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Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings ...
Wiese, Heike
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Person-first language: are we practicing what we preach? [PDF]

open access: yesJ Multidiscip Healthc, 2019
Amy F Crocker, Susan N Smith School of Physical Therapy, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX, USA Abstract: Person-first language is taught in most health professions programs and mandated by scholarly journals but is often not practiced by
Crocker AF, Smith SN.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Half silver, half gold: Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar

open access: yes
This collection contains ten folk stories in Modole, a Papuan language of the North Moluccas in eastern Indonesia. They were first published in 1916 by Dutch missionary G.J.
Zielenbach, Maria
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Laterality in Emotional Language Processing in First and Second Language [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Language is a cognitive function that is asymmetrically distributed across both hemispheres, with left dominance for most linguistic operations. One key question of interest in cognitive neuroscience studies is related to the contribution of both hemispheres in bilingualism.
Raheleh Heyrani   +7 more
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First language attrition [PDF]

open access: yesLanguage Teaching, 2013
This statement opens the first collection of papers that specifically consider the deterioration of linguistic knowledge among bilinguals (Lambert & Freed 1982: see timeline), a field which in one of the papers in the volume is referred to as being in an ‘antenatal’ state (Berko-Gleason 1982: 22).
openaire   +4 more sources

First-language phonotactics in second-language listening [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006
Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected an embedded English word. The responses of both groups were equivalently facilitated by preceding context that both by English and by German phonotactic constraints forced a ...
Weber, Andrea, Cutler, Anne
openaire   +6 more sources

Formulaic language: Theories and methods

open access: yes, 2021
The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history.
Buerki, Andreas   +10 more
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Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2003
The largest movements and replacements of human populations since the end of the Ice Ages resulted from the geographically uneven rise of food production around the world. The first farming societies thereby gained great advantages over hunter-gatherer societies. But most of those resulting shifts of populations and languages are complex, controversial,
Diamond, Jared, Bellwood, Peter
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Prolog as the first programming language [PDF]

open access: yesACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2007
The adoption of logic programming in an introductory course on computer programming offers several rewards. The higher conceptual level of this programming paradigm guides students to an early appreciation for abstraction. The descriptive character of programs makes them more understandable than conventional programs, and the relational basis makes ...
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