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Language change for the worse [PDF]

Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard, Hyman, Larry M.; University of California, Berkeley, Elsweiler, Christine, Hölzl, Andreas, Faytak, Matthew, Hölzl, Andreas; University of Potsdam, Lapierre, Myriam, Weber, Thilo; Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Seiler, Guido; University of Zurich, Matoshi, Veton, Enke, Dankmar W.; LMU Munich, Nichols, Johanna; University of California, Berkeley, Deo, Ashwini, Huber, Judith, Reiner, Tabea, Jäger, Gerhard, Mühlenbernd, Roland   +16 more
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Language, creoles, varieties: From emergence to transmission

, 2023
This book offers a selection of papers dealing with second language acquisition, foreign language teaching and creole linguistics inspired by the scientific legacy of Mauritian-born scholar Georges Daniel Véronique (Port-Louis, 1948).
Kihm, Alain, Saddour, Inès, Andorno, Cecilia, Saturno, Jacopo, Granget, Cyrille; University of Toulouse, Pallotti, Gabriele, Kihlstedt, Maria, Watorek, Marzena, Felce, Catherine, Fon Sing, Guillaume; Université Paris Cité, Granfeldt, Jonas, Repiso, Isabel; Universität Salzburg, Ågren, Malin, Trévisiol, Pascale, Rast, Rebekah, Dimroth, Christine, Leclercq, Pascale, Kriegel, Sibylle, Benazzo, Sandra   +18 more
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Polish children's productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity [PDF]

, 2006
Polish-speaking children aged from 2;4, to 4;8 and 16 adult controls participated in a nonce-word inflection experiment testing their ability to use the genitive, dative and accusative inflections productively.
Szczerbinski, Marcin, Dabrowska, Ewa, Dabrowska, Eva   +2 more
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Factors Differentiating the Statements of Narrators: A Stylometric Analysis of Biographical Interviews

Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej, 2019
This article proposes ways to analyse the content and metadata of biographical interviews using statistical methods. The basis for this series of stylometric experiments was a specially created corpus exceeding 1.2 million lexical units in size and ...
Magdalena Kądzioła
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Triphone Statistics for Polish Language [PDF]

, 2009
The Polish text corpus was analysed to find information about phoneme statistics. We were especially interested in triphones as they are commonly used in many speech processing applications like HTK speech recogniser. An attempt to create the full list of triphones for Polish language is presented.
Bartosz Ziólko, Jakub Galka, Suresh Manandhar, Richard C. Wilson 0001, Mariusz Ziólko   +4 more
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Productivity and beyond: mastering the Polish genitive inflection [PDF]

, 2005
This study charts the development of the genitive masculine inflection, one of the most irregular parts of the Polish case-marking system. 72 Polish children aged from 2;3 to 10;8 participated in a nonce word production experiment testing their ability ...
Dabrowska, Ewa, Dabrowska, E., EWA DĄBROWSKA   +2 more
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Linguistic measures of chemical diversity and the “keywords” of molecular collections

Scientific Reports, 2018
Computerized linguistic analyses have proven of immense value in comparing and searching through large text collections (“corpora”), including those deposited on the Internet – indeed, it would nowadays be hard to imagine browsing the Web without, for ...
Michał Woźniak, Agnieszka Wołos, Urszula Modrzyk, Rafał L. Górski, Jan Winkowski, Michał Bajczyk, Sara Szymkuć, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, Maciej Eder   +8 more
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Migrant networks, language learning and tourism employment [PDF]

, 2011
This paper examines the relationship between migrants’ social networks, the processes of language acquisition and tourism employment. Data collected using netnography and interviews are used to identify the strategies that Polish workers in the UK use to
Hania Janta, Lugosi, Peter, Lorraine Brown, Janta, Hania, Ladkin, Adele, Janta, H, Brown, Lorraine, Adele Ladkin, Lugosi, P, Ladkin, A, Peter Lugosi, Brown, L   +11 more
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Polish migrant children’s transcultural lives and transnational language use [PDF]

, 2015
This paper addresses the issue of language and belonging in the transnational context of migration. It draws on two research projects with first-generation children of Polish labour migrants in Scotland. The paper examines the role that language plays in
Moskal, Marta, Sime, Daniela
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Bolesław Erzepki jako wydawca zabytków staropolskiej leksykografii – na przykładzie "Przyczynków do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego cz. 1" (1908)

LingVaria, 2018
Bolesław Erzepki as an Editor of the Old Polish Lexicographical Works, on the Example of Przyczynki do średniowiecznego słownictwa polskiego cz. 1 (1908) Glosses recorded in an incunable 78d from the the Cathedral Library in Gniezno, containing the Latin-
Magdalena Klapper
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