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Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning [PDF]
Infant and Child Development, Volume 34, Issue 1, January/February 2025.ABSTRACT Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs ...
Emma Libersky +2 more
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Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2007 The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language held at the ZAS in December, 2006. The conference, organized by the project Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference, brought together leading researchers dealing
Bittner, Dagmar, Gagarina, Natalia
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Integrating pragmatic information in grammar: An analysis of intersentential ellipsis
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2005 In this paper we present a proposal to integrate pragmatic information, both from the preceding discourse and the extra-linguistic context, in the grammar. We provide an analysis of elliptical fragments according to how they are anchored to the context and the kind of resolution they require.
Núria Bertomeu, Valia Kordoni
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Intra and Intersentential Code-switching Phenomena in Modern Malay Songs
3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 2018 Code-switching has been used in many languages by many different groups of people or speech communities, but little is known about how and why they are used as communicative strategies in modern song lyrics. This paper aims to explore and describe the recent phenomenon of English code-switching in modern Malay songs.
Wan Nur Syaza Sahira Wan Rusli +4 more
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IET Software, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.Document‐level (Doc‐level) event argument extraction (EAE) needs to deal with longer text inputs and complex semantic relationships than sentence‐level, making it a challenging information extraction task. Extracting event arguments from an entire document primarily faces two critical issues: (i) how to handle the long‐distance dependency between ...
Yiqing Song +5 more
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Philosophical Perspectives, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 54-88, December 2024.ABSTRACT In a pure event semantics for natural language, the domain of quantification and predication is limited to events and states. I offer pure event semantic analyses of several phenomena, some of which have not been treated before in formal semantics. In the pure event semantics sketched in the second section, nouns are state predicates, and this
Roger Schwarzschild
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Referential Cohesion, Ambiguity, Vagueness and Generality in Parliamentary Debate*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 128-155, April 2024.Abstract Political discourse has been characterised as being ‘vague’ and ‘ambiguous’. It is argued that politicians tend to use generic and unspecific words in order to avoid explicit commitment (McGee 2018). Although this situation may describe discourse genres such as political interviews and election debates, it is unclear that it can be applied to ...
Josep E. Ribera
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INTERSENTENTIAL CODESWITCHING AMONG INDONESIAN-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa, 2010 This study is aimed at investigating how the English-Indonesian bilingual speakers use language codes in their interaction through internet. The data for this study comprised a linguistic corpus made up from postings send to a newsgroup by its members. The findings showed that codeswitching accured in this forum was similar to that in the face to face ...
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Production and comprehension of intersentential pronominal reference in early child Bulgarian
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2007 The paper presents results from a combined production and comprehension study addressing some of the factors which guide the establishment of intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult Bulgarian. We investigate the time course and different stages in the acquisition of null, personal and demonstrative pro-nouns and their specific anaphoric
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What corpus data reveal about the Position of Antecedent Strategy: anaphora resolution in Spanish monolinguals and L1 English-L2 Spanish bilinguals. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Lozano C, Quesada T.
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