Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]
, 2020 This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna +9 more
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Prosody and interactional fluency of Italian learners of German
This book explores the development of prosodic and interactional competence in second language acquisition, drawing on data from peer interactions by Italian learners of German in both German and their native language, Italian, as well as from German ...
Sbranna, Simona; University of Cologne
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Modal particles in Italian: Adverbs of illocutionary modification and sociolinguistic variation
, 2023 This study investigates the properties of a set of Italian adverbs (among others: pure ‘also’, solo ‘only’, un po’ ‘a bit’) that, in specific contexts of use, modify the speech acts in which they appear. On the one hand, these elements specify the way in
Favaro, Marco; University of Lisbon
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Multilingualism and third language acquisition: Learning and teaching trends [PDF]
, 2021 The purpose of this book is to present recent studies in the field of multilingualism and L3, bringing together contributions from an international group of specialists from Austria, Canada, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, and United ...
Yanaprasart, Patchareerat +15 more
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GePpeTto Carves Italian into a Language Model [PDF]
, 2020 In the last few years, pre-trained neural architectures have provided impressive improvements across several NLP tasks. Still, generative language models are available mainly for English. We develop GePpeTto, the first generative language model for Italian, built using the GPT-2 architecture.
De Mattei L +4 more
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Peculiarità stilistiche de "Fontamara" di Ignazio Silone Stylistic peculiarities of "Fontamara" by Ignazio Silone [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesThe current essay extracted from my Master theis, aims to examine several well-known arguments in ''Fontamara'' by Ignazio Silone, both from a stylistic and a linguistic point of view.
Ayman Atteya Seif Elnasr, Ashraf Mansour
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Object Clitic Reduplication in Perugino
Languages, 2022 This work describes a case of object clitic reduplication (OCR) in restructuring sentences, in a Central Italian dialect: Perugino. OCR (not attested in the local variety of Italian spoken in Perugia) is optional and alternates with either enclisis or ...
Elisa Di Domenico
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis investigates the development of the weak language in early bilingual language acquisition and its results are based on longitudinal and experimental data from 4 Italian-English bilingual children and their parents.
La Morgia, Francesca
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NEW TRENDS IN ITALIAN LITERATURE: FROM ECOCRITICISM TO MIGRANT LITERATURE
Filolog, 2022 In the present article the aim is to demonstrate that one of the ways to teach literature today, in the new millennium, when literary studies do not encourage interest among the new generations, could be through its relationship with other sciences, for
Nikica N. Mihaljević
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I rapporti sociali nel periodo del COVID-19 in “C’era una volta adesso” di Massimo Gramellini e “Wahm El-Koronā” di Hassan Ebeid Eissa [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social SciencesThis article analyzes and sheds light on the social changes in two novels written shortly after the outbreak of COVID-19. The novels, C’era una volta adesso by the Italian journalist and TV host Massimo Gramellini (the writer of the renowned ...
Abdelrahman Ibrahim
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