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Linguistic Variation and Change
, 2011 The study of variation and change is at the heart of the sociolinguistics. Providing a wide survey of the field, this textbook is organised around three constraints on variation: linguistic structure, social structure and identity, and social and ...
Kiesling, Scott F.
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Variation – Normen – Identitäten
, 2018 The description and analysis of linguistic variation is one of the fields that has recently received much attention in German linguistics. This volume shows in a synopsis of different approaches from attitude to language contact research, how to ...
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Large language models serve as representation generators for gradient‐free scientific optimization. Two complementary approaches produce executable battery‐charging policies either directly or through LLM‐designed neural representations coupled to Bayesian optimization.
Ge Lei +3 more
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The semantics of romance geonyms: cross-linguistic variation meets context sensitivity
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe goal of this paper is to offer a model of the semantics of geonyms occurring in toponyms from Romance languages (e.g. Italian geonym piazza ’square’ in toponym Piazza Grande ’Main Square’).
Giuseppe Samo, Francesco-Alessio Ursini
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Journal of Language and Education, 2016 A great deal of research has established the importance of hedging and its cross-linguistic differences for intercultural academic communication and, consequently, for L2 EAP/ESP teaching and learning.
Elena Zanina
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Re-examining cross-linguistic influence in the bilingual acquisition of wh-questions
, 2010 Many recent studies suggest that bilingual children differentiate between their two languages early on (Genesee, 1989; Meisel, 1989; De Houwer, 1990; Genesee, Nicoladis & Paradis, 1995; cited by Yip & Matthews, 2000).
Tieu, Lyn (R19168)
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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The linguistic anatomy of individual differences in Japanese monologues: focusing on particles and interjections [PDF]
, 2015 This is a linguistic study on idiosyncrasy manifested through language use in Japanese monologues. For this purpose, we use speaker classification techniques as analytical tools.
Australian Linguistic Society +1 more
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak +2 more
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The Meaning of Lexical Causatives in Cross-Linguistic Variation
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 2012 The causative alternation has been recognised in the linguistic literature as one of the most widely spread linguistic phenomena, attested in almost all languages, although differently realised and involving partially different sets of verbs. In this paper, we identify the degree of spontaneity of the event described by a verb as a general component of
Samardzic Tanja, Merlo Paola
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