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Laboratory PhonologyRecent studies indicated that Papuan Malay, spoken in the Eastern provinces of Indonesia, has regular penultimate word stress. Only when schwa occurs in the penultimate syllable, stress is ultimate, making the pattern highly predictable.
Constantijn Kaland
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Weight effects and the parametrization of the foot: English versus Portuguese
Laboratory PhonologyThis article explores the possibility that even though English and Portuguese present similar stress patterns on the surface, the two languages may be formally different: whereas English offers strong evidence for the foot, Portuguese does not.
Guilherme D Garcia, Heather Goad
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Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 The paper presents a corpus-based comparative study of denominal adjectives in Dutch, German, and English. It aims at clarifying the notion of approximation. More specifically, it focuses on investigating the relation between approximation and comparison
Matthias Hüning, Barbara Schlücker
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Investigating on Creating a Software Application for an On-Screen Explanatory Dictionary
ПсихолінгвістикаThe aim of the research is to develop methods and tools for creating an on-screen explanatory dictionary application. The research focuses on designing a web application for an explanatory dictionary, studying the functioning processes of explanatory ...
Валентина Плескач +4 more
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Costa rican spanish speakers’ Phonetic discrimination
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2017 Costa Rican Spanish listeners associate intervocalic [z] with specific social attributes in a matched-guise test (Chappell 2016) but experience difficulty when explicitly asked to produce or even comment on the variant.
Whitney Chappell
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Going “out” to Vienna: Sociogeographic perspectivization in Central European languages
ELAD-SILDAThis paper examines the use of spatial adverbs and preverbs, such as up, down, in or out, in combination with toponyms in directional and local expressions in a number of nonstandard varieties of Alpine Gallo-Romance, Burgenland Croatian ...
Jakob Wiedner, Daphne Reitinger
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The concept fury in Ukrainian media: Semiotic and cognitive potential
ELAD-SILDAThis article examines the semiotic and cognitive dimensions of the concept fury, which has recently gained significant prominence in Ukrainian war-related media.
Ievgeniia Bondarenko
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The English privative prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi-: Approximation and 'disproximation'
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 The English prefixes near-, pseudo- and quasi- are privative, in that whatever essential property their morphological base expresses is not strictly possessed by an entity characterized as near-/pseudo-/quasi-X.
Bert Cappelle +2 more
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On some aspectual adverbs – in Brazilian Portuguese and in Chilean Spanish – that seem ambiguous
ELAD-SILDAWe turn to Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Chilean Spanish (CS) in our study of some aspectual adverbs which, according to Cinque (1999, 2004), have a dual source both concerning their position in the universal hierarchy of adverbs and their scope.
Aquiles Tescari Neto +1 more
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Getting close-ish: A corpus based exploration of -ish as a marker of approximation and vagueness
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 This paper investigates the approximative nature of -ish, which takes its origin in de-adjectival adjectives in Middle English and from there spreads to -ish-derivatives from a wide array of bases, in terms of both categoriality and complexity.
Matthias Eitelmann, Dagmar Haumann
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