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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Meter based omission of function words in MOSAIC [PDF]
, 2007 MOSAIC (Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children) is augmented with a new mechanism that allows for the omission of unstressed function words based on the prosodic structure of the utterance in which they occur.
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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The origins of the Romance analytic passive : evidence from word order [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter argues that despite formal resemblances, Latin perfect tense BE-periphrases of the type amatus sum ‘I was loved’ are not the historical source of Romance present tense passives like Italian sono amato and French je suis aimé (both meaning ‘I
Danckaert, Lieven
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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Variation of the inflected infinitive in Portuguese
IsoglossThis study uses corpus methods to examine a controversial topic in Portuguese syntax (Cunha & Cintra 2016): the variation of the inflected infinitive, an uncommon verbal form that marks the infinitive for person and number but not tense. Previous work by
Vanessa Revheim Cunha +2 more
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Modelling the development of Dutch Optional Infinitives in MOSAIC. [PDF]
, 2002 This paper describes a computational model which simulates the change in the use of optional infinitives that is evident in children learning Dutch as their first language.
Freudenthal, D, Gobet, F, Pine, J M
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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The acquisition of infinitive and gerund as complements in ESL by Mexican undergraduates
RECIE Revista Electrónica Científica de Investigación Educativa, 2023 Metalinguistic awareness has been assessed primarily throughout metalinguistic knowledge and grammaticality judgment tests. Then, very limited research has been conducted on the attempt to understand how metalinguistic awareness may be developed among ...
Selene Maya Ruiz
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The double modal construction in English world wide
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The dual foci of the present study of double modals are their semantic characteristics and their distribution across regional varieties of English world wide. Tokens were extracted from GloWbE:Blogs, a database whose great size and informal tenor facilitated the investigation of this low‐frequency non‐standard feature. Double modals were found
Peter Collins, Adam Smith
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Function of the Preposition "En" in Arabic Language and Its Effects on Meaning
İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2021 Metinleri cümleler, cümleleri ise kelimeler oluşturmaktadır. Kelime-lerin türlerinden biri de Arap dili literatüründe “hurûf-u meâni” diye isimlendirilen edatlardır. Arapça metinlere bakıldığında hemen hemen her cümle ve her satırda bu edatlara rastlamak
Nurullah Oruç
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