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Improved Text Language Identification for the South African Languages
, 2017 Virtual assistants and text chatbots have recently been gaining popularity. Given the short message nature of text-based chat interactions, the language identification systems of these bots might only have 15 or 20 characters to make a prediction ...
Duvenhage, Bernardt +2 more
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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Multimodal materials (e.g., written text supplemented by images and/or audio) are commonplace in language classrooms. While they have been consistently shown to be beneficial for vocabulary acquisition, the efficacy of multimodal input in scaffolding text comprehension is less clear. Conflicting findings have also been reported in terms of the
Tetiana Tytko +2 more
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014 The etymology of the Germanic stem *paþa- > engl. paþ / pað is taken into consideration and the usual explanation as a Celtic or as an Iranic loan is rejected in favour of a viewpoint that tends to see *paþa- as an original Germanic stem, to be ...
Giovanni Gobber
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The topic-prominence parameter [PDF]
, 2013 This article aims to recast the properties of topic-prominent languages and their differences from subject-prominent languages as documented in the functionalist literature into the framework of the Principle-and-Parameter approach.
Xu, Liejiong
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert +2 more
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The beginnings of salt exploitation in the Carpathian basin (6th-5th millennium BC)
Documenta Praehistorica, 2015 While there are ample data for salt exploitation in later prehistory, in the Neolithic, i.e. 6th–5th millennium BC, archaeological data from Southern Central Europe remain scanty.
Eszter Bánffy
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Armament and Society in the Mirror of the Avar Archaelogy The Transdanubia-Phenomenon Revisited [PDF]
, 2011 One of the most significant problems of the A var archaeology is the question of Germanic (mainly Gepidic) continuity in Transdanubia. In my paper I would like to make some comments on the so-called Transdanubia-phenomenon of the Early A var ...
Csiky, Gergely
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State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments across the European Union (EU) have pledged a stronger commitment to vocational education and training (VET) in response to economic structural change. But have states actually become more central to skill formation? Using mixed methods, this paper examines whether state involvement in European skill formation systems has increased
Milan Thies
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