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Balancing language planning and language rights: Catalonia's uneasy juggling act [PDF]
, 2000 In the 1980s, language planning in Catalonia was carried out against a background of general consensus that major language recovery measures were needed in order to improve the linguistic and sociolinguistic situation of Catalan.
Hoffmann, C
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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Random incidence matrices: moments of the spectral density
, 2001 We study numerically and analytically the spectrum of incidence matrices of random labeled graphs on N vertices : any pair of vertices is connected by an edge with probability p.
Bauer, M., Golinelli, O.
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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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The quality of the Catalan and Spanish education systems: A perspective from PISA [PDF]
For Catalonia and Spain, public perception is that the PISA reports show that their education systems are underperforming. The goal of this chapter is to quantify how much of the Catalan and Spanish PISA score can be attributed to the education levels of
Ciccone, Antonio, Garcia-Fontes, Walter
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The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
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Combining data-driven MT systems for improved sign language translation [PDF]
, 2007 In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of combining two data-driven machine translation (MT) systems for the translation of sign languages (SLs).
Bungeroth, Jan +4 more
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Fostering Creativity Through Educational Interventions in Higher Education: A Systematic Review
The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Creativity has gained relevance over the years in education, and especially recently due to its consideration as a transversal competency in higher education, but there is still a lack of integration of knowledge. This qualitative systematic review explores literature on educational interventions designed to enhance creativity and investigates
Carlota Rodríguez‐Silva +2 more
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No Difference in Face Scanning Patterns Between Monolingual and Bilingual Infants at 5 Months of Age
Developmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that bilinguals take greater advantage of visual speech cues than monolinguals. Therefore, in a sample of 474 (47.3% females) monolingual and 101 (48.5% females) bilingual infants at 5 months of age, we examined the tendency to look at the eyes versus the mouth of dynamic faces, as well as the latency and ratio of looking
Charlotte Viktorsson +1 more
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Wh-questions in Catalan sign language
, 2016 S'ofereix una caracterització i una anàlisi de les preguntes-que en Llengua de Signes Catalana, que presenten la particularitat d'ubicar preferentment les expressions-qu al final de l'oració. Aquesta característica, pròpia de les llengües de signes, ha estat difícil de tractar des de models tradicionals, que sovint han considerat que el moviment-qu és ...
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