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Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing on Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and Philosophical Grammar, it is shown that, from a hermeneutic perspective, the Middle Wittgenstein, develops a fluid model of understanding which supposes a fixable meaning of any given text. In this context, to understand a text (intransitively) means to (imaginatively) play the language games ...
Sebastian Abel
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Ilha do Desterro, 2016 In the present study we investigated a corollary of the multicompetence hypothesis as a description of language representation in bilingualism. According to this hypothesis, bilingualism entails a state of linguistic knowledge that does not correspond ...
Ricardo Augusto de Souza +2 more
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
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Metalinguistic Awareness In Bilingual Children [PDF]
, 2015 This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).Safinia, Layla. (2015). Metalinguistic Awareness In Bilingual Children.
Safinia, Layla
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Effect of Bilingualism on Metalinguistic Awareness: A Meta-Analysis
, 2021 Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to “reflect upon and manipulate the structural features of spoken language” (Turmer & Herriman, 1984; Nagy &Anderson, 1995). It is an important element of language learning and relationships have been found between
Miller, Adriana
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Metalinguistic awareness of primary five bilinguals in Singapore
, 2005 Metalinguistic awareness could be seen as the underlying construct that influences language use. Due to its ability to transcend languages, learners who are able to tap into their metalinguistic awareness could perform better on language tasks as ...
De Silva, Lorraine Anne
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On Kant's Definition of Analogy
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Prolegomena, Kant offers his official definition of analogy in terms of the perfect similarity of the relations holding for completely dissimilar pairs. Although interpreters neglect to reconstruct Kant's views on similarity, they often cite the Prolegomena definition and take it to characterise analogy as the identity of two relations.
Roberto Leone Zellini
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the role of locality (a task/material‐related variable), demographic factors (age, education, and sex), cognitive capacities (verbal working memory [WM], verbal short‐term memory [STM], speed of processing [SOP], and inhibition), and morphosyntactic category (time reference and grammatical aspect) in verb‐related ...
Marielena Soilemezidi +3 more
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Charting New Paths in the Study of Kin Term Acquisition
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract Kin terms appear among infants’ earliest words, yet a full mastery of kin concepts typically emerges only in late childhood. This prolonged developmental trajectory reflects not only children's acquisition of an abstract relational system of words, but also their growing understanding of social relationships and interactional norms.
Marisa Casillas +2 more
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Equality Amongst Speakers of English: Distributive and Relational Approaches
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores how egalitarians should characterise the complex and multifaceted inequalities associated with the ongoing global spread of English(es). We argue that global linguistic inequality today cannot be reduced to a single dimension, such as inequality of power or status.
Andrew Shorten, Sergi Morales‐Gálvez
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