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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement

Isogloss, 2021
The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Emergence or Grammaticalization? The Case of Negation in Kata Kolok

Languages, 2022
Typological comparisons have revealed that signers can use manual elements and/or a non-manual marker to express standard negation, but little is known about how such systematic marking emerges from its gestural counterparts as a new sign language arises.
Hannah Lutzenberger, Roland Pfau, Connie de Vos   +2 more
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Language Change in Progress: Chinese Internet Lexicon and the Symbolic Meaning in the Harmonious Society [PDF]

Nowa Polityka Wschodnia, 2020
Globalization and communication on the internet poses challenges to sociolinguistics. China is one of the engines of economic in the world. Since the Internet service started in 1994, it has been developing rapidly.
Ting-Yu Lee
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Double cosets in free groups [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper we study double cosets of finite rank free groups. We focus our attention on cancellation types in double cosets and their formal language properties.Comment: Minor ...
Frenkel, Elizaveta, Remeslennikov, Vladimir N.   +1 more
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Slovensko-romanski jezički kontakt na primeru dve pojave iz rezijskog

Slavia Meridionalis, 2018
Slavic-Romance language contact: the case of two phenomena in Resian This paper investigates the mechanisms of language contact in shaping two aspects of Resian nominal and clausal syntax, the quantifier karjë ‘many, much’ and the rise of subject ...
Marija Runić
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The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard, Hital Patel, Paula C. Vincent, Justine Kahn, Kira Bona, Thai Hoa Tran, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Kristopher Attwood, Kara M. Kelly   +8 more
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Understanding and Defining Young People's Involvement and Under‐Representation in Mental Health Research: A Delphi Study

Health Expectations
Introduction The mental health of young people (aged 16–25 years) is a growing public health concern in the United Kingdom due to the increasing numbers of young people experiencing mental health difficulties, with many not in contact with mental health ...
Rachel Perowne, Sarah Rowe, Leslie Morrison Gutman   +2 more
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Is language change chiefly a social diffusion affair? The role of entrenchment in frequency increase and in the emergence of complex structural patterns

Frontiers in Complex Systems
Complex systems research has chiefly investigated language change from a social dynamics perspective, with undeniable success. However, there is more to language change than social diffusion, i.e., a one-off adoption of an innovative variant by language ...
Quentin Feltgen
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Inherent causes of language change [PDF]

, 2010
The inevitable causes of language change are considered in this article. It gives an up-to-date view of the phonetic natural tendencies which are the predictable result of a human’s anatomical, physiological and psychological make-up.
Hrechykhina, N., Tymoshenko, T., Гречихіна, Н. В., Тимошенко, Т. В.   +3 more
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The biological origin of linguistic diversity [PDF]

, 2012
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to signal differences in meaning; some languages lack the noun-verb distinction
A Beja-Pereira, Andrea Baronchelli, D Gil, FC Dyer, K Smith, LL Cavalli-Sforza, M Dunn, MA Nowak, MB Miller, MH Christiansen, Morten H. Christiansen, N Chater, N Evans, Nick Chater, NL Komarova, PJ Richerson, R Boyd, R Jackendoff, RD Gray, Ricard V. Solé, RM Seyfarth, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, RT Hanlon, S Dehaene, S Pinker, S Számadó, SA Tishkoff, SC Levinson, TL Griffiths   +28 more
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