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The Role of Internal and External Factors for Code-Switching: A Study of Early Multilingualism in Germany with Special Reference to Catalan as a Heritage Language

Languages, 2022
In heritage language acquisition studies, it has been observed that heritage speakers may experience a shift of language dominance from the heritage language to the majority language due to input quantity and quality factors.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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Assimilative comparative clauses with 'tipo' and 'igual' in the light of usage-based construction grammar

Gragoatá, 2020
This study aims at describing and analyzing one of the possibilities of materialization of the cognitive process of comparison: the assimilative comparative construction, especially when presenting the connectors tipo and igual, in Brazilian Portuguese ...
Heloise Vasconcellos Gomes Thompson
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Code Switching and Viewers' Attitude Toward Interviews with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (Sby) (an Analysis of Interview Transcript From Www.Presidenri.Go.Id) [PDF]

, 2013
This study explores some important issues, namely the occurrences of code switching types, function, and the language attitudes of English and Indonesian students department toward the use of code switch in the interview with President Susilo Bambang ...
Nurhaki, R. (Ricky)
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Detecting causality from online psychiatric texts using inter-sentential language patterns

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2012
Background Online psychiatric texts are natural language texts expressing depressive problems, published by Internet users via community-based web services such as web forums, message boards and blogs. Understanding the cause-effect relations embedded in
Wu Jheng-Long, Yu Liang-Chih, Chang Pei-Chann   +2 more
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Some Findings of the Structural Features of the Quotations in Kissa-i Musa at the Syntactic and Text-linguistic Levels

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022
Turkish literature has a rich text corpus in the genre of the Parables of the Prophets (Qisas Al-Anbiya). Among this corpus, Kissa-i Musa is distinguished from the other texts as the only separate prose tale known today of the Prophet Moses. In this work,
Kübra Malta
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Exploring the Tagalog-English Code-Switching Types Used for Mathematics Classroom Instruction

IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
This study aimed to examine the types of Tagalog-English code-switching used in mathematics classroom discourse. Four purposively selected tertiary level math teachers in a college situated in a rural area in the Philippines were part of the study. Using
Karizza P. Bravo-Sotelo
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The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account [PDF]

, 2006
In this paper I revisit and elaborate some of the ideas I outlined in the earlier paper, concentrating on the semantic characteristics of the paired Perfective tense-aspects in a major (universal) discourse context—spontaneously-produced past-time ...
Jaggar, Philip J.
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A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis [PDF]

Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1985
Intersentential elliptical utterances occur frequently in information-seeking dialogues. This paper presents a pragmatics-based framework for interpreting such utterances, including identification of the speaker's discourse goal in employing the fragment. We claim that the advantage of this approach is its reliance upon pragmatic information, including
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The Discourse Role of Vocabulary In Three Major English Text Patterns [PDF]

, 2007
This paper analyses an English text in ternlS of major English text patterns, general-specific, claim-counterclainl/hypothetical-real and problem-solution, by making use of 'signaling vocabulary' that has the role of indicating the functional segments of
Tahara, Nobuko
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Polish-English Code-Switching in the Language of Polish Facebook Users

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Social networking services, such as Facebook, are important channels of communication both for monolingual users and for those having various degrees of proficiency in L2, with the latter deploying expression both from L1 and L2.
Daria Pańka
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