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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019 Based on original data collected through an online experiment, evidence is provided in this paper that the interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language like Chinese relies on the topic criterion proposed for consistent and partial pro ...
Frascarelli Mara, Casentini Marco
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Indirect adverbial clauses in chinese
Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale, 1991 Indirect adverbial clauses are clauses with a conditional form that do not seem to give conditions, clauses with a temporal form that do not seem to indicate the time etc. For instance, the indirect conditional If you're hungry, there's food in the fridge differs semantically from the direct conditional If you're hungry, I'll give you something to eat.
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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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Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 Constructions commonly called adverbial clauses in traditional grammar are seen in Functional Grammar (FG) as expressions of satellites. FG's multi-layered model of the abstract underlying clause structure assumes each single layer consists of a certain
Kwee Tjoe Liong
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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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The distribution of functional types of clefts in adverbial clauses [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents the results of corpus research on the distribution of different functional-pragmatic types of it-clefts and c'est-clefts in English and French adverbial clauses.
Borremans, Marijke, Lahousse, Karen
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We examined neural responses to probabilistic syntactic information during skilled L2 reading. English L2 readers from Spanish, Korean, and Chinese L1 backgrounds, with varying levels of English proficiency, read naturalistic texts from The New York Times while electroencephalography (EEG) data were recorded.
Lin Chen +3 more
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, 2020 The experimental tool used was Variable Binding in order to investigate the degree of integration of German peripheral adverbial clauses introduced by adversative während 'while, whereas' and by concessive obwohl 'although', and German central adverbial ...
von Wietersheim, Sophie +1 more
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Temporal adverbial clauses in spoken lithuanian. [PDF]
, 2021 The final paper examines temporal adverbial clauses in spoken Lithuanian. The aim of this study is to investigate these sentences and to identify their semantic meaning, main features of predicates.
Bacevičiūtė, Janina,
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Chosen by God: Providential Suffering and Divine Writing in the Morisco Diaspora
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay reconsiders the anonymous sonnet ‘Y Dios, que a los suyos padeciendo mira’ preserved in the Prologue of MS 11/9394 S‐2 (Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia), a Morisco codex produced near Tunis between 1630 and 1650. As a key yet subtle rhetorical hinge in the text's Prologue, the sonnet establishes MS 11/9394 S‐2 within ...
Andrea Pauw
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