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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
wiley   +1 more source

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, Scott Crossley, Wesley Morris, Joon Suh Choi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
wiley   +1 more source

Multifaceted Role of Multilevel Statistical and Linguistic Information From Target Language in Predicting Second Language Verb–Preposition and Verb–Particle Construction Production

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores how statistical properties of verb–preposition and verb–particle constructions (VPCs) and their interplay in the target language shape second language (L2) production across L2 proficiency levels. We compared phrasal frequency and three contingency measures—mutual information (MI), forward delta P (ΔP), and backward ΔP—of ...
Yanlu Zhong
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding culture, memory and trauma in asylum interviews: A mixed‐methods systematic review and meta‐analysis

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Asylum seekers often struggle to recall and report their experiences during asylum interviews. This may occur for several reasons, ranging from communication challenges in high‐context cultures (relying more on indirect and context‐oriented communication) and low‐context cultures (relying more on direct and explicit communication) to ...
Md Yeasir Yunus, Lorraine Hope, Tanja S. van Veldhuizen, Jonathan Koppel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MADOran: A morphologically annotated dataset of OranMendeley Data

Data in Brief
This paper introduces a new morphologically annotated dataset for the Orani Arabic dialect (ORN), comprising 30,919 words gathered from diverse genres, including written language (41 %) which cover topics such as culture, history, politics, recipes ...
Majdi Sawalha, Faisal Al-Shargi, Sane Yagi, Wafa Kasha, Abdallah T. AlShdaifat, Mohammad A. Qudah, Najla Alnaqbi   +6 more
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DARTS: Dialectal Arabic Transcription System

CoRR, 2019
We present the speech to text transcription system, called DARTS, for low resource Egyptian Arabic dialect. We analyze the following; transfer learning from high resource broadcast domain to low-resource dialectal domain and semi-supervised learning where we use in-domain unlabeled audio data collected from YouTube.
Sameer Khurana, Ahmed Ali 0002, James R. Glass   +2 more
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AlgVec: A word embedding model for the algerian dialect in arabic and arabizi

Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences
This paper introduces AlgVec, a suite of word embedding models trained specifically for the Algerian dialect, a linguistically rich but under-resourced variety of Arabic.
Lamia Ouchene, Sadik Bessou
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Samples of Terms and Expressions Related to Turkish Proverbs and Their Counterparts in the Mosul Dialect.

آداب الرافدين
There is a deeply rooted linguistic relationship between Turkish and Arabic, and it is well-known that the Arabic language has significantly influenced the Turkish language.
حسن محمد فرحان فرحان
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