Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York
Working papers in Applied Linguistics and Linguistics at York (WALLY) aims to turn students’ scholarly work into publications that are accessible both within and beyond the institution. WALLY welcomes submissions of research papers from any graduate and undergraduate students at York University whose work is connected to the broad fields of linguistics and applied linguistics. We accept quantitative and qualitative research (including case studies and autoethnographies), and we encourage the submission of literature reviews, novel class papers, works in progress, and other forms of student research at York University. For more detailed information on our scope, please see the Aims & Scope section on our About page.
You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
On the prosody of reported speech in Seoul Korean
This paper investigates the use of prosodic cues to indicate reported speech (RS) in Seoul Korean. Previous research on reported speech prosody shows that speakers use a variety of prosodic cues to delineate the boundaries of reported speech. Korean differs from many of the languages in the RS prosody literature in the framing of RS segments, in that the RS segment is embedded in a structure with both an initial and end frame, and a quotative morpheme follows the RS segment. The results show that in direct speech examples, two prosodic boundaries are marked, with the onset of the direct speech being indicated by a strong boundary, and the offset by a weak boundary. Indirect speech, in contrast, only has one prosodic boundary marked. The location of these prosodic boundaries as well as their strength can be predicted by the type of φ-phrase and its relationship to adjacent φ-phrases.
Copyright (c) 2026 Makaila Johnston https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Socialization practice of greetings among the Southeastern Igbo of Nigeria
Language socialization has been linked to infants’ language acquisition in that as children learn the language spoken in their environment, they are also encultured. Children or newcomers learning a language assimilate the community’s cultural ideologies alongside the language itself. This present study focuses on the Igbo greeting social practice and values and beliefs system around it in Southeastern Nigeria. The theoretical concepts of linguistic socialization and acquisition were used in a dynamic combination. An autobiographical approach to self-reflection was deployed to present evidence of how infants and children are socialized into the Southeastern Nigerian Igbo greeting social practice. Through the concept of ọ́zụ̀zụ̀, Igbo caregivers and/or mothers train children to acquire existing communal greeting systems to perform in culturally acceptable ways. The study highlights that children are also socialized into the appropriate address terms used for adult community members, simultaneously with greetings.
Copyright (c) 2026 Vivian Kaosisochukwu Ejiaso https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0