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The Word Order and Prosody of Polish Constructions with Subject-oriented Evaluative Adverbs and Their Impact on the Meaning of These Structures (Part 1)

Studies in Polish Linguistics
The article examines the impact of word order and prosody on the meaning of constructions with evaluative adverbs in Polish.
Izabela Duraj-Nowosielska
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Adverbialized individual words and adverbs without suffixes in Lithuanian slang and non-normative language and their adaptative features

Lietuvių Kalba, 2020
here are a number of adverbialized individual words and adverbs without suffixes in Lithuanian slang and non-normative language. Most of them are assimilated borrowings adapted to the language system.
Robertas Kudirka
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Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach [PDF]

, 2009
This is a pre-publication version of Vainikka, A. and M. Young-Scholten. 2009. Successful features: Verb raising and adverbs in L2 acquisition under an Organic Grammar approach. In N. Snape, I. Y-K. Leung and Mike Sharwood Smith (eds.) Representational
Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
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Medial adjunct PPs in English: implications for the syntax of sentential negation [PDF]

, 2012
This paper provides evidence that medial adjunct PPs in English are possible. On the basis of corpus data, it is shown that sentence-medial adjunct PPs are not unacceptable and are attested.
Belletti, Chomsky, Chomsky, Cinque, De Clercq, De Clercq, Emonds, Ernst, Ernst, Frey, Haegeman, Horn, Horn, Jackendoff, Jayaseelan, Karen De Clercq, Klima, Lambotte, Liliane Haegeman, McCawley, Moscati, Pittner, Quirk, Rizzi, Ross, Sinclair, Smith, Swan, Terje Lohndal, Tottie, Tubau, Zanuttini, Zeijlstra   +32 more
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Balancing the Cognitive Highwire: The Effect of CEO–TMT Shared Cognition on Radical Innovation and Innovation Efficiency

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Radical innovation and innovation efficiency are important for a firm's competitive advantage. Past research has established that the firm's upper echelons disproportionately contribute to the radicalness and efficiency of innovation efforts.
David Lohmar, Christopher Albert Sabel, Stephan Nüesch   +2 more
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English flat adverbs and adjectives

ELAD-SILDA
The boundaries and the complementarity of the adjective and adverb word classes in English are blurred in standard English by the existence of a limited number of flat adverbs, i.e.
Romain Delhem
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Spanish spatial deictic adverbs: interpretation and discourse functioning with depersonalizing constructions

Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics, 2018
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which spatial deictic adverbs function in Spanish. More concretely, through an analysis of spatial deictic adverbs used with depersonalizing constructions, I show how, in the absence of person deictic forms, the ...
Barbara De Cock
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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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Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)

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, Kelly Bayas, Katherine Kerschen, Yulia Khoruzhaya, Jingyuan Zhuang, Alex Magnuson   +5 more
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Error Correction Learning of Second Language Verbal Morphology: Associating Imperfect Contingencies in Naturalistic Frequency Distributions

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, Petar Milin, Dagmar Divjak   +2 more
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