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Brazilian portuguese prepositional clitics prosodization: what do writing data reveal?

Raído, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to analyses hyposegmentations (e.g. “de novo” to “de novo”) and hypersegmentations (e.g. “de pois” to “de pois”) with the aim to discuss how these data structure reveal clues related to prepositional clitics prosodization of ...
Lilian Maria da Silva
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The Subword‐Character Multi‐Scale Transformer With Learnable Positional Encoding for Machine Translation

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2025.
The method achieves significant performance breakthroughs in machine translation through deep integration of linguistic features at different granularities. ABSTRACT The transformer model addresses the efficiency bottleneck caused by sequential computation in traditional recurrent neural networks (RNN) by leveraging the self‐attention mechanism to ...
Wenjing Yao, Wei Zhou
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality

, 2008
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena   +1 more
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Investigating clitics in adult L2 Greek

, 2023
We investigated the role of uninterpretable features (Chomsky 1995) in L2 Greek clitics. Oral production data were obtained from 65 adults who were divided into three L1 groups, Albanian, English and Georgian. The L1s under investigation differ from each
Danavassi, Terpsi, Agathopoulou, Eleni
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“Move vs. Agree”: the case of Clitic Doubling [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012
This paper continues the long-standing discussion whether clitics in clitic doubling constructionsshould be regarded as being similar to affixes expressing subject-verb agreement or rather as reflexes ofmovement.
Mihaela Adriana Marchis
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics

, 2013
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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Clitics, case and word order in Yagua

, 1988
From the introduction: [...] Clitics which double objects in Yagua are called Set II clitics. All other clitics are referred to as Set I clitics. In this paper, I argue that the relationship between Set I clitics and Set II clitics, and the effect of ...
Everett, Daniel L.
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The acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation

, 2013
The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying
Marinis, Theodore
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Generating Pashto Clitics [PDF]

, 2017
Automatically generating a natural text that is perceived as grammatically correct remains a challenging task. The generated text must at least be coherent, accurate, and understandable.
Aziz, Ud Din
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