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Child-Directed Speech in Rural and Urban Households in a Low-SES Afrikaans-Speaking Community in South Africa. [PDF]

Infancy
ABSTRACT Most studies on child language acquisition occur in the minority world (countries which make up the minority of the world's population). Their findings are not generalizable to majority‐world contexts, where the majority of the world's population lives.
Defty C, Southwood F.
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Scrambling as verum focus: German scrambling meets Romance anaphoric anteposition. [PDF]

, 2017
In this paper I demonstrate that in Mòcheno, a German dialect spoken in Northern Italy, scrambling, i.e. the movement of any constituent above sentential adverbs and below the finite verb, is permitted like in Continental Germanic languages.
Cognola, Federica
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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]

, 2011
This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Oath formulas in the Poetic Edda [PDF]

, 2017
This study examines oaths in the ON Poetic Edda primarily from a linguistic and rhetorical standpoint with the aim of deducing syntactic-rhetorical formulas for oath swearing. As J. Grimm (1816) said and Hibbitts (1992) reiterated, poetic formulations in
Reis, Jacob Robert
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Historical Contemporaneity and Contemporaneous Historicity: Creation of Meaning and Identity in Postwar Trauma Narratives

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2017
This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction.
Thorsten Wilhelm
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CASE STUDIES OF CULTURAL COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS EXPRESSED IN THE GERMANIC TERMS FOR ‘SPEECH’. THE HISTORICAL LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF A CONCEPT AS GROUND FOR STUDIES IN CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2012
This article refers to the studies of ‘contrastive rhetoric’ from a historical perspective examining ‘language contact’-situations of Germanic languages within the IndoEuropean group.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Dikeledi’s revenge: A reading of Bessie Head’s ‘The collector of treasures’

Literator, 1996
This essay focuses on the title story of Bessie Head's collection The collector of treasures and pays particular attention to the role of the phallus in the text.
M. Crous
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Rumors of Nature: An Ecotranslation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s “so habe ich sagen gehört”

Humanities, 2021
Only recently have scholars begun to discuss the implications of the Anthropocene for the translation of literature, introducing the new practice and study of ecotranslation. The Anthropocene—a term popularized by Paul Crutzen—describes the current epoch
Hannah Bradley
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Russian Binary Meters

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2020
Russian Binary Meters.
Kiril Taranovsky, Lawrence E. Feinberg
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Функция характеризации в настоящем времени [Function of characterization in present tense]

Sign Systems Studies, 2003
Function of characterization in present tense. This article is devoted to a field in cognitive and semantic analysis where stylistics and grammar meet: it concerns the function of characterisation in the Present tense. In general, linguistic works, which
Michel Paladian
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