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How Spanish speakers express norms using generic person markers
Scientific Reports, 2022 Language is one powerful vehicle for transmitting norms—a universal feature of society. In English, people use “you” generically (e.g., “You win some you lose some”) to express and interpret norms.
Cristina E. Salvador +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Interference effects from semantically similar items are well-known in studies of single word production, where the presence of semantically similar distractor words slows picture naming.
Yaling eHsiao +2 more
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First Language Attrition and Dominance: Same Same or Different?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 We explore the relationship between first language attrition and language dominance, defined here as the relative availability of each of a bilingual’s languages with respect to language processing.
Barbara Köpke, Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
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Contact-induced grammatical (non)changes? Observations of morphosyntactic structures in the Kashubian dialect in Canada [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2018 This article considers the context of language contact and discusses four typologically relevant morphosyntactic features (definite and indefinite articles, the merger of instrumental and comitative cases, and the non-pro-drop tendency) and ...
Nomachi Motoki Y.
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Pro-drop in Farsi: A Case Study of Bilingual Speakers
Különleges BánásmódThis research is meant to uncover some of the internal grammatical structure of bilingual Farsi speakers who have English as their dominant language. Bilinguals, whose mother tongue is Farsi but whose dominant language is English, are influenced by their
Foroozan Hajian, Anikó Vargáné Nagy
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, 2014 The topic of cross-linguistic differences regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been considered both in first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition.
Slabakova, Roumyana +3 more
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Number mismatch effect and processing cataphora in a pro-drop language: The case of Slovenian
, 2023 Cataphora (also known as backward anaphora) is a type of pronominals that precede their antecedents linearly. Previous research on processing cataphora has explored the idea that cataphoric pronouns trigger a forward-looking active searchfor an antecedent to establish a coreference relation similar to a filler-gap dependency between a fronted wh-phrase
Pavlič, Matic, Stepanov, Arthur
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Null Subjects in Northeast English [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents data and analysis relating to null subjects in spoken colloquial English. While English is not a „pro-drop? language (i.e.
Bailey, Laura R.
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Acquisition of Structures at Syntax-Discourse Interface: Post-Verbal Subjects in L2 English
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2023 The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate and advanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language with rich verbal morphology.
Liljana Mitkovska +2 more
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Modelling Pro-drop with the Rational Speech Acts Model [PDF]
, 2018 We extend the classic Referring Expressions Generation task by considering zero pronouns in pro-drop languages such as Chinese, modelling their use by means of the Bayesian Rational Speech Acts model.
van Deemter, C.J. +4 more
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