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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Selective admissions at universities in the United Kingdom aim to ensure a baseline language competence, yet, despite persistent achievement disparities across linguistic backgrounds, systematic comparisons of linguistic skills underpinning academic success remain rare.
Justyna Mackiewicz, Danijela Trenkic
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The Grouping of the Germanic Languages: A Critical Review [PDF]
, 2014 The literature regarding the grouping of the Germanic languages will be reviewed and a potential solution to the problems of the division of the Germanic language will be proposed. This is however quite a complex task.
Highlander, Michael-Christopher Todd
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Genealogies and Challenges of Transcultural Studies
Humanities, 2017 My introductory essay discusses some of transculturalism’s enduring conceptual challenges from the perspective of the history of German cultural and political theory.
Bernd Fischer
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, 2022 Institute of Germanic Languages and LiteraturesInstitut für Germanistik - SoziolinguistikCenter for the Study of Language and Society ...
Jeszenszky, Péter +2 more
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Input variability (i.e., varied experience with different grammar exemplars; “[talk/think/rant/wonder] about [god/bicycles/dogs]”) can improve generalization (i.e., “[Verb] about [Noun]”) and enhance learning. Controlled experiments show that input variability benefits children's generalization and extension of linguistic information from ...
Johannes Schulz +2 more
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Constructions with Reflexive and Reciprocal Verbs in English and Armenian
Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2014 Reflexive and reciprocal verbs constitute a special class both in the English and Armenian verbal system. As for their semantics, they manifest similarity, but morphologically and syntactically they show some differences.
Yelena Mkhitaryan, Mary Vardanyan
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Studien zur runischen Graphematik : Methodische Ansätze und digitale Umsetzung
, 2022 https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-462698Runische Schriftlichkeit in den Germanischen Sprachen / Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages ...
Marold, Edith,, Zimmermann, Christiane,
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Limits on P: filling in holes vs. falling in holes
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 All Germanic languages make extensive use of verb-particle combinations (known as separable-prefix verbs in the OV languages). I show some basic differences here distinguishing the Scandinavian type from the OV West Germanic languages, with English ...
Peter Svenonius
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Gendered Harmony and Unsung Collections: Two Debussy Rabbit Holes
Music Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This review article on Mark McFarland's The Musical Relationship between Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky (2024) offers a critical reading of this recent text and treats its content as a springboard for the exploration of two issues untapped in existing musicological discourse.
Rajan Lal
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