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Exploring Distribution‐of‐Practice Effects on L2 Grammar Learning Among Older Adults
Abstract This paper examines the effects of practice distribution among older adult learners of L2 English, an understudied population in both second language acquisition and distributed practice research. Additionally, it considers the effects of proficiency and age.
Raquel Serrano, Anna Gawlikowicz
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Process, eventuality and wieder/again [PDF]
This paper argues for a scopal explanation of the readings of the adverb wieder (‘again’). It is the syntactic entity that wieder is related to which determines whether the repetitive or the restitutive reading obtains.
Pittner, Karin
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Intermediate English Grammar in Use Materi ini berisikan tentang deskripsi, fungsi dan penggunaan struktur Adverb ...
Rayhan Bustam, Muhammad
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Functional Transposition of After from a Diachronic Perspective
The paper aims at tracing the origin of the preposition, adverb, and conjunction after, starting with the first examples registered before 850; distinguishing the primary and transposed categories; and reconstructing the process of functional ...
Yurii Kovbasko
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The Adverb plus Complementizer Construction in French and Romanian [PDF]
補文標識を伴う文副詞の構文は、ルーマニア語やフランス語の伝統文法では古くから知られている。大変興味深い構造を持っているが、今まで、生成文法の枠組みでは、あまり注目されてこなかった。本研究では、フランス語とルーマニア語を用いて、この構文に関する比較研究を行う。その目的は、相違を明らかにしたうえで、この構文の特徴をよりよく理解し、理論的に解くべき問題を提示することにある。The adverb plus complementizer construction has been known for quite ...
4728, Lupsa, Cornelia Daniela
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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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Abstract Strategic word mimicry during negotiations facilitates better outcomes. We explore mimicry of specific word categories and perceptions of rapport, trust, and liking as underlying mechanisms. Dyads took part in an online negotiation exercise in which word mimicry was manipulated: Participants were instructed to mimic each other’s words (both ...
Kate Muir +4 more
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On some aspectual adverbs – in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish – that seem ambiguous
We turn to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Chilean Spanish (CS) in our study of some aspectual adverbs which, according to Cinque (1999, 2004), have a dual source both concerning their position in the universal hierarchy of adverbs and their scope.
Aquiles Tescari Neto +1 more
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Interessant nok: ein produktiv setnings- adverbialkonstruksjon
Norsk har éin produktiv konstruksjon som dannar setningsadverbial. Det er uttrykk bygde opp av eit adjektiv i positiv ubestemt eintal inkjekjønn og nok, t.d. sant nok, besynderlig nok og dustete nok.
Torodd Kinn
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