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Native language, spoken language, translation and trade [PDF]

Journal of International Economics, 2014
We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for 195 countries, which we use together with series for common official language and linguistic proximity in order to draw inferences about (1) the aggregate impact of all linguistic factors on bilateral trade, (2) the separate role of ease of communication as distinct from ...
Melitz, Jacques, Toubal, Farid
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Can characters reveal your native language? A language-independent approach to native language identification [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014
A common approach in text mining tasks such as text categorization, authorship identification or plagiarism detection is to rely on features like words, part-of-speech tags, stems, or some other high-level linguistic features. In this work, an approach that uses character n-grams as features is proposed for the task of native language identification ...
Radu Tudor Ionescu, Marius Popescu, Aoife Cahill   +2 more
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First Language Acquisition by Roma and Slovak Children

East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021
The study analyzes the context and relationships of the progress in first language acquisition by monolingual children (First language: Slovak) and Roma-Slovak bilingual children (First language: Romani), as determined by the type of Roma community in ...
Milan Samko , Michal Čerešník , Miroslava Čerešníková   +2 more
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Effects of Native-language on Compensation for Coarticulation [PDF]

UC Berkeley Phonology Lab Annual Reports, 2014
We tested compensation for vowel coarticulation on a continuum from "s" to "sh".French listeners showed compensation for both round vowels /u/ and /y/.American English listeners showed compensation for only the native phoneme /u/.The American English pattern remained unchanged even with videos of the talker.Listeners' native language affects the degree
Kang, Shinae, Johnson, Keith, Finley, Gregory   +2 more
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Processing empty categories in a second language: When naturalistic exposure fills the (intermediate) gap [PDF]

, 2013
An ongoing debate on second language (L2) processing revolves around whether or not L2 learners process syntactic information similarly to monolinguals (L1), and what factors lead to a native-like processing. According to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis
Marinis, Theo, Marinis, Theodoros, Pliatsikas, Christos   +2 more
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Debugging native extensions of dynamic languages [PDF]

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Managed Languages & Runtimes - ManLang '18, 2018
Many dynamic programming languages such as Ruby and Python enable developers to use so called native extensions, code implemented in typically statically compiled languages like C and C++. However, debuggers for these dynamic languages usually lack support for also debugging these native extensions.
Jacob Kreindl, Manuel Rigger, Hanspeter Mössenböck   +2 more
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Interpreting language-learning data

, 2020
This book provides a forum for methodological discussions emanating from researchers engaged in studying how individuals acquire an additional language.
Gudmestad, Aarnes; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Huang, Xiaoliang; Beijing Foreign Studies University, Leclercq, Pascale; Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Trévisiol, Pascale; Université Paris 3 & DILTEC EA 2288, Watorek, Marzena; Université Paris 8 & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Scheuer, Sylwia; University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Horgues, Céline; University of Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, Majdoub, Hedi; Université Paris 8 & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Yu, Xinyue Cécilia; Inalco - CNRS - EHESS, CRLAO, Pélissier, Maud; University of Agder, Rast, Rebekah; American University of Paris & UMR-SFL, CNRS, Søfteland, Åshild; Østfold University College, Guan, Qianwen; City University of Hong Kong, Emilsen, Linda Evenstad; Østfold University College, Hilton, Heather E.; Université Lumière Lyon 2, Edmonds, Amanda, Leclercq, Pascale, Osborne, John; Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Gudmestad, Aarnes   +18 more
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Prosody and interactional fluency of Italian learners of German

This book explores the development of prosodic and interactional competence in second language acquisition, drawing on data from peer interactions by Italian learners of German in both German and their native language, Italian, as well as from German ...
Sbranna, Simona; University of Cologne
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Рідна мова vs мова повсякденного спілкування в оцінках українців

Slavia Meridionalis, 2021
Native Language vs the Language of Everyday Communication in Ukrainians’ Opinions The Russian language is used every day by a lot of Ukrainians who consider their native language to be Ukrainian and who attribute themselves to the largest ethnic ...
Олена [Olena] Руда [Ruda]
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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism

, 2020
This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
Gudmundson, Anna, Sleeman, Petra, Sánchez, Laura, Sciutti, Sandro, Bardel, Camilla, Salaberry, Rafael, Muñoz, Carmen, Stadt, Rosalinde, Pfenninger, Simone E., Hulk, Aafke   +9 more
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