Linguistics Journal Volume 11 Issue 1 2017

Linguistics Journal Volume 11 Issue 1 2017

Foreword by Biljana Čubrović

Research Articles

1. A Comparative Study of Appraisal in News Discourse in China and the United States: The Case of Reports on Educational Equity
   Ming Wei
2. The Influence of Autogenic Training on Listening Comprehension in the English Classroom
   Danijela Ikonic and Thomas Hawes
3. The Tonal Constraints on Vietnamese Perception of English Stress
   Anh-Thư T. Nguyễn
4. Psycholinguistic Analysis of Operational Communication (Part I): the Standard Usage of Communication in High Risk Industries
   Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine
5. A Quantitative Study of the Japanese Particle GA
   Masako Hoye

Research Notes

1. ‘Are You Black Hen?’- Wordplay Among Teenage Vietnamese Bilinguals
   Thuy Nga Nguyen
2. Gambits Across Genres: A Corpus Study
   Amir Nikmehr and Massood Yazdanimoghaddam
3. The Treatment of Vowel-Initial Syllables in Somali Syllable Structure: A Constraint-Based Approach
   Mufleh Alqahtani
4. Postpositions in Mazandarani: Evidence for Generalizing, Historical Harmony and Natural Serialization
   Principle
   Zahra Abolhassani Chimeh and Musa Nushi
5. A Corpus-Based Investigation of Dative Alternation in Use of the Verbs ‘Give’ and ‘Send’: A Sample of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
   Mustafa Yıldız
6. Low Back Merger in Native and Nonnative Speakers of American English
   Biljana Čubrović

Book Reviews

1. When What Sounds Interesting Becomes Fascinating: Review of Recent Publications by John C. Wells
   Ružica Ivanović