Microvariation in the Resolution of Pronominal Subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss A Journal on Variation of Romance and Iberian Languages, 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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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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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 second form of the infinitive in Campania
IsoglossCampanian dialects such as Neapolitan feature a so-called ‘second form of the infinitive’ (SFI), a form consisting of the bare verbal stem, which can be used after functional verbs.
Kim Groothuis, Mirella De Sisto
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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, Francesco Maria Ciconte
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Quantitative modelling and syntactic microvariation
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico MilaneseThis paper argues that parametric theories should account for statistically significant associations between syntactic variables that are logically and historically independent.
Diego Pescarini
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Analysis of Aspergillus spp. Isolates According to Temporal-Spatial, Sociodemographic, and Clinical Variables-Microsatellite Typing of Clinical and Environmental Samples of Aspergillus fumigatus in a University Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [PDF]
MycosesABSTRACT Background Typing Aspergillus species is crucial for understanding the sources of infection in hospital environments. Objectives This study analysed clinical and air samples as well as their relationship with the clinical forms of aspergillosis.
Fonseca CA +18 more
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Magnetocardiography in the Evaluation of Sudden Cardiac Death Risk: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Ann Noninvasive ElectrocardiolSudden cardiac death is responsible for 15%–20% of deaths globally/year, predominantly due to VA caused by vulnerable cardiac substrate. Current risk predictors of SCD based on ECG and LV function parameters have significant limitations. Magnetocardiography offers hope for better risk‐prediction, and we evaluated the evidence base for this technology ...
Lachlan T +6 more
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Microvariation in the Languages of the Iberian Peninsula
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. The importance of comparison in linguistics dates back to neogrammarians in the xix century due to their interest of discovering the common roots of most of the languages spoken in Europe.
Francisco Ordóñez, Francesc Roca
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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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