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On the Temporal and Aspectual Value of Modern Eastern Armenian Aorist: A Comparative Perspective

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014
In this research we study some syntactic and semantic properties of the Modern Eastern Armenian aorist by comparing it to similar verbal forms in English and Italian.
Alessandra Giorgi, Sona Haroutyunian
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Self-Efficacy in Multimodal Narrative Educational Activities: Explorative Study in a Multicultural and Multilingual Italian Primary School

Media and Communication, 2019
The international migration changed the situation in the Italian school system: it is asked to update educational practices with new pedagogical models of narration and expression (multiliteracies and multimodality) and to promote digital skills from ...
Monica Banzato, Francesca Coin
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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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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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HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS AND ITS THE DEVELOPMENT

, 2023
The article discusses the problem of terminological differentiation of two disciplines as part of comparative linguistics, studying related languages in diachronic (compare historical linguistics) and in synchrony; for terminological marking of the ...
Karimova Nigina
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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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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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