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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines elementary Grade 5 and 6 students’ emic perspectives on their L1 French and L2 English teachers’ cross‐curricular efforts to build linguistic and conceptual bridges. Drawing on research on translanguaging pedagogies and recent motivation scholarship, we propose a multi‐competence view of motivation that aligns more closely ...
Sunny Man Chu Lau +1 more
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The Particle rā- in Libyan Arabic Dialects (with Emphasis on the Arabic Dialect of Msallāta)
, 2017 Nie ...
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Family caregivers provide essential support to older adults, yet those caring for individuals who face language discordance may experience added challenges affecting their psychological well‐being. Objective To synthesize the existing literature on the psychological impact of caregiving in contexts of language discordance, focusing ...
Kristina M. Kokorelias +4 more
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Machine Translation of Arabic Dialects
, 2018 This thesis discusses different approaches to machine translation (MT) from Dialectal Arabic (DA) to English. These approaches handle the varying stages of Arabic dialects in terms of types of available resources and amounts of training data. The overall theme of this work revolves around building dialectal resources and MT systems or enriching ...
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The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
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Cogent EngineeringSpeech acts are a speaker’s actions when performing an utterance within a conversation, such as asking, recommending, or thanking, or making a suggestion.
Khadejaa Alshehri +2 more
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How Awareness of Orthographic Transparency Benefits the Lexical Encoding of Second Language Vowels
Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigated the influence of orthographic transparency, and learners’ awareness of it, on the second language (L2) phonolexical encoding of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) mid‐vowel contrasts. In BP, accent marks indicate vowel quality (mid‐closed vs.
Hunter Brakovec, Isabelle Darcy
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MENARA: Medical Natural Arabic Response Assistant
Machine Learning and Knowledge ExtractionDialectal variation presents a major challenge for deploying medical language models in real-world healthcare settings, where patient–clinician communication often occurs in regional vernaculars rather than standardized language forms.
Ahmed Ibrahim +6 more
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A Neural Architecture for Dialectal Arabic Segmentation [PDF]
Proceedings of the Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2017 The automated processing of Arabic Dialects is challenging due to the lack of spelling standards and to the scarcity of annotated data and resources in general. Segmentation of words into its constituent parts is an important processing building block.
Younes Samih +6 more
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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