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Análisis de la explosión del vocabulario en infantes hispano hablantes [PDF]
The vocabulary spurt produced by eight infants was registered weekly during a 16-months period and analyzed. The verbal utterances of the infants were observed and recorded during everyday activities in natural surroundings.
Eduardo Hernández Padilla +1 more
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Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or attrition?
This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the three-gender system is to some ...
Terje eLohndal +3 more
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AbstractCollective nouns such as family, group, and herd combine properties associated with singularity or ‘oneness’ and properties associated with plurality, on all levels of grammar (lexical–conceptual, morphosyntactic, and semantic). Because of this property, they provide a unique window into the various factors that influence the expression and ...
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LEXICAL AND DERIVATIONAL PECULIARITIES OF NOUNS WITH FINAL -K(A) IN ZAVOLZHSKY DIALECT
The issues raised in the article go in line with a current linguistic problem – dialectal mapping of the territory of Volgograd region. The language material that constitutes the empirical base of the research was collected during dialectological ...
Shatskaya Marina Fedorovna
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Survival processing versus self-reference : a memory advantage following descriptive self-referential encoding [PDF]
Previous research has shown that rating words for their relevance to a survival scenario leads to better retention of the words than rating them for self-reference. Past studies have, however, relied exclusively on an autobiographical self-reference task
Anderson, Rachel J. +3 more
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The semantics of nouns derived from gradable adjectives [PDF]
What semantics should we attribute to nouns like "wisdom" and "generosity", which are derived from gradable adjectives? We show that, from a morphosyntactic standpoint, these nouns are mass nouns.
Nicolas, David
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On social femininatives in Serbian and other Slavic languages [PDF]
Social femininatives, such as Serbian pevačica, učiteljica, upravnica, available in all Slavic languages, have in recent decades become a subject of language policy based on political correctness in the field of gender relations. As part of this
Piper Predrag J.
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Category-Based Effect on False Memory of People with Down Syndrome
Background: People with Down syndrome (DS) are deficient in verbal memory but relatively preserved in visuospatial perception. Verbal memories are related to semantic knowledge.
Ching-Fen Hsu, Qian Jiang, Shi-Yu Rao
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Variables, Generality and Existence: considerations on the notion of a concept-script [PDF]
A defense of the Frege / Russell idea of logic as a 'concept=script' or 'ideal language', and a discussion of the relationship of this project to the formalisation of mass nouns or non-count ...
Laycock, Professor Henry
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The acquisition of Greek case, number, and gender: a usage based approach [PDF]
Children […] growing up with highly inflected languages such as Modern Greek will frequently hear different grammatical forms of a given lexeme used in different grammatical and semantic-pragmatic contexts. In spite of the fact that the Greek noun is not
Christofidou, Anastasia +1 more
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