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Receptive Meaning‐Recall Knowledge of Derivational Morphology Among EFL Learners: A Case for L1‐Population‐Specific Assessment

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody, Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Paweł Mandera, Stuart McLean   +5 more
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How National Security Drives the Coevolution of International Relations and International Business Policy: Evidence From the Belt and Road Initiative

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
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Lombardo alpino ˹bréncul, brén(s)ciol, brìnsc(en), brìnscet˺ ‘ginepro’: una geolinguistica d’altri tempi

Géolinguistique
The Alpine Lombard (Ticino and Ossola) lexical type ˹bréncul, brén(s)ciol, brìnsc(en), brìnscet˺ &c. ‘juniper’ exhibits an uncommonly conspicuous diatopic variation—57 local forms, together with 30 Alpine Romance and 8 Slavonic comparanda.
Guido Borghi, Vittorio Dell’Aquila
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Extreme rainfall in southern China in April 2024 and its potential link to weather events across south Asia

Weather, EarlyView.
This study documents the unseasonal and prolonged heavy rain events which occurred in southern China during April 2024. In this series of extreme rainfall events, Guangdong province recorded extreme rainfall exceeding 6‐sigma of climatology, with eleven cities reporting record‐breaking rainfall.
Wai‐Po Tse, Chun‐Wing Choy, Pak‐Wai Chan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Germany’s and European Union’s Indo-Pacific Stance: Towards a Value-Based Pragmatism

Регионология
Introduction. The growing use of the Indo-Pacific concept in the European and German discourses necessitates a closer scrutiny of its implementation. The author’s hypothesis, founded on the assumption of Germany’s central role in the European Union’s ...
Gleb V. Toropchin
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Assessing genetic diversity in a reintroduced Mediterranean griffon vulture Gyps fulvus population to inform long‐term conservation management

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Reintroductions play a key role in conservation biology. Their long‐term success strongly depends on maximizing the genetic diversity of founders, as well as on ensuring ecological connectivity with adjacent populations. Accordingly, evaluating the conservation status of reintroduced populations to limit the loss of their genetic diversity requires ...
Nicolò Borgianni, Mario Posillico, Lorenzo Attili, Paolo Ciucci, Rita Lorenzini, Luisa Garofalo   +5 more
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Geopolitical dimension of thinking in the Albanian language supports the Euro-Atlantic integration

Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2015
This work starts with the premise that the Albanian language is one of most ancient languages in the world and stands in the root of the common trunk of the Indo-European languages. The common pre-Indo-European origin is preserved in the present Albanian
Bujar Abedinaj
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010
The St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish) subjunctive mood appears in nine distinct environments, with a range of semantic effects, including weakening an imperative to a polite request, turning a question into an uncertainty statement, and creating an ...
Lisa Matthewson
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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