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INTRODUCTION: SCENES OF CLOSE READING

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 281-297, July 2026.
Carolin Duttlinger, Dora Osborne, Lucia Ruprecht   +2 more
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Swift Prosodic Modulation of Lexical Access: Brain Potentials From Three North Germanic Language Varieties

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Purpose: According to most models of spoken word recognition, listeners probabilistically activate a set of lexical candidates, which is incrementally updated as the speech signal unfolds. Speech carries segmental (speech sound) as well as suprasegmental (prosodic) information.
Anna Hjortdal, Johan Frid, Mikael Novén, Mikael Roll   +3 more
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Pronoun inflection in the North Sea Germanic languages: The dative-accusative levelling in the first and second person singular

Filologia Germanica, 2017
North Sea Germanic languages were closely related in the Middle Ages, sharing many phonological, morphological and lexical features. A conspicuous grammatical parallel among these languages is found in the system of personal pronouns. In general Old Saxon makes no distinction between dative and accusative forms of the first and second person singular ...
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Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change

, 2015
This book presents new empirical findings about Germanic heritage varieties spoken in North America: Dutch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, West Frisian and Yiddish, and varieties of English spoken both by heritage speakers and in communities after language shift.
Janne Bondi Johannessen, Joseph C. Salmons   +1 more
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Inter-Generational Language Socialization Practices of German-Speaking Migrants in the North of Finland

Languages
This paper presents findings from an interview study of practices of home language socialization and maintenance of German among German-speaking migrants in northern Finland. The focus of the analysis was on the importance of the minority language German in families, the role of the regional varieties of German, different ways of socializing children ...
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Trends in the texts of national anthems: A comparative study. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Silaghi-Dumitrescu R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2023
Hartmann F, Jäger G.
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Sound-meaning associations allow listeners to infer the meaning of foreign language words. [PDF]

Commun Psychol, 2023
Hayakawa S, Marian V.
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Subject clitic languages in comparison: Subject clitics, finite verb movement and nominative case assignment in Germanic (Bavarian, Cimbrian) and Romance (French, North Italian) varieties

, 2019
Since the seminal work by Brandi & Cordin (1981; 1989), the syntactic differences between subject clitics in Italian dialects (Trentino and Fiorentino) and subject clitics in French have been assumed to rely on the value of the null subject parameter: subject clitics in Italian dialects behave like verbal affixes; that is, they do not realize a ...
Tomaselli, Alessandra, Bidese, Ermenegildo   +1 more
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Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints. [PDF]

Nat Hum Behav, 2023
Coventry KR, Gudde HB, Diessel H, Collier J, Guijarro-Fuentes P, Vulchanova M, Vulchanov V, Todisco E, Reile M, Breunesse M, Plado H, Bohnemeyer J, Bsili R, Caldano M, Dekova R, Donelson K, Forker D, Park Y, Pathak LS, Peeters D, Pizzuto G, Serhan B, Apse L, Hesse F, Hoang L, Hoang P, Igari Y, Kapiley K, Haupt-Khutsishvili T, Kolding S, Priiki K, Mačiukaitytė I, Mohite V, Nahkola T, Tsoi SY, Williams S, Yasuda S, Cangelosi A, Duñabeitia JA, Mishra RK, Rocca R, Šķilters J, Wallentin M, Žilinskaitė-Šinkūnienė E, Incel OD.   +44 more
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