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Recent research has shown that seemingly identical suffixes such as word-final /s/ in English show systematic differences in their phonetic realisations.
Dominic Schmitz +3 more
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The Study of Social Factors' Role in Phonological and Lexical Variations in Hawrami (Paveh Dialect) based on Variationist Sociolinguistics [PDF]
This paper offers a study of phonological and lexical variations in Hawrami (paveh dialect) based on Variationist Sociolinguistics. In this paper the influence of two non-linguistic factors (age and gender) on one phonological variation (use of allophone]
Nadya Safiei +3 more
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Evidentiality in the interrogator's Persuasion [PDF]
Forensic Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that began its work in the US and European courts in 1997. Since then, linguists have been able to expedite the processing of many cases by analyzing linguistic tools.
Masoud Dehghan, Atiyeh Karami
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A War on War Metaphor: Metaphorical Framings in Croatian Discourse on Covid-19
Previous studies show that public discourse and social media discourse around the Covid-19 pandemic heavily use war framing, despite the fact that its misuse and inaptness to elaborate all aspects of the pandemic were already noted.
Kristina Štrkalj Despot +1 more
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No genericity in sight: An exploration of the semantics of masculine generics in German
Findings of previous behavioural studies suggest that the semantic nature of what is known as the ‘masculine generic’ in Modern Standard German is indeed not generic but biased towards a masculine reading.
Dominic Schmitz +2 more
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Basic Characteristics and Aspectual Properties of Croatian ObjExp Verbs
This paper discusses the basic characteristics of ObjExp verbs in Croatian (thematic roles, argument structure, anticausative variant, aspect of the verb), with special attention paid to the aspectual properties of such verbs.
Matea Birtić, Ivana Brač
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Negation in English, Arabic and Kurdish: A Contrastive Study
The present study focuses on the points of similarities and differences found in English, Arabic and Kurdish languages in terms of negation. The three languages belong to different families and they all exist in the researchers own country (Iraq). Arabic
Asst. Inst. Nafal Salih Islam +1 more
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Linguistics in the Study and Teaching of Literature [PDF]
Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate ...
Fabb, Nigel
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Language, Linguistics and Cognition [PDF]
Experimental research during the last few decades has provided evidence that language is embedded in a mosaic of cognitive functions. An account of how language interfaces with memory, perception, action and control is no longer beyond the scope of linguistics, and can now be seen as part of an explanation of linguistic structure itself.
Baggio, G. +2 more
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Singular concord in Kalhori Kurdish: A distributed morphology approach [PDF]
Introduction Concord, or agreement, is defined as the correspondence between the morphosyntactic categories of two or more grammatical units. The most common type of concord across languages is subject-verb agreement in terms of number [SG/PL ...
Hannah Hosseini +2 more
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