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, 2020 ABSTRACT FOR THE BOOK: Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to ...
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, 2011 Linguistic relativity, sometimes called the Whorfian hypothesis, posits that properties of language affect the structure and content of thought and thus the way humans perceive reality. A distinction is often made between strong Whorfian views, according to which the categories of thought are determined by language, and weak views, which argue that ...
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Dialectometry of Linguistic Varieties Common in the Distance between the South of Hamadan Province to the North of Khuzestan Province: Using Levenshtein Distance Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایرانDialectometry is a computational, quantitative and statistical approach, in which linguistic differences, in a selected geographical area, are examined by using specific methods and techniques.
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THE UNITY OF LINGUISTICS AND THE PLACE OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS
, 2023 Modern structural linguistics, of course, does not pretend to be an exhaustive solution to this problem, but it indicates the area where the language of mathematics can be used as such a “koyne” (the area of linguistic modeling outlined in chapter I) and shows ways to expand this areas and adaptations of the language used in it for the needs all ...
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LCTL Teachers’ Assessment Knowledge and Practices: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2013 Language assessment allows teachers to gather information about student learning and adjust their instructional practices accordingly. When integrated with instruction, assessment can support student-centered teaching by helping instructors understand
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2011 AbstractCognitive linguistics is one of the fastest growing and influential perspectives on the nature of language, the mind, and their relationship with sociophysical (embodied) experience. It is a broad theoretical and methodological enterprise, rather than a single, closely articulated theory. Its primary commitments are outlined.
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Linguistic categories and linguists categorizations [PDF]
Linguistics, 1999 The article deals with the notion of category and the linguists' operations for delimiting linguistic categories. A threefold organization is suggested that subdivides categories into features and features into values. Every word of natural language can be categorically described via a matrix of values that represent the implementation of features that,
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CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS AND COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
, 2023 This article deals with the analysis of contrastive linguistics and cognitive linguistics.
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Linguistics in applied linguistics : a historical overview
Journal of English Studies, 2002 This paper looks at some of the underlying reasons which might explain the uncertainty surrounding applied linguistics as an academic enquiry. The opening section traces the emergence of the field through its professional associations and publications ...
Tony Harris
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Does Scale-Free Syntactic Network Emerge in Second Language Learning?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Language is a complex system during whose operation many properties may emerge spontaneously. Using complex network approach, existing studies have found that, in first language (L1) acquisition, syntactic complex network featuring the scale-free and the
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