Parallel and comparable corpora: What are they up to? [PDF]
With ever increasing international exchange and accelerated globalisation, translation and contrastive studies are more popular than ever. As part of this new wave of research on translation and contrastive studies, corpora, and multilingual corpora in ...
Xiao, R. Z., McEnery, A. M.
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Deutsch als lingua franca: Bericht über ein forschungsbasiertes Lehrprojekt der 4EU+Allianz [PDF]
This paper presents an overview of the activities and results of the European Network of German and Contrastive Linguistics (GerCoLiNet), which was part of the European University Alliance 4EU+ (May 2021 – June 2022).
Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
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Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of "discourse-new" [PDF]
New evidence is provided for a grammatical principle that singles out contrastive focus (Rooth 1996; Truckenbrodt 1995) and distinguishes it from discourse-new “informational” focus.
Selkirk, Elisabeth
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Chackelis Lemchenas, a contrastive linguist before contrastive linguistics
The article explores the views of Chackelis Lemchenas (1904– 2001) on teaching Lithuanian to speakers of other languages. As a prominent linguist, experienced practitioner, and a multilingual person, he proposed ideas that are compatible with the principles of contrastive linguistics already in the 1920s.
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Projective vs. interpretational properties of nuclear accents and the phonology of contrastive focus in Greek [PDF]
Georgakopoulos T, Skopeteas S. Projective vs. interpretational properties of nuclear accents and the phonology of contrastive focus in Greek. Linguistic Review. 2010;27(3):319-346.Nuclear accents have two interesting properties.
Georgakopoulos, Thanasis +4 more
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Dense Contrastive Visual-Linguistic Pretraining [PDF]
Inspired by the success of BERT, several multimodal representation learning approaches have been proposed that jointly represent image and text. These approaches achieve superior performance by capturing high-level semantic information from large-scale multimodal pretraining.
Lam Pham +8 more
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African linguistics across the disciplines [PDF]
Since the hiring of its first Africanist linguist Carleton Hodge in 1964, Indiana University’s Department of Linguistics has had a strong and continuing presence in the study of African languages and linguistics through the work of its faculty and of its
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Contrastive Visual-Linguistic Pretraining
Several multi-modality representation learning approaches such as LXMERT and ViLBERT have been proposed recently. Such approaches can achieve superior performance due to the high-level semantic information captured during large-scale multimodal pretraining.
Lei Shi 0002 +8 more
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De la notion de corpus dans les études contrastives en langues : choix, outils et exploitation
The Notion of Corpus in Contrastive Language Studies: Choices, tools and exploitation Since past decades, Contrastive Linguistics is in search of ways for its development. Such a situation results from the fact that the scientific context nowadays is
Paul Fonkoua, Auguste Bayiha
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Die Anwendung kontrastiver Linguistik in der Methodik des Fremdsprachenunterrichts
In recent years, works have been carried out at international level on the fundamentals of a new comparative linguistics which, unlike the comparative-historical method of young grammarians, do not only study genetically related languages.
Mihaela Hristea
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