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EntropyIn a recent study, I demonstrated that large numbers of L2 (second language) speakers do not appear to influence the morphological or information-theoretic complexity of natural languages.
Alexander Koplenig
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Quantitative Approaches to Grammaticalization
Histoire Épistémologie LangageGrammaticalization may entail a variety of non-essential mechanisms, such as schematization or lexicalization. What these processes have in common is a semantic expansion of the grammaticalizing form, translated empirically into a frequency increase ...
Quentin Feltgen
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Diachronic and/or synchronic variation? The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in L2 French. [PDF]
, 2007 A majority of the early research in Second Language Acquisition focused on diachronic variation in the learners’ interlanguage (IL), that is, differences in the IL linked to a supposed increase in knowledge between two points in time (cf.
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Quantitative Measurement of Hakka Phonetic Distances
LanguagesThis study proposes a novel approach to measuring phonetic distances among six Hailu Hakka vowels ([i, e, ɨ, a, u, o]) by applying Euclidean distance-based calculations from both articulatory and acoustic perspectives.
I-Ping Wan
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Sustainable Cellulose Ionogels With Promising Physical Structure, Properties, and Applications
Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.This study presents a comprehensive overview of cellulose functional gels, focusing on their molecular network design and physical properties. The extensive potential applications of cellulose gels in flexible electronics, biomedicine, and smart engineering are explored in depth. This work provides valuable insights and guidance for future research and
Wenjuan Wang +6 more
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Linguistic Variations between Translated and Non-Translated Sports News
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised TranslationThis study quantifies the linguistic variations between translated and non-translated sports news by using thirteen lexical and syntactic indices from quantitative linguistics and corpus linguistics, with the additional aim of testing the translation ...
Xinlei Jiang
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Domestic rabbits of different body sizes differ disproportionately in the length of their tooth row or the length of their diastema. Abstract In various domestic mammals, smaller breeds tend to have proportionally larger teeth, whereas this is not a universal trend across mammals.
Ursina L. Fasciati +3 more
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Hidden communication aspects in the exponent of Zipf's law [PDF]
, 2005 This article focuses on communication systems following Zipf’s law, in a study of the rel-ationship between the properties of those communication systems and the exponent of the law.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman +4 more
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On the role of words in the network structure of texts: application to authorship attribution
, 2017 Well-established automatic analyses of texts mainly consider frequencies of linguistic units, e.g. letters, words and bigrams, while methods based on co-occurrence networks consider the structure of texts regardless of the nodes label (i.e.
Akimushkin, Camilo +2 more
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