ABSTRACT This exploratory study investigated lexicogrammatical features associated with grade‐based differences in a corpus of 304 business papers taken from an upper‐level undergraduate course at a large North American university. Using five natural language processing tools, 719 candidate linguistic variables were analyzed for their relationship with
Randy Appel +2 more
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A Four-Way Distance Contrast in Takbanuaz Bunun Demonstratives
Bunun is an Austronesian language spoken in Taiwan. Previous research on two of its dialects, Takivatan and Isbukun, indicates complex paradigms of demonstrative pronouns, locative verbs, and adverbial elements.
de Busser, Rik
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Directly and Indirectly Anaphoric Demonstrative and Personal Pronouns in Newspaper Articles
This paper reports on a study of pronouns this, that, and it in articles in the New York Times, testing the following hypotheses: (1) the pronoun it requires its referent to be in the addressee’s focus of attention; demonstrative pronouns only ...
Ron Zacharski +2 more
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Unrealistic Feedback in Socially Prescriptive Speech Technologies
ABSTRACT Socially prescriptive speech technologies (SPSTs) are technologies that claim to provide feedback to speakers about how other humans perceive their speech and communication style, based on algorithms trained on a set of static, prescriptive standards.
Nicole Holliday
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The demonstrative pronouns ez and az and the cases [PDF]
This material shows a table of the demonstrative pronouns and the assimilation patterns in the case-suffixed forms. It also gives many examples and exercises.
Tarsoly, Eszter
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Developing Pre‐Service Teachers’ Digital Self‐Efficacy Through Self‐Directed Language Learning
ABSTRACT Contemporary online language learning typically involves the use of multiple digital platforms. Drawing on digital self‐efficacy and self‐directed learning theories, this study investigates the self‐directed language learning experience of 19 pre‐service teachers as they navigate the affordances of two platforms, Duolingo and ChatGPT.
Yingqiu Chen, Louisa Buckingham
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Impaired use of function words in European French-speaking children with developmental language disorder. [PDF]
Le Normand MT, Thai-Van H.
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THE FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS IN THE KHOREZM DIALECT
This paper examines the classification of demonstrative pronouns in the Khorezm dialect of the Uzbek language. The study focuses on their semantic, morphological, and functional features, as well as their regional variations.
Sevinch QURBONNAZAROVA
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Off‐Task Talk to Manage Relationship Work During Student Group Work in Second Language Classrooms
ABSTRACT This paper presents a conversation analytic study on student relationship work in off‐task talk (OTT) during group work in foreign language classrooms. Often seen as disengagement from tasks, OTT's social and relational functions in student classroom group interaction and formation remain underexplored.
Yanyan Li
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Syntactic change in diachrony versus contact-induced change: two sides of the same coin? [PDF]
D'Alessandro R, Putnam MT, Terenghi S.
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