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Different Features of Bilingualism in Relation to Executive Functioning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The notion that the long-term practice of managing two languages is beneficial for the executive control system is an ongoing debate. Criticism have been raised that studies demonstrating a bilingual advantage often suffer from small sample sizes, and do
Daniel Eriksson Sörman +2 more
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Linguistic Distances and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Disenfranchisement Indices [PDF]
, 2016 Ruhlen (1994) reconstructed 27 words of the very first language. Some linguists raised eyebrows about the words themselves, but not so much about the idea that all our languages descend from one, or a very small number of, language(s).1 Today, most linguists think that the diversity of languages is the result of the migration ‘out of Africa’ of Homo ...
Ginsburgh, Victor, Weber, Shlomo
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, 2023 This paper focuses on Putin’s (2021) misguided claim regarding “historical [linguistic] unity” of Russian and Ukrainian. Their being two distinct languages is not in question, as opposed (for example) to Serbian and Croatian.
Anyssa Murphy +11 more
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Linguistic distance and psychosis in ethnic minorities [PDF]
, 2023 BACKGROUND: Ethnic minorities in the Netherlands face an excess psychosis risk, and understanding of causality remains limited. Linguistic disadvantage and other indicators of societal exclusion might play a role, and offer potential targets for public ...
de Haan, L +5 more
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Determinants of language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia
Journal of World Languages, 2023 This study aims to examine linguistic and non-linguistic determinants that contribute to language change in the Gurage area of Ethiopia. The linguistic and non-linguistic determinants were investigated by combining methods of dialectometry and mutual ...
Feleke Tekabe Legesse
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 The study tested the impact of the phonological and lexical distance between a dialect of Palestinian Arabic spoken in the north of Israel (SpA) and Modern Standard Arabic (StA or MSA) on word and non-word repetition in children with specific language ...
Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, Ola Ghawi-Dakwar
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Mapping the dimensions of linguistic distance: A study on South Ethiosemitic languages [PDF]
Lingua, 2020 We measured the distance among selected South Ethiosemitic languages from three dimensions: structural, functional and perceptual. The main objectives of our study was to determine the relationship among these three dimensions of linguistic distances, to re-examine previous classifications of the languages, and to measure the degree of mutual ...
Tekabe Legesse Feleke +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 This study addressed the development of and the relationship between foundational metalinguistic skills and word reading skills in Arabic. It compared Arabic-speaking children’s phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness, and voweled and ...
Rachel Schiff, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad
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Géolinguistique, 2021 This article analyses the Breton phonetic data provided by Jean Le Dû’s Nouvel Atlas linguistique de la Basse‑Bretagne. It is studied from the standpoint of a concept called “linguistic distance”.
Tanguy Solliec
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Assessment of factors influencing the stability of Ukrainian export based on the fractal analysis [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The article considered the assessment of the sustainability of the export flow of Ukraine. It was determined that the markets of Slovakia, the Russian Federation, Germany, Poland and Lithuania possess longterm memory.
Kainara Dmytro, Kaliuzhna Iuliia
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