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Presentational/Existential Structures in Spoken versus Written German: Es Gibt and SEIN [PDF]

, 2013
This article presents a synchronic, corpus-based examination of spoken German with regard to the distribution and function of presentational/ existential es gibt NP and a range of SEIN NP structures such as da SEIN , locative SEIN , es SEIN , and zero ...
Weinert, Regina
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Phonological Factors Affecting L1 Phonetic Realization of Proficient Polish Users of English [PDF]

, 2015
Acoustic phonetic studies examine the L1 of Polish speakers with professional level proficiency in English. The studies include two tasks, a production task carried out entirely in Polish and a phonetic code-switching task in which speakers insert target
Anna Balas, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Antoniou, Arkadiusz Rojczyk, Best, Best, Brunner, Brunner, Bullock, Bullock, Chang, Chang, Cook, Cook, Cruttenden, Cruttenden, Davidson, Davidson, Dilley, Dilley, Dogil, Dogil, Flege, Flege, Flege, Flege, Garellek, Garellek, Geoffrey Schwartz, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Grosjean, Harada, Harada, Kraska, Kraska, Maddieson, Maddieson, Munro, Munro, Newlin, Newlin, Olson, Olson, Sancier, Sancier, Schwartz, Schwartz, Strange, Strange, Sypiańska, Sypiańska, Umeda, Umeda, Waniek, Waniek, Wiese, Wiese, Zampini, Zampini   +62 more
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A target-oriented approach to neutrality in vowel harmony: Evidence from Hungarian

Glossa, 2019
This paper provides a novel perspective on neutrality in vowel harmony, using evidence from Hungarian. Despite the extensive study of Hungarian vowel harmony, the intermediate neutrality of [e:], which can alternate harmonically with [a:], is rarely ...
Avery Ozburn
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Semantic Models for the Translation of Greek Institutional Terms in the Field of Education [PDF]

, 2006
This article takes under consideration a notorious problem area for Greek Italian and Spanish Greek translators, caused by the gap of standardized international academic terminology, a situation that creates incongruity: 1) between the Italian and the ...
Kassapi, Eleni
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The source ambiguity problem: Distinguishing the effects of grammar and processing on acceptability judgments [PDF]

, 2013
Judgments of linguistic unacceptability may theoretically arise from either grammatical deviance or significant processing difficulty. Acceptability data are thus naturally ambiguous in theories that explicitly distinguish formal and functional ...
Anderson J. R., Ariel M., Ariel M., Baayen R., Bates E., Bolinger D., Braze F. D., Bresnan J., Bresnan J., Bybee J., Bybee J., Chomsky N., Chomsky N., Chomsky N., Chung S., Comorovski I., Comorovski I., Culicover P., Gibson E., Ginzburg J., Goldberg A. E., Grohmann K., Hawkins J., Hawkins J., Hofmeister P., Hofmeister P., Hofmeister P., Inbal Arnon, Ivan A. Sag, Jacoby L., Jaeger T. F., Jaeger T. F., Johnson K., Karttunen L., Kemmer S., Kluender R., Kuno S., Labov W., Labov W., Langacker R., Maling J., McDaniel M., Miller G. A., Nairne J. S., Nairne J. S., Neal Snider, Osterhout L., Pesetsky D., Pesetsky D., Philip Hofmeister, Pierrehumbert J., Pinheiro J., Ross J. R., Swinney D., T. Florian Jaeger, Tanenhaus M., Thompson S., Wilkins W., Wilkins W.   +58 more
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Degraded acceptability and markedness in syntax, and the stochastic interpretation of optimality theory [PDF]

, 2004
The argument that I tried to elaborate on in this paper is that the conceptual problem behind the traditional competence/performance distinction does not go away, even if we abandon its original Chomskyan formulation. It returns as the question about the
Vogel, Ralf
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Optimality Theory as a Framework for Lexical Acquisition

, 2014
This paper re-investigates a lexical acquisition system initially developed for French.We show that, interestingly, the architecture of the system reproduces and implements the main components of Optimality Theory.
A. Arun, A. Prince, B. Aarts, C. Fabre, J. McCarthy, M. Butt, M.R. Brent, N. Chomsky, R. Kager   +8 more
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Examining the life cycle of phonological processes: considerations for historical research [PDF]

, 2016
The  life  cycle  of  phonological  processes  (e.g.  Bermúdez‐Otero  2015)  provides  an  account  of  how  a  sound  change  might  develop  over  the  history  of  a language,  from its  beginnings in  the  pressures  of  speaking  and hearing ...
Sen, R.
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Deconstructing the Subject Condition in terms of cumulative constraint violation [PDF]

, 2014
Chomsky (1973) attributes the island status of nominal subjects to the Subject Condition, a constraint specific to subjects. English and Spanish are interesting languages for the comparative study of extraction from subjects, because subjects in English ...
Haegeman, L, Jim�nez-Fern�ndez, L, Radford, A   +2 more
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Situating Experience in Social Meaning: Stance, Salience, and Enregisterment

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 136-147, April 2025.
ABSTRACT This article uses mixed methods to establish how social meanings are situated in lived experiences. I test whether Greek listeners recognize features of Istanbul Greek (IG) and whether they associate the same social meanings with the variety as IG speakers. Results from a verbal guise experiment and metapragmatic stancetaking discourse suggest
Matthew John Hadodo
wiley   +1 more source