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Strategies in Translating Wordplay in Perahu Kertas Novel from Indonesian to English
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2021 The aims of this research are to identify wordplays found in the source-language text, classify them based on their types, and then analyze the strategies used to translate them. This research utilizes the descriptive qualitative approach.
Rintan Ari Bonita
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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A Reassessment of Anti-Homophony in Bulgarian [PDF]
, 2010 This paper discusses an apparent synchronic case of homophony avoidance in the Trigrad dialect of Bulgarian. Section 2 lays out the facts and summarizes Crosswhite’s (1997) OT-based solution to the aberrant phonology.
Mondon, Jean-Francois
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 91-116, March 2026.Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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Learning probabilistic patterns: influence of homophony, L1 and frequency [PDF]
, 2023 In this thesis, I investigate whether learners’ avoidance of alternation and neutralization, as well as learners’ exposure to their native language (L1), affect how they learn new morpho-phonological patterns.
Song, Hanbyul
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Équivoque homophonique en français: polyvalence fortuite et ambiguïté volontaire
Études romanes de Brno, 2014 To obtain a joke with homophonic resources requires that ambiguity is perceived in the mind of the person you are speaking to. Therefore you bind him/her to choose one of the two (or more) potential meanings, and he/she is responsible for the – right or ...
Chantal Rittaud-Hutinet
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Individual variation in reduction processes in L2 English academic textchat
Ampersand, 2018 This article presents a study of individual variation in computer-mediated communication. Different reduction processes, which reduce the formality and usually the orthographical form of an expression, are used at varying frequencies by non-native ...
Jonathan R. White
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 479-513, November 2025.Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2017 Evaluation of language from historical dialects towards contemporary dialects can be traced through studying the evaluation of specific words and the context conveyed through these words.
Banu Durgunay
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Contribution of executive function to different levels of reading comprehension
Journal of Research in Reading, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 335-354, November 2025.Background Executive function (EF) is significantly associated with reading comprehension outcomes, yet the interaction between EF and critical language skills (including vocabulary, morphological awareness (MA) and syntactic knowledge), across these levels of reading comprehension (literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension) has rarely been ...
Cathy On‐Ying Hung +2 more
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