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Cross-linguistic Register Variation
A current trend in contrastive corpus linguistics is to take register variation as a point of departure for identifying similarities and differences across languages. This volume looks back at central previous contributions in this area, and adds to our store of knowledge in the form of nine studies comparing English to five other languages in a wide ...openaire +1 more source
Modeling the cross-linguistic variations of tonal systems
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2016This study aims to simulate the cross-linguistic variations of tonal systems with low dimensional models. Individual syllables of Mandarin, Yoruba, southern Yi, and Hmong were retrieved from existing speech corpora. Voice quality measures as well as f0 were extracted for all data.
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of L3 variation
2022Abstract This chapter addresses stylistic and obligatory variation in third language (L3) argument realization patterns. It focuses on the effects of formal second language (L2) learning experience, typological proximity, and five linguistic factors (discourse type, clause type, verb ...
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Cross-linguistic variation in language similarity classification.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2009This study aims at identifying factors that make language sound structures seem more or less similar to English, and how those similarity judgments change according to the listener’s native language. Listeners from four different native language groups (English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Turkish) sorted a group of 17 genetically and geographically ...
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Conclusions: Grammatical Conservatism and Cross-Linguistic Variation
2007Abstract In the preceding chapters I first surveyed the leading theories of exactly what the child must acquire, in order to know the syntax and phonology of her native language. I then turned to the ways in which acquisitional data can be used to evaluate such theories.
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Cross-Linguistic Variation And The Present Perfect:The Case Of Portuguese
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2001The Present Perfect in Portuguese has the curious property of forcing iteration of the eventuality described. This paper proposes an account of the iterativity in terms of selectional restrictions of the Present Tense and independent properties of the Perfect and argues against the account of Giorgi and Pianesi (1997) in which the Portuguese Present ...
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Cross-linguistic voice variations in Korean-English bilinguals
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of AmericaLanguages often exhibit distinct pitch ranges and voice qualities. To investigate how bilingual speakers modulate their voice quality and pitch in their two languages, this study examines voice variation in Korean-English bilingual speakers. We recorded 30 Korean-English bilinguals (F = 15, all more dominant in Korean) reading “The North Wind and the ...
Haneul Lee, Harim Kwon
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Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition
Second Language Research, 2023Romana Kopeckova +2 more
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10 Cross-Linguistic Variation in Procedural Expressions: Semantics and Pragmatics
2011This chapter presents arguments in favour of a representational view of procedural meaning. It consists of a procedural description of CP and SP in Castilian Spanish and French from a cross-linguistic perspective. The chapter revises Bezuidenhout's arguments and concludes that there are important reasons to assume the existence of a procedural non ...
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