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English rationale since and a reassessment of the typology of adverbial clauses
, 2023 This chapter examines the syntactic and semantic properties of English causal adverbial clauses, starting from the fact that the conjunctions since and as can both introduce either a temporal clause or a rationale clause.
Fleczoreck, Constanzeeditor +3 more
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Linguistic TypologyOne construction that has traditionally been neglected in the typological study of clause-linkage is that built on ‘let alone’ (e.g., the baby can’t even talk, let alone walk).
Olguín Martínez Jesús
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Clause chaining and the utterance phrase: Syntax–prosody mapping in Matukar Panau
Open Linguistics, 2021 Clause chaining is a form of syntactic dependency holding between a series of clauses, typically expressing temporal or causal relations between events. Prosodic hierarchy theory proposes that syntactic constituents are systematically mapped to prosodic ...
Mansfield John, Barth Danielle
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Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Reading comprehension in individuals with intellectual disabilities is shaped by linguistic complexity and cognitive processing demands. Easy‐to‐Read (E2R) adaptations aim to reduce these demands, yet empirical evidence on their effects in narrative texts remains limited.
Isam Diab‐Lozano +2 more
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Expression of purpose rhetorical relation in formal speeches and oral interviews
Calidoscópio, 2011 Besides the explicit content conveyed by the clausesof a text, there are implicit propositions called relational propositions (also labeled as rhetorical relations), which arise from the combination of parts of the text. According to Rhetorical Structure
Juliano Desiderato Antonio
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Clause and predicative constituents in an Austronesian language: Lampung language
Topics in Linguistics, 2020 This research is conducted qualitatively and aimed at patterning and describing clause and sentence structure in Lampung language through the configuration of its constituents.
Afrianto +4 more
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Word Predictability as a Measure of Second Language Proficiency
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract This study introduces predictabilityBERT, a novel metric for assessing second language (L2) proficiency based on the predictability of word choices in learner language production. Using BERT (Devlin et al., 2019), we calculated the conditional probability of each word in a text given its surrounding context.
Langdon Holmes +3 more
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Adverbial Clause Usage and Gender in English, Spanish, and French
, 2016 This study examines adverbial clause usage by women and men in three contexts: (1) single-gender and mixed-gender meetings of a US social club, (2) single-gender and mixed gender dyads speaking Ecuadorean Spanish, and (3) French speakers in informal ...
McGarry, Theresa, Mwinyelle, J.
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Exploring Subordinate Clauses In The Story Of An Hour
IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)This is a brief analysis of subordinate clauses found in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour. Three types of clauses were identified according to their function within the complex sentences to which they belong.
Wa’özisökhi Nazara
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Ce dans les incises en français médiéval (12e s. -16e s.) [PDF]
Studii de Lingvistica, 2020 This study explores the use of the item CE – translated variously in English by this, that or it – in medieval quotative frames. It investigates the gradual decrease in the attested occurrences of the item and proposes two hypothesis in order to ...
Daniéla Capin
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