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Crowdsourcing dialect characterization through Twitter. [PDF]
We perform a large-scale analysis of language diatopic variation using geotagged microblogging datasets. By collecting all Twitter messages written in Spanish over more than two years, we build a corpus from which a carefully selected list of concepts ...
Bruno Gonçalves, David Sánchez
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Alternation vs. variation in Old English [PDF]
This paper addresses the phenomena of variation and alternation as reflected by the Old English version of De Temporibus Anni (Blake 2009).The analysis, which focuses on the stem vowels of verbs and is based on the diatopic and diachronic contrasts found
Ana Elvira Ojanguren López
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Natural language processing techniques for studying language in pathological ageing: A scoping review [PDF]
Abstract Background In the past few years there has been a growing interest in the employment of verbal productions as digital biomarkers, namely objective, quantifiable behavioural data that can be collected and measured by means of digital devices, allowing for a low‐cost pathology detection, classification and monitoring.
Gloria Gagliardi
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komen ‘come’ + Verb of Movement [PDF]
Periphrastic constructions with come have primarily been grammaticalized to express tense in Indo-European languages (Devos & van der Wal 2014). In the Germanic language group, come has not undergone grammaticalization to the same degree that related go has.
Pheiff, Jeffrey Alan, Schäfer, Lea
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In this squib we discuss the morpho-syntactic requirements affecting the distribution of the Italian discourse particle ben (lit. ‘well’) as employed in a selection of regional varieties of the language. We present a preliminary comparison with its attestations in earlier stages of the language and we show how the attested diatopic and diachronic ...
Schifano Norma, Cognola Federica
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The decrease in diatopic variation in metropolitan French, which manifests as a standardisation of pronunciation, has been documented for several decades. Drawing on various dialectological experiments, this article discusses the impact of this levelling
Zoë Boughton
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La perception de la variation diatopique au fil du temps [PDF]
As early as the 18th century, lexicographers such as Grégoire de Rostrenen and Dom Le Pelletier observed that Breton was spoken differently in different cantons and dioceses.
Fañch Broudic
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LA VARIATION LIBRE PHONOLOGIQUE ET MORPHOLOGIQUE DU DIALECTE NIÇOIS : ESSAI D’ILLUSTRATION
Phonological and Morphological Free Variation in the Dialect of Nice – an Illustration. A project has been launched to make a dialectal dictionary of Nice and its surroundings.
Philippe Del GIUDICE
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Translating English verbal collocations into Spanish [PDF]
Language varieties should be taken into account in order to enhance fluency and naturalness of translated texts. In this paper we will examine the collocational verbal range for prima-facie translation equivalents of words like decision and dilemma ...
Corpas Pastor, Gloria
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Diatopic variation in Portugal: notes on European Portuguese dialects
Languages can vary considerably according to several factors, namely geographical, social or pragmatic. This paper shall focus on diatopic or geolinguistic variation of European Portuguese, the overall designation that encompasses the dialects spoken both in mainland Portugal and in the islands of Azores and Madeira, as well as by the immigrants ...
Martins, Cláudia
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