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Symbolic Analysis of the Quality of Texts Translated into a Language Preserving Vowel Harmony [PDF]
EntropyTo date, the ordinal pattern-based method has been applied to problems in natural and social sciences. We report, for the first time to our knowledge, an attempt to apply this methodology to a topic in the humanities.
Kazuya Hayata
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Reflection of Social and Cultural Features in the Names of Stones and Minerals in Bazhov’s Tales [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The aim of the articleis to study peculiarities of nominations of minerals in Russian and in its regional version, in the socio-lexicon of the Ural mining workers.
Stepanova L.I., Shchukina D.A.
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Dialectal differences and linguistic divergence: A cross-linguistic survey of grammatical variation
Language Dynamics and Change, 2022 This article presents a new type of comparative linguistic survey, analysing (socio-)linguistic variation in a database of 1155 grammatical constructions drawn from 42 diverse languages. We focus in particular on variation in the expression of grammatical meanings, and the extent to which grammatical variation differentiates geographic dialects.
John Mansfield +2 more
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Social and Political Transformations and the National Language [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2009 The reflection of social transformations in language is an important issue in social linguistics, linguistic sociology, and anthropologist linguistics.
Yahya Modarresi
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Speech Acts and Relevance: in Search of a Dialogue
Research in Language, 2023 This paper comments on the notion of the speech act in the tradition of J.L. Austin (1962/1975) in an attempt to assess its relevance (sic!) in a relevance-theory-based research.
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka
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Fine-Grained Analysis of Cross-Linguistic Syntactic Divergences [PDF]
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020 The patterns in which the syntax of different languages converges and diverges are often used to inform work on cross-lingual transfer. Nevertheless, little empirical work has been done on quantifying the prevalence of different syntactic divergences across language pairs.
Nikolaev, Dmitry +6 more
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Diacronia, 2019 Language is subjected to a double definition process: by the static reality characteristic of the system, due to inertia to change, and by its permanent character regarding the language acts producing, through speaking.
Valentin Dragoș Biro
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Metadiscursive Constructions in Linguistics Essays by Italian EFL vs. L1 English University Students
Iperstoria, 2023 In the field of academic discourse analysis close attention has been paid to the study of metadiscourse and to the analysis of recurrent sequences of words, variously called phraseology, lexical bundles or formulaic language.
Donatella Malavasi
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Replicator–mutator dynamics of linguistic convergence and divergence [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 People tend to align their use of language to the linguistic behaviour of their own ingroup and to simultaneously diverge from the language use of outgroups. This paper proposes to model this phenomenon of sociolinguistic identity maintenance as an evolutionary game in which individuals play the field and the dynamics are supplied by a multi-population
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Towards a unifying theory of linguistic meaning
Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2023 Fundamental tensions exist between formal-logical approaches and cognitive approaches to linguistic meaning. The divergence arises from the fundamental differences in nature and form between formal/mathematical structures of natural language meaning and ...
Prakash Mondal
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