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Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
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On the evolution of articles into agreement markers in Romanian and Albanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2013 This paper tries to elucidate the processes by which former determiners became preposed agreement markers in Romanian and Albanian. In both languages, these markers introduce genitives, agreeing possessors and ordinals.
Ion Giurgea
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Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of ethnic diversity on occupational choices, particularly in care‐oriented occupations which are scarce in many high‐income countries. We use administrative data of all students in Switzerland to study two diversity dimensions: ethnic fractionalization and ethnic polarization.
Damiano Pregaldini +2 more
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Transethnic coalition-building: definitions, practices and possibilities [PDF]
, 2015 No abstract ...
Smith, David J.
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The Agencies of the European Union: A Glimmer of Hope for Enlargement?
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In recent years, the process of EU enlargement has become increasingly difficult. The longer the process drags on and the less likely accession appears, the more the candidate states are discouraged and the less influential the EU becomes. A different approach to integration must therefore be used.
Matis Poussardin
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02 Semantic relations among the greek borrowings in albanian language
International Journal of Social and Educational Innovation, 2015 The borrowings from Greek into Albanian have entered at different times, for one reason or another and in different circumstances. They are found in the entire lexical structure of Albanian language, almost in all the layers and the paradigmatic groups ...
Sofia DELIGIORGI
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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Languages, ethnicity, and education in London [PDF]
For the first time in 2008 the Annual School Census (ASC) required all schools to provide pupil information on the language spoken at home. Our analysis focuses on children attending state schools in London. Over 300 languages are spoken by London pupils,
Charley Greenwood +3 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Previous work on legitimacy has conceptualized its multi‐level nature, encompassing individual‐level propriety and collective‐level validity. Recently, scholars have introduced the construct of consensus, the degree to which evaluators agree in terms of their propriety beliefs.
Patrick Haack +2 more
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Interculturalism and Cosmopolitan Nationalism of the Albanian National Upheaval
SEEU ReviewThis paper investigates the intellectual and political ideas of the Albanian National Movement within the broader framework of intercultural communication, with particular attention to education, language practices, and human rights.
Arifi Teuta
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