Language and Imagination: Evolutionary explorations [PDF]
, 2017 This article provides a functional analysis of the conditions for language to emerge, and analyzes its rolein imagination. It starts with some initial reflections on imagination and its evolutionary beginnings in relation to the role of working memory ...
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Regional differences in the perception of a consonantal change in progress [PDF]
, 2016 This study aims at testing whether there are regional differences in the perception of the labiodental fricative contrast in Dutch. Previous production studies have shown that the devoicing of initial labiodental fricatives is a change in progress in the
van de Velde, H. +4 more
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There is more: Variation in expletive constructions in Dutch [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis is concerned with expletive clauses in Dutch. An example of such a construction follows in (1). (1) Er loopt iemand op straat. There walks someone on street ‘Someone is walking in the street.’ In this sentence the expletive pronoun er ‘there’
Wesseling, F. +2 more
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Vowel Production in Children and Adults With Down Syndrome: Fundamental and Formant Frequencies of the Corner Vowels. [PDF]
J Speech Lang Hear Res, 2023 Vorperian HK, Kent RD, Lee Y, Buhr KA.
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Pronominal anaphoric strategies in the West Saxon dialect of Old English [PDF]
, 2017 Building on previous studies that have discussed pronominal referencing in Old English (Traugott 1992; van Gelderen 2013; van Kemenade & Los 2017), the present study analyses the pronominal anaphoric strategies of the West Saxon dialect of Old English ...
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Grammar of binding in the languages of the world: Unity versus diversity [PDF]
, 2017 Cole, Hermon, and Yanti (2015) present a number of far-reaching conclusions about language universals on the basis of their study of the anaphoric systems of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia.
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The Acquisition of Stylistic Variation by Jakarta Indonesian Children [PDF]
, 2014 To become competent speakers in their community, children have to learn the grammatical rules and lexicon of one or more language varieties. In addition, they need to learn when to use these varieties and to adapt their speech to both topic and setting ...
Bernadette Kushartanti +7 more
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Editorial: Theoretical Syntax at the Crossroads: Big Data, Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Gallego ÁJ, Ortega-Santos I.
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When synchrony meets diachrony : The negation system of Fɛʔfɛʔ in the light of the Jespersen Cycle [PDF]
, 2015 This dissertation is concerned with synchronic variation as the reflection and residue of language change. The empirical focus is the negation system of Fɛʔfɛʔ.
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Pseudorelative, gerundi e infiniti nelle varietà romanze: affinità (solo) superficiali e corrispondenze strutturali [PDF]
, 2013 The main topic of this dissertation is a comparison among sentential predicative constructions in the Romance languages. Whereas Pseudo-relative clauses are almost universally used in the Romance domain (with some parametrical differences), predicative ...
Casalicchio, Jan, ILS Variation
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