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Linguistic distance to English impedes research performance [PDF]
Research Policy, 2023 This is the final version. Available on open access from Elsevier via the DOI in this record ; Data availability: Data will be made available on request. ; oday, scientific knowledge is predominantly disseminated in English. We show that global universities’ research performance, as measured by publications in top journals, declines as the differences ...
Yihui Cao +3 more
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Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance between English and Other Languages [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004 This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the ‘distance’ between English and a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty Americans have learning other languages. The linguistic distance measure is then used in an analysis of the determinants of English language proficiency among adult ...
Chiswick, B., Miller, Paul
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Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Abstract This paper analyzes the location choice of migrants at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ability to communicate in the host country language, as proxied by linguistic distance, are substitutes in the location decision. Based on individual-level data from a special evaluation of the European Labour Force Survey (
Julia Bredtmann +2 more
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Measuring Linguistic Distance in Athapaskan
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2013 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Since the last attempts to establish sub-grouping in Athapaskan (cf. Mithun 1999), the field has benefited from a wider availability of data through published grammars, dictionaries, and articles, as well the greater ease of accessibility to digital archives containing field notes and other relevant ...
Conor Snoek, Christopher Cox
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Uncertain Linguistic Aggregation Distance Measures and Their Application to Group Decision Making
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2013 We introduce a method based on distance measures for group decision making under uncertain linguistic environment. We develop some uncertain linguistic aggregation distance measures called the uncertain linguistic weighted distance (ULWD) measure, the ...
Wei Li, Shouzhen Zeng
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 How linguistic distance affects second language acquisition is a major concern in cross-language transfer research. However, no study has explored how systematic differences between Chinese and learners’ native language (L1) influences Chinese character,
Xingsan Chai, Jie Bao
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 2022 In this paper I present an overview of the linguistic distance separating the Breton-speaking communities of western Brittany, France. This was achieved by applying a dialectometric approach dedicated to the quantitative analysis of dialectal data ...
Tanguy Solliec
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 In the midst of globalization, English is regarded as an international language, or Lingua Franca, but learning it as a second language (L2) remains still difficult to speakers of other languages.
Katsumasa Shinozuka +6 more
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Interpersonal synchrony across vocal and lexical modalities in interactions involving children with autism spectrum disorder [PDF]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 Quantifying behavioral synchrony can inform clinical diagnosis, long-term monitoring, and individualised interventions in neuro-developmental disorders characterized by deficit in communication and social interaction, such as autism spectrum disorder. In
Rimita Lahiri +6 more
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The effect of linguistic abstraction on interpersonal distance [PDF]
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2007 AbstractIt is well known that people describe positive behaviors of others close to them (e.g., in‐group member, friend) in abstract terms, but with concrete terms in the case of people who they are not close to (e.g., out‐group member, enemy). In contrast, negative behaviors of people who we are close to are described in concrete terms, but in ...
Reitsma - van Rooijen, P.M. +2 more
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