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The Effect of Non-Native Accents and Stereotypes on Speaker Perception and Comprehension
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2017 The paper argues that linguistic forms per se do not have any positive or negative meaning and that one form is not better than the other. However, this is not fully perceived outside the narrow linguistic community.
Susanna Baghdasaryan
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi +15 more
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The Germanic weak preterit [PDF]
, 2010 The main difficulty with the Germanic weak preterit is that one cannot endeavor an explanation of its origin without taking into account almost every aspect of the historical phonology and morphology of the Germanic languages.
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Type frequency influences phonological generalizations : eliminating stressed open syllables with short vowels in West Germanic [PDF]
, 2015 A pivotal process in the loss of phonological quantity in West Germanic languages is what is traditionally known as Open Syllable Lengthening. Existing accounts have found no explanation for why languages such as English apply this change in less than 50%
Kruger, William W. +2 more
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Street art as a cultural and educational project
Науковий Вісник Південноукраїнського Національного Педагогічного Університету імені К. Д. Ушинського, 2021 The necessity of discovering ways to form and develop value orientations of the younger generation makes the research topical. Value orientations are formed under the influence of various sociocultural factors, but there is also a regulated factor ...
Gerkerova Alexandra
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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Embedded imperatives in Semitic, Germanic, and other languages [PDF]
, 2022 Several Semitic and Germanic languages, just as languages belonging to other language families (Slovenian, Korean), embed imperatives and thus use direct speech in syntactical context, where most other languages would use subordinate clauses.
Edzard, Lutz
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Morphosyntactic features of progressive in the K’iche’an languages of the Mayan family
Open Linguistics, 2021 The article deals with the morphosyntactic features of the aspectual category of progressive in K’iche’an languages. The analysis is carried out using methods of intragenetic typology.
Sychev Roman V.
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Weather, EarlyView.The English language is a gargantuan, gluttonous beast. It has become extraordinary among its peers in its powers of assimilation – such that we rarely consider the diverse origins of the words we use. In this two‐part paper, we will explore these origins, including the Pontic‐Caspian steppe, the British Empire, latinophone scientists and a TV show. We
Kieran M. R. Hunt
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A discourse-based approach to verb placement in early West-Germanic [PDF]
, 2006 The paper presents a novel approach to explaining word order variation in the early Germanic languages. Initial observations about verb placement as a device marking types of rhetorical relations made on data from Old High German (cf.
Petrova, Svetlana
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