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Varieties of English Consonants Pronunciation Among English Un-dergraduate Students [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This research involved Thailand and Indonesia which is a multilingual country and has 749 dialects thoroughly. Dialect influences the way people speak foreign language in term of pronunciation, grammar and accent; the speech of people from different ...
Setiawan, B. R. (Beni)
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lexicography of the Syrian dialect of Arabic: Sources and dictionary [PDF]

open access: yesTraining, Language and Culture
This study focuses on the development of an algorithm for constructing the vocabulary of a Syrian dialectal multimedia dictionary. The significance of this research stems from the inadequate representation of Syrian dialectal lexicon in existing ...
Aida D. Haddad, Amr A. A. Khalil
doaj   +1 more source

Who\u27s Flaithbhertach Macloingry? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
In the November 1989 Word Ways George H. Scheetz presented a list of 51 words ending in -gry.
Pearce, Murray R.
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
wiley   +1 more source

The GW/LT3 VarDial 2016 shared task system for dialects and similar languages detection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper describes the GW/LT3 contribution to the 2016 VarDial shared task on the identification of similar languages (task 1) and Arabic dialects (task 2).
Desmet, Bart, Diab, Mona, Zirikly, Ayah
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The Venetian Vernacular Lexicon in Eleventh‐ and Twelfth‐Century Latin Documents: Insights from the Codice Diplomatico Veneziano

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the lexicographical potential of Medieval Latin documentation from the Venetian area of the Italo‐Romance domain, highlighting the need for a systematic approach to bridge Latin and vernacular linguistic developments. The project MEDITA – Medieval Latin Documentation and Digital Italo‐Romance Lexicography.
Jacopo Gesiot
wiley   +1 more source

Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
wiley   +1 more source

The reproduction of cultural aspects in dictionaries in French and the Gabonese languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The reproduction of culture in dictionaries constitutes one of the fundamental prob-lems of lexicographers today. What is the nature of cultural data in dictionaries? To what extent should cultural aspects be transferred from one language to another? How
Mavoungou, Paul Achille   +2 more
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Dialect materials in the Estonian Etymological Dictionary [PDF]

open access: yesSlavia Centralis, 2010
Estonian Etymological Dictionary being compiled at the Institute of the Estonian Language. A limited number of dialect words will be included in the headword list of the dictionary. Dialect data may be vital for etymologization as well. In the case of genuine words and older loanwords, the archaic phonological traits that have survived in dialects are ...
openaire   +4 more sources

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