The morphophonological dimensions of Spanish gender marking: NP processing in Spanish bilinguals [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceThe processing literature provides some evidence that heritage Spanish speakers process gender like monolinguals, since gender-marking in definite articles facilitates their lexical access to nouns, albeit these effects may be reduced relative to ...
Ana T. Pérez-Leroux +6 more
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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]
Glossa, 2018 In this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jacopo Garzonio
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A Quantitative Approach to Microvariation: Negative Marking in Central Romance
Languages, 2022 This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre- and postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the Linguistic Atlas of France (ALF) and the Italo-Swiss Atlas (AIS ...
Diego Pescarini
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Microvariation in the Languages of the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2013 This issue of the Catalan Journal of Linguistics was conceived with the idea to promote comparative studies of the languages spoken in the Iberian Peninsula.
Francisco Ordóñez, Francesc Roca
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Microvariation in Catalan and Occitan complementizers: the so-called expletive se [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees ...
Gemma Rigau, Jordi Suïls
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LanguagesPresentational constructions, i.e., structures which introduce an event into the universe of discourse, raise the question of what it means for a predication to be entirely new in information structural terms.
Delia Bentley
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Bile Facilitates Human Norovirus Interactions with Diverse Histoblood Group Antigens, Compensating for Capsid Microvariation Observed in 2016–2017 GII.2 Strains [PDF]
Viruses, 2020 Lisa C Lindesmith +2 more
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Slavic Relative ČTO/CO: between Pronouns and Conjunctions [PDF]
Slovene, 2012 This paper presents the key points concerning Slavic relative constructions with a group of kindred invariable lexemes: Russian что, BCS što, Czech, Polish co, Slovak čo, and their cognates.
Philip R. Minlos
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Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss, 2022 The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of
Alexandra Fiéis +2 more
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Number Morphology and Bare Nouns in Some Romance Dialects of Italy
Languages, 2022 This paper explores aspects of microvariation concerning the morphological realization of the feature Number within nominal structures in a selected subset of Romance dialects of Italy.
Cristina Guardiano +2 more
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