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Modeling the Paths from L2 Use and Socio‐Affective Variables to Communication Skills: A Mixed‐Methods Approach

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
wiley   +1 more source

Names of human body parts in Russian dialects of the Simbirsk Volga region

Неофилология
INTRODUCTION. A study of body part names in Russian dialects of the Ulyanovsk region is presented. The significance of somatisms is determined by the fact that this is the most ancient and stable layer of the basic vocabulary of the language.
Y. V. Myznikova
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Words for potato in Slovenian and neighbouring Croatian dialects

Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2008
By method of linguistic geography, the article presents the words for the potato (Latinski Solanum Tuberosum) in Slovenian and neighbouring Croatian dialects. Etimologicaly analysed Slovenian dialectal lexems, collected for the Slovenian linguistic atlas
Jožica Škofic
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Late‐Arriving Multilingual Learners' Transition from K–16 Education to the Workforce: Cultural Capital and Habitus Adaptation across Fields

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract English learners (ELs) in US K–12 schools face systemic barriers that constrain their college and career readiness. Although research has richly documented ELs' limited opportunities to learn in high school and barriers to postsecondary education, much less is known about how late‐arriving ELs move from high school to community college (CC ...
Kuang Li, Yasuko Kanno
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating robustness and explainability in Arabic authorship models for detecting AI-generated texts

Scientific Reports
The rapid development of large language models has intensified the need for reliable methods that distinguish human-authored Arabic text from AI-generated text while remaining interpretable across orthographic, dialectal, and register variation.
Bunder Sebail Alshammari, Khaled Nasser Alfraidi, Mohammad Omar Aljudaiey, Walid Abdelhalim   +3 more
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Entangled political institutions and forms: From corporatisation to treaty

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The lands and waters now called Australia have been home to diverse political ordering and institutions for thousands of generations. The comparatively very recent arrival of settlers and the violent imposition of their political structures and institutions have forced First Nations to respond to, adapt to, resist, and refuse colonial ...
Morgan Brigg, Deirdre Howard‐Wagner, Natasha McCormack, Sarah Maddison, Kaely Woods   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of the Expression of Possessive Relations in the Erzya Dialects of the Kochkurovo District, Republic of Mordovia

Финно-угорский мир
Introduction. The dialects of the Mordovian Prisurye are characterized by a developed system of possessive suffixes and feature various means and forms of expressing possessive relations.
Ivan N. Ryabov, Nina A. Agafonova, Galina V. Ryabova   +2 more
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.
Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
wiley   +1 more source

The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.
Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
wiley   +1 more source