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Phonetic Effects in the Perception of VOT in a Prevoicing Language

Brain Sciences, 2022
Previous production studies have reported differential amounts of closure voicing in plosives depending on the location of the oral constriction (anterior vs. posterior), vocalic context (high vs. low vowels), and speaker sex.
Viktor Kharlamov
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Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1997
The inference of the evolutionary history of a set of languages is a complex problem. Although some languages are known to be related through descent from common ancestral languages, for other languages determining whether such a relationship holds is itself a difficult problem.
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Enhancing L2 Confidence Through Learning Diaries: A Replication Study on Italian Lower-Secondary School Students [PDF]

Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal
Drawing on the literature on self-confidence, motivational theories, and positive psychology in the field of language learning, the present paper aspires to contribute to the literature by discussing some key findings of a recent conceptual replication
Marcella Menegale, Lucia Spricigo
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The Comparative Method in Synchronic Linguistics: The Case of Word Order

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2020
In this article I discuss the comparative method in formal linguistics when applied to word order phenomena in Italian, English and German. I argue that the comparison has to rest on sound theoretical basis in order to reach interesting conclusions ...
Alessandra Giorgi
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A Fork in the Road: Grammatical Gender Assignment to Nouns in Spanish Dialects

Languages, 2023
Spanish nouns are classified as either feminine or masculine. Although some nouns vary depending on their denotation (such as niño ‘male child’ vs. niña ‘female child’), in most cases a fixed gender is assigned.
Florencio Del Barrio de la Rosa
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In Defense of Literary Truth: A Response to Truth, Fiction, and Literature by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen to Inquire into No-Truth Theories of Literature, Pragmatism, and the Ontology of Fictional Objects

Literature, 2022
This article responds to the arguments put forth by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen in Truth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (1994).
Paolo Pitari
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Blue Chambers, Bluebooks, and Contes Bleus: Gothic Terror and Female Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Adaptations of ‘Bluebeard’

Humanities, 2023
With its suspenseful atmosphere, mysterious and murderous male protagonist, and magical objects, it is hardly surprising that Charles Perrault’s conte bleu ‘La Barbe bleue’ (1697) was the inspiration for numerous Gothic tales in the nineteenth century ...
Alessandro Cabiati
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TRANSLATION AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2012
TRADUCEREA ŞI LINGVISTICA COMPARATIVĂ Traducerea necesită confruntarea nu doar a structurilor semantice ale unităţilor lexicale, ci şi a categoriilor gramaticale, lexical-gramaticale, fonologice şi stilistice din limbile respective.
USM ADMIN
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Stress and stem allomorphy in the Romance perfectum: emergence, typology, and motivations of a symbiotic relation

Linguistics, 2022
Perfective stem allomorphy and stress are morphological traits which interact in complex ways in Romance verbal inflection. This article surveys the whole range of variation of these traits across Romance varieties, typologizes the observed interactions ...
Herce Borja
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Books to the Masses! An Investigation of Russian WWI ‘Dime Stories’

Literature, 2023
The impact of WWI on Russian society was immediately disruptive. This effect affected every sphere of social and cultural environs. Although previous research has established that WWI was a major topic of the cultural discourse of that time, the way in ...
Luca Cortesi
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