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Migration of loanwords in French legal terminology : a lexicographical perspective

Études romanes de Brno
Most French legal terms are well-known to derive from Latin terms. However, French legal terminology has also incorporated terms originating from other languages, such as Greek, Italian, and English.
Veronika Jodlová
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L’exemplification dans les articles prépositionnels des dictionnaires bilingues. Théorie et pratique

Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2012
The first part of the article deals with the function of the examples in bilingual dictionaries, compared to their function in monolingual ones. First, it is argued that examples in an active bilingual dictionary should principally exemplify the use of ...
Witold Ucherek
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Lexicography in Gabon : a survey [PDF]

, 2009
This paper traces the historical development of lexicography in Gabon. Gabon, like most African countries, is multilingual. The recent inventories of languages spoken in Gabon are those established by Jacquot (1978) and Kwenzi-Mikala (1998). According to
Assam, B. Nyangone, Mavoungou, Paul Achille   +1 more
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An Evaluation of Arabic Language Learning Websites

, 2012
As a result of ICT development and the increasingly growing use of the Internet in particular, practices of language teaching and learning are about to evolve significantly.
Abdessalem, Wahiba Ben, Achour, Hadhemi
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Word Associations in a Minoritised Language: The Case of Cymraeg (Welsh)

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As with many research strands in linguistics, word association (WA) literature is dominated by English language data. This paper (i) explores the extent to which methodologies developed to date are applicable to other languages—specifically, Welsh (Cymraeg)—and (ii) investigates what WA analysis can reveal about lexical organisation and ...
Tess Fitzpatrick, Steve Morris, Theodore Mills   +2 more
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Compiling a monolingual dictionary for native speakers.

Lexikos, 2010
This article gives a survey of the main issues confronting the compilers of monolingual dictionaries in the age of the Internet. Among others, it discusses the relationship between a lexical database and a monolingual dictionary, the role of corpus evidence, historical principles in lexicography vs.
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Head Gestures Do Not Serve as Precursors of Prosodic Focus Marking in the Second Language as They Do in the First Language

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Research shows that children use head gestures to mark discourse focus before developing the required prosodic cues in their first language (L1), and their gestures affect the prosodic parameters of their speech. We investigated whether head gestures also act as precursors and bootstrappers of prosodic focus marking in second language (L2 ...
Lieke van Maastricht, Núria Esteve‐Gibert   +1 more
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Drawing the Profile of Students of English as Dictionary Users

Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2014
Fifty freshmen students of English took part in a study in order to establish their profile as dictionary users. The respondents completed a questionnaire regarding the types of dictionaries they used, the frequency of use, the main reasons for ...
Chaker HAMDI
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Dictionaries in foreign language learning [PDF]

Zbornik radova (Univerzitet u Kragujevcu. Pedagoški fakultet u Užicu), 2017
Although many things concerning foreign language dictionaries have already been said and discussed in scientific papers, we can still add some facts that seem important at this moment.
Ljubičić Gordana M.
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Bootstrapping word alignment via word packing [PDF]

, 2007
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words together when we believe they correspond to a single word in the opposite ...
Ma, Yanjun, Stroppa, Nicolas, Way, Andy
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