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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011 We characterise how the assimilation patterns of minorities into the strong and the weak language differ in a situation of asymmetric bilingualism. Using large variations in language composition in Canadian cities from the 2001 and 2006 Censuses, we show that the differences in the knowledge of English by immigrant allophones (i.e.
Ortega, Javier, Verdugo, Gregory
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Teachers’ Beliefs About Multilingualism at Universities in North Macedonia
SEEU Review, 2023 The purpose of this study was to explore teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism at universities in North Macedonia. Multilingualism as a concept is related to an individual’s ability to speak three or more languages.
Xhaferi Brikena +2 more
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Multilingualism research in Anglophone contexts as a discursive construction of multilingual practice [PDF]
, 2015 This article investigates the presence of multilingualism as an academic practice within the field of research in multilingualism by examining the citation practices of research publishing in key English-language journals in the field.
Liddicoat, Anthony
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Productive vocabulary learning in pre-primary education through soft CLIL
Open Linguistics, 2022 The present study aims to contribute to the field of Foreign Language (FL) acquisition by analysing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vocabulary learning in pre-primary education learners following a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL ...
Segura Marta +2 more
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Interlitteraria, 2021 Literature – Multilingual on Principle?! The Political Potential of Literary Multilingualism Today, using the Example of Barbi Marković’s Superheldinnen.
Sandra Vlasta
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The role of multilingualism in selected text types [PDF]
, 2019 The paper deals with the role of multilingualism in selected text types. The reflections on forms of multilingualism and occasions for using multiple languages in a text lead to the creation of a typologythat distinguishes between obligatory and optional
Jarosz, Józef
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The Multilingual Picture Database [PDF]
Scientific Data, 2022 AbstractThe growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, which dominates the field.
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia +31 more
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My many selves are still me: Motivation and multilingualism [PDF]
, 2020 Two concepts of multilingualism that relate to the selves aspect of Dörnyei’s (2009) L2 motivational self system (L2MSS) are highlighted in this article: Thompson’s concept of perceived positive language interaction (PPLI) and Henry’s notion of the ideal
Thompson, Amy S.
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Multilingual Sentence Transformer as A Multilingual Word Aligner
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022 Multilingual pretrained language models (mPLMs) have shown their effectiveness in multilingual word alignment induction. However, these methods usually start from mBERT or XLM-R. In this paper, we investigate whether multilingual sentence Transformer LaBSE is a strong multilingual word aligner.
Wang, Weikang +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The current study examines the role of action-depicting gestures in conversational turns by focusing on their semantic characteristics and temporal position in relation to their verbal affiliates (action verbs or more complex verb phrases).
Paweł Urbanik +2 more
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