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Coping with dialects from birth: Role of variability on infants' early language development. Insights from Norwegian dialects. [PDF]
Difference in looking proportion in the word comprehension task for bidialectal infants as a function of perceived similarity between parents' dialects, as reported by native Norwegian speakers. The shaded area represents 95% confidence interval. Abstract Previous research suggests that exposure to accent variability can affect toddlers’ familiar word ...
Kartushina N, Mayor J.
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The Dynamic Interplay of Kinetic and Linguistic Coordination in Danish and Norwegian Conversation
Abstract In conversation, individuals work together to achieve communicative goals, complementing and aligning language and body with each other. An important emerging question is whether interlocutors entrain with one another equally across linguistic levels (e.g., lexical, syntactic, and semantic) and modalities (i.e., speech and gesture), or whether
James P. Trujillo +4 more
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Arabic diglossia refers to the use of a two varieties (spoken and a literary Arabic), which some authors consider as a form of bilingualism. The processing of written spoken and literary Arabic words was analysed using behavioural and ERP measures. Processing written spoken words compared to processing low but not high‐frequency literary words.
Samer Andria +2 more
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Question tags across New Englishes
Abstract This paper presents a cross‐variety analysis of (variant and invariant) question tags in Philippine and Trinidadian English, using six dialogic text types from the corresponding components of the International Corpus of English (ICE). The cross‐variety comparison considers the similarities and differences across the two New Englishes in terms ...
Michael Westphal
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Interjections and emojis in Nigerian online communication
Abstract This study investigates Nigerian and English interjections and emojis used for expressing surprise in Nigerian online communication. Interested in the factors influencing the choice between a shocked emoji and an English or Nigerian interjection, we apply automated emotion analysis and a language detection measurement we developed for an 840 ...
Mirka Honkanen, Julia Müller
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MT Evaluation in the Context of Language Complexity
The paper focuses on investigating the impact of artificial agent (machine translator) on human agent (posteditor) using a proposed methodology, which is based on language complexity measures, POS tags, frequent tagsets, association rules, and their summarization. We examine this impact from the point of view of language complexity in terms of word and
Dasa Munkova +4 more
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SynoExtractor: A Novel Pipeline for Arabic Synonym Extraction Using Word2Vec Word Embeddings
Automatic synonym extraction plays an important role in many natural language processing systems, such as those involving information retrieval and question answering. Recently, research has focused on extracting semantic relations from word embeddings since they capture relatedness and similarity between words.
Rawan N. Al-Matham +2 more
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Verbal Suppletion in Romance Synchrony and Diachrony: The Perspective of Distributed Morphology
Abstract This article studies the various suppletive patterns found with respect to the Romance movement verb go, both under a diachronic and a synchronic perspective, within the framework of Distributed Morphology (DM). The Romance varieties all started with the loss of verbal forms of Lat.
Natascha Pomino, Eva‐Maria Remberger
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Léxico de la vivienda en el español centroamericano
El presente es un trabajo empírico de carácter dialectal, semántico y etnolingüístico, el cual describe y analiza vocablos relacionados con el mundo de la vivienda en el español centroamericano.
Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco
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Variación léxica y zonas dialectales de Castilla-la Mancha
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar la variación léxica dentro de la comunidad de Castilla-La Mancha a través de las herramientas de análisis que proporciona la línea de investigación de la disponibilidad léxica.
Natividad Hernández Muñoz
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