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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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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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Presenting a Profile of Online Teaching Adaptation among the Iranian EFL High School Teachers [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2023 The forced transition to online instruction due to covid-19 pandemic brought about many changes and challenges. Therefore, evaluating these changes is of utmost importance.
Maliheh Yarahmadi +1 more
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An acoustic study of vocal expression in two genres of Yoruba oral poetry
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 This pilot study proposes an acoustic study of the vocal expressions in Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà, two genres of Yorùbá oral poetry. For this study, we conducted an experiment, involving the vocalization of an original poem in speech mode, Ìjálá and Ẹ̀sà.
Samuel K. Akinbo +3 more
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Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Languages leveraging Resource Rich Languages [PDF]
Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, 2018 Code-mixed data is an important challenge of natural language processing because its characteristics completely vary from the traditional structures of standard languages.
Nurendra Choudhary +3 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis study explores the effectiveness of image restoration strategies in pandemic crisis communication at the highest levels of administration. By integrating corpus-assisted discourse analysis with Image Repair Theory, it aims to uncover the prevailing ...
Xiping Wang +3 more
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Theory and description in African Linguistics [PDF]
, 2019 The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them.
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Cognitive decline is a disabling and variable feature of Parkinson disease (PD). While cholinergic system degeneration is linked to cognitive impairments in PD, most prior research reported cross‐sectional associations. We aimed to fill this gap by investigating whether baseline regional cerebral vesicular acetylcholine transporter ...
Taylor Brown +6 more
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Cultural Linguistics: Cultural conceptualisations and language
, 2017 This ground-breaking book marks a milestone in the history of the newly developed field of Cultural Linguistics, a multidisciplinary area of research that explores the relationship between language and cultural conceptualisations.
F. Sharifian
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Against statistical significance testing in corpus linguistics
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2019 In the first volume of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Gries (2005. Null-hypothesis significance testing of word frequencies: A follow-up on Kilgarriff. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1(2). doi:10.1515/cllt.2005.1.2.277.
Alexander Koplenig
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