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Children's preference for HAS and LOCATED relations: A word learning bias for noun–noun compounds [PDF]
Journal of Child Language, 2009 ABSTRACTThe present study investigates children's bias when interpreting novel noun–noun compounds (e.g.kig donka) that refer to combinations of novel objects (kig and donka). More specifically, it investigates children's understanding of modifier–head relations of the compounds and their preference for HAS or LOCATED relations (e.g. a donka that HAS a
Krott, Andrea +2 more
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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This classroom study explored the effects of vocabulary support on collocation learning and affective responses in task‐based language teaching (TBLT) among English‐as‐a‐foreign‐language (EFL) learners at a Japanese university. For this purpose, 68 EFL learners completed two interactive information‐gap tasks under either vocabulary‐support or ...
Yuichi Suzuki, Sachiko Nakamura
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Deconstructing Spanish prefixation
GlossaIn this article, I argue that Spanish has three distinct classes of prefixes according to their grammatical category: relational, adjectival and quantifier prefixes.
Antonio Fábregas
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Erlazio-atzizkia eta hitz-ordenaren aldaketa [PDF]
Fontes Linguae Vasconum, 2019 Lan honetan -ko erlazio-atzizkia duten sintagmen kokapena (izenaren aurrekoa eta izenaren ostekoa) aztertzen da ikuspuntu diakronikotik. Atzizkiaren funtzioa izenen modifikatzaileak sortzea da, adberbioetatik, leku kasua, instrumentala edo postposizioa ...
Dorota Krajewska
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Counting, Measuring And The Semantics Of Classifiers
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 This paper makes two central claims. The first is that there is an intimate and non-trivial relation between the mass/count distinction on the one hand and the measure/individuation distinction on the other: a (if not the) defining property of mass nouns
Susan Rothstein
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Sõnaliigipiiridest kollokatsioonide vaatenurgast: erikäändelised noomenadverbid
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2019 Käesolev artikkel käsitleb sünkroonsest aspektist eesti keele substantiivide ja adverbide üleminekualasse jäävaid nn noomen adverbe. Korpusleksikograafilise tarkvara Sketch Engine’i sõnavisandi funktsiooni andmetele toetudes keskendun mõnede ...
Geda Paulsen
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Sailing Through Time: Building Pacific Maritime Resilience
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Pacific Blue Shipping Partnership (PBSP), an ambitious initiative aimed at decarbonising maritime transport across Oceania. The study explores the cultural, historical and technological aspects of wind‐propelled shipping in the Pacific.
Christiaan De Beukelaer +20 more
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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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