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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The present study investigates linguistics and cognitive effects of bilingualism with a minority language acquired through school medium education. If bilingualism has an effect on cognition and language abilities, regardless of language prestige or ...
Maria Garraffa +3 more
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Scottish Gaelic political terminology – Term formation in the Scottish Parliament Annual Report
LingBaW, 2022 This paper analyses the Scottish Gaelic political terminology used by the Scottish Parliament, based on the translations of three Annual Reports.
Lena Krochmann
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Languages, 2021 This study describes the validation of a reading assessment developed for speakers of Scottish Gaelic, an endangered language spoken in Scotland. The test is designed to investigate the areas of reading for understanding, reading errors and reading speed.
Euan Dickson +3 more
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Education in the North, 2023 This paper explores the findings of a small-scale mixed methods study set in one school which set out to investigate the effects of the school closures because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and subsequent home-learning periods, on language acquisition in ...
Ingeborg Birnie, Kerrie Kennedy
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Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2018 Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
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Le gaélique en Nouvelle-Écosse
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1991 The Gaelic language that barely survives in Nova Scotia today is the legacy of the Highlanders who came to this land, previously populated by the Micmac tribe and the Acadians, in the late 18th century.
Kenneth E. Nilsen
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Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
Studies in Arts and Humanities, 2016 Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other Gaelic Leaguers their journey to ...
Uí Chollatáin, Regina
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Dialect variation in Scottish Gaelic nominal morphology: A quantitative study
Glossa, 2020 This paper presents a dialectometric analysis of Scottish Gaelic morphology, with a focus on the noun phrase, using previously unpublished data from the Linguistic Survey of Scotland.
Pavel Iosad, William Lamb
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Le gaélique en Nouvelle-Écosse : survivance d’une langue orale au Nouveau Monde
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1996 In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, several thousand Scots came to settle in what became Nova Scotia (Canada), bringing with them their language, Gaelic.
Ken Nilsen
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Genealogy, 2018 Focusing on the verbal rather than the visual elements of early and more modern headstones in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, this essay will comment on a selection of Gaelic headstone inscriptions, highlighting such elements as word choice (whether
Laurie Stanley-Blackwell +1 more
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