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Aspects of Multilingualism in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus [PDF]
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: PhilologicaWhen examining the topic of multilingualism, Nigeria emerges as a captivating subject due to its renowned linguistic diversity. Authors who have a bicultural background encompassing African and Europeanlanguage cultures consistently exhibited a type of
Edit Fazakas
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Towards an Alternative Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Interjections [PDF]
, 2009 The current relevance-theoretic approach to interjections (Wharton 2000, 2001, 2003) analyses these as procedural elements that contribute to the recovery of the higher-level explicatures of utterances.
Padilla Cruz, Manuel
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The syntactic features and emotional impact of Xitsonga interjections
LiteratorThe syntactic features and emotional impacts of interjections in Xitsonga have been largely overlooked in existing literature. This article aims to close this gap by exploring these aspects.
Respect Mlambo, Madala C. Hlungwani
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Questions and responses in Lao [PDF]
, 2010 This paper surveys the structure of questions and their responses in Lao, a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia. Data are from video-recordings of naturally occurring conversation in Vientiane, Laos.
Enfield, N.
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Introducing a corpus of conversational stories. Construction and annotation of the Narrative Corpus [PDF]
, 2012 Although widely seen as critical both in terms of its frequency and its social significance as a prime means of encoding and perpetuating moral stance and configuring self and identity, conversational narrative has received little attention in corpus ...
O'Donnell, Matthew Brook +1 more
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Defining the indefinable? Interjections [PDF]
, 2010 Interjections are usually defined as an anomalous grammatical class in most levels of analysis. This paper presents an alternative account of interjections within the frameworks of prototype theory, on the one hand, and grammaticalization, on the ...
Cuenca, Maria Josep
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) offers a promising solution by replicating the native tendon microenvironment and promoting regeneration. This review highlights advances in the decellularization methods, as well as their integration with emerging technologies and translational progress in tendon tissue engineering.
Kumaresan Sakthiabirami +4 more
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Comparing non-verbal vocalisations in conversational speech corpora [PDF]
, 2012 Conversations do not only consist of spoken words but they also consist of non-verbal vocalisations. Since there is no standard to define and to classify (possible) non-speech sounds the annotations for these vocalisations differ very much for various ...
Trouvain, Jürgen, Truong, Khiet P.
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Percutaneous prosthetic venous valves are fabricated by embedding stents in an electrospun matrix that extends luminally to form leaflets. The design shields leaflets from hyperplastic cells, isolates struts from blood contact, and avoids discrete anchoring points.
Dario Arcuti +6 more
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