Ecolinguistics for and beyond the Sustainable Development Goals
Journal of World Languages, 2022 This article considers potential impacts the study of language, including ecolinguistics, can have on important real-world issues, and how linguists and others can involve themselves in addressing these issues for a sustainable future.
Chau Meng Huat +8 more
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Online support-provision in the self-disclosure of eating disorders
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021 This paper highlights the importance of appropriate communication with individuals who suffer from eating disorders (ED). The negative perception that society has towards ED often leads its patients to conceal their problems and avoid seeking help ...
Nur Azwin Zulkarnain +2 more
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Morphology in micro linguistics and macro linguistics
Macrolinguistics and Microlinguistics, 2021 This study aims to examine the morphological aspects and their application in micro linguistics and micro linguistics. Linguistics in terms of study can be divided into two types, namely micro linguistics and macro linguistics.
Londre Vocroix
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Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics [PDF]
, 2021 This paper argues for a place for linguistics within the UK Modern Languages curriculum as part of a more pluralistic approach to languages study. Based on an intervention involving over 300 A-level students of French, German and Spanish, we demonstrate:
Havinga, A. +4 more
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They Talk Muṯumuṯu: Variable Elision of Tense Suffixes in Contemporary Pitjantjatjara
Languages, 2021 Vowel elision is common in Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara connected speech. It also appears to be a locus of language change, with young people extending elision to new contexts; resulting in a distinctive style of speech which speakers refer to as ...
Sasha Wilmoth +2 more
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Modeling Language Variation and Universals: A Survey on Typological Linguistics for Natural Language Processing [PDF]
Computational Linguistics, 2018 Linguistic typology aims to capture structural and semantic variation across the world’s languages. A large-scale typology could provide excellent guidance for multilingual Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly for languages that suffer from ...
E. Ponti +7 more
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Redefinition of Compounding in Sorani Kurdish Morphology: An Investigation on Nominal Compounds in Construction Morphology Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانThe main objective of this paper is to conduct an investigation on nominal compounds of Sorani in the framework of Booij’s construction morphology (2010) to obtain schemas in different levels; namely higher order, intermediate, and subschema based on the
kourosh karimi +3 more
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Learning on the Field: L2 Turkish Vowel Production by L1 American English-Speaking NGOs in Turkey
Languages, 2022 This study adopts the Speech Learning Model to investigate the first language (L1) influence as well as the effects of the length of residence and second language (L2) exposure on American English-speaking learners of Turkish in their productions of ...
Keryn de Jonge, Olga Maxwell, Helen Zhao
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Clarifying translanguaging and deconstructing named languages: A perspective from linguistics
, 2015 The concept of translanguaging is clarified, establishing it as a particular conception of the mental grammars and linguistic practices of bilinguals. Translanguaging is different from code switching.
Ricardo Otheguy +2 more
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Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics
, 2013 In this paper, we bring to the attention of the linguistic community recent research on heritage languages. Shifting linguistic attention from the model of a monolingual speaker to the model of a multilingual speaker is important for the advancement of ...
E. Benmamoun, S. Montrul, M. Polinsky
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