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L’utilisation pédagogique des textes du concours Ar Falz
This article uses an original medium for dialectological study: the essays of Breton-speaking children who do not master the spelling of the Breton language, written between 1952 and 1965 as part of the inter-school competitions organised by the Ar Falz ...
Nelly Blanchard
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Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault +2 more
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Le changement de langue (en Basse-Bretagne) : pour une approche centrée sur le sujet parlant
This article analyzes the linguistic change that occurred between the two generations in the second half of the 20th century in Western Brittany and the interruption of the intergenerational transmission of the Breton language, through a study of the ...
Ronan L’Hourre
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National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country [PDF]
We argue that preferences for secession are the expression of common unobserved factors determining national identity, and accordingly that identity matters.
Joan Costa Font, Ramon Tremosa Balcells
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Breton-language media: opportunities and challenges
This article presents findings from a number of interviews carried out with Breton-language professionals regarding their consumption of and participation in media in both Breton and French. The issues raised highlight some of the advantages that media in minoritized languages can offer, as well as the issues they may need to overcome in order to reach
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Évolutions anciennes et récentes en breton
Breton is a language that has undergone a great deal of change, especially over the last century, with the transition from an almost monolingual to a bilingual society. We propose here to take a quick look at two aspects of Breton's evolution; the first,
Léon Fleuriot
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Punctuation effects in English and Esperanto texts
A statistical physics study of punctuation effects on sentence lengths is presented for written texts: {\it Alice in wonderland} and {\it Through a looking glass}. The translation of the first text into esperanto is also considered as a test for the role
Ausloos +37 more
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Word length distributions in modern Welsh prose texts. [PDF]
This paper examines the distribution of word lengths in 12 prose texts written in modern Welsh (a P-Celtic language). The texts belong to the genres of new articles and Bible translation.
Wilson, Andrew
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The Celtic Languages in the Age of Globalisation: Problems and Possibilities [In Russian] [PDF]
The article discusses the current state of Celtic languages in the UK and Republic of Ireland, as affected by recent developments in globalization and devolution.
Bissell, Christopher
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NP would like to meet GF: A Welsh Adjectival Construction [PDF]
In this article we examine a Welsh adjectival construction which superficially looks simple but on closer examination proves to be somewhat challenging. The construction contains an NP constituent whose GF status is far from clear.
Mittendorf, I, Sadler, L
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