Insubordination in language and grammar refers to an intriguing phenomenon whereby constructions typically designated as subordinate are repurposed to function independently in discourse. Such clauses ...

BC Computer Science Asst. Prof. Emily Prud'hommeaux has received an R21 research grant from the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders in the National Institutes of Health ...

The purpose of this study was to provide a framework for better understanding the process of question development in a second language. The English questions initiated by four English-Spanish second ...

This paper offers an empirical examination of topicalization in contemporary Hebrew literature. A corpus chosen to reflect contemporary Hebrew prose was examined for topicalization, and the structures ...

A study published on 21 May in Child Development shows that the early production of beat gestures with the hands (i.e., gestures normally associated with emphasis that do not represent the semantic ...