ursini, Yue (Sara) Zhang

“… The goal of this paper is to offer an account of an inter-lexical polysemy pattern connecting the three Italian prepositions per, tra and attraverso. …”
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Orthographic accents and their influence on lexical stress perception in L2 word recognition by Maria Teresa Martinez Garcia

“…Surprisingly, L1 Korean learners outperformed native Spanish speakers in unstressed conditions, challenging the expected "stress deafness" pattern often associated with learners from non-stress languages. …”
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Arteries and Veins or Bowels and Vessels – On Lexical Fixedness in the Eighteenth-Century Medical Texts by Magdalena Bator, Marta Sylwanowicz

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Maintenance of Lexical Pitch Accent in Heritage Lithuanian: A Study of Perception and Production by Jessica Kantarovich

“…Dialect was also determined to play a role in the retention of standard accent patterns in both perception and production.…”
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The endangered Tanka language in Hong Kong: phonological variations and lexical convergence with Cantonese by Cong Wang, Daxingwang Peng, Yanmei Dai, Chong Qi

“…First, a comparative analysis of the phonological systems of the Tanka language and Cantonese revealed striking differences in their rhyme patterns and tone evolution from Middle Chinese. These findings underscore significant phonological distinctions between the two languages. …”
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Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing by Anne-Maria Fehn, Bonny E. Sands, Admire Phiri, Maitseo Bolaane, Gaseitsiwe Masunga, Ezequiel Fabiano, Jorge Rocha

“…Lexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. …”
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Changement de topique et prise en charge énonciative : le rôle de toujours est-il que by Véronique Lenepveu

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Syntactic and semantic specialization in 9- to 10-year-old children during auditory sentence processing by Jin Wang, Neelima Wagley, Mabel Rice, Nadine Gaab, James R. Booth

“…Using functional magnetic resonance imaging and multi-voxel pattern analysis, our previous studies investigated brain activity during morpho-syntactic versus semantic processing. …”
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The English conative alternation between complexity effects and lexical biases: a historical perspective by Eva Zehentner

“…This paper presents an in-depth study of the English conative construction (hit the ball vs hit at the ball), a particular case of variation between NP- and PP-patterns. Approaching the phenomenon from a usage-based, cognitive perspective, the study is interested in the different factors driving this alternation, specifically in the interaction of lexical effects on the one hand and high-level predictors relating to processing complexity on the other hand. …”
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Phonosemantic component of bilingual mental lexicon: word recognition models and lexical selection mechanisms by S.O. Gaivoronskaya

“…</strong> The method of psycholinguistic experiment on lexical decision making has been used earlier in studies of speech pathologies and other pathological conditions, but it is the main means of studying national language consciousness to reveal patterns in word identification. …”
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Discourse-organising lexical bundles in academic law textbooks: a corpus-based analysis by Abdullah Alasmary

“…By utilising corpus analysis and linguistic descriptions of patterns, this list will help international students and early-career legal practitioners meet the lexical demands of law study and training in English-medium institutions.…”
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Neural processing of Mandarin and Cantonese lexical tone alternations: implications for the nature of phonological representations by Joseph C.Y. Lau, Patrick C.M. Wong

“…This study tests the hypothesis that phonological representations are neurocognitive primitives that modulate speech processing and lexical access. We examined the processing of two surface-similar, but distributionally distinct lexical tone alternation patterns in Mandarin and Cantonese. …”
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Lexical richness in Chinese university students’ EFL writing: a corpus-based comparison by Yang Yang, Xubo He

“…However, they exhibit lower mean ranks of lexical sophistication and variation, showing distinct patterns compared to ENL writing. …”
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Lexical Bundles: A Focused Framework for Enhancing Vocabulary and Syntax in English Composition Courses by Sally Kondos

“…The study explored the correlation between teaching lexical bundles and improving writing skills in English composition courses. …”
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Foreign Languages and Aesopianisation: When the Popularity of Fables Unlocks Spanish by Kassim Boudjelal Safir

“…Employing content analysis, this article delves into the application of narrative popularity effect (NPE) (1), linguistic context predictability (LCP) (2), lexical interlingual cognates (LIC) (3), and collocational patterns (CP) (4) as four useful linguistic tools to solve one of the most daunting educational challenges: unlocking a foreign language through detailed analytical reading. …”
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Symbolic Machine Learning: A Different Answer to the Problem of the Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge from Corpora by Pascale Sébillot

“…One relevant way to structure the domain of lexical knowledge (e.g. relations between lexical units) acquisition from corpora is to oppose numerical versus symbolic techniques. …”
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The effects of word and beat priming on Mandarin lexical stress recognition: an event-related potential study by Wenjing Yu, Yu-Fu Chien, Bing Wang, Jianjun Zhao, Weijun Li

“…The current study investigates how musical stress and lexical stress influence lexical stress recognition in Mandarin. …”
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