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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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John Lydgate’s Use of Prepositions and Adverbs Meaning ‘Between’
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2016 The aim of the present study is to thoroughly analyse the prepositions and adverbs meaning ‘between’ in the works of a Late Middle English poet John Lydgate.
Ciszek-Kiliszewska Ewa
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Translation Shift in the Translated Novel of “to Kill a Mockingbird” by Femmy Syahrianni [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this study were to find out category shift types used in thetranslation of novel To Kill A Bird and to describe of how category shift is translatedin the novel from English into Indonesian.
Zainuddin, D. S. (Dian)
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We closely replicated Ellis and Sagarra (2010b), a seminal study that demonstrated clear effects of blocking in second language (L2) learning. In that study, English‐speaking learners completed different types of pretraining about Latin temporal expressions (adverbs, verbs, none) to investigate how knowledge about specific cues influenced L2 ...
Kevin McManus +5 more
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Weak function word shift [PDF]
, 2004 The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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De l’adverbe de manière au marqueur discursif : le cas de autrement [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2019 The present research focuses on the French adverb autrement, which is characterized by a wide range of uses. This allows it to function not only as an adverb of manner that modifies the verb, but also as a discourse marker that the speaker employs to ...
Céline Corteel
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Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts : an introduction [PDF]
, 2003 One aspect of the progress being made is that the focus of attention has widened. Adverbials, though still the heart of the matter, now form part of a much larger set of constituent types subsumed under the general syntactic label of adjunct; while ...
Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine +2 more
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Crowdsourcing Universal Part-Of-Speech Tags for Code-Switching
, 2017 Code-switching is the phenomenon by which bilingual speakers switch between multiple languages during communication. The importance of developing language technologies for codeswitching data is immense, given the large populations that routinely code ...
Hirschberg, Julia, Soto, Victor
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Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Francesca Gardner
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