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Tracking Semantic Change in Cognate Sets for English and Romance Languages [PDF]

Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change, 2021
Semantic divergence in related languages is a key concern of historical linguistics. We cross-linguistically investigate the semantic divergence of cognate pairs in English and Romance languages, by means of word embeddings.
Ana Sabina Uban, Alina Cristea, Anca Dinu, Liviu P. Dinu, Simona Georgescu, Laurentiu Zoicas   +5 more
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Frequency effects in acquisition and processing of complex verbal constructions in Romance: Experimental and corpus perspectives on Spanish as well as potential implications for foreign language acquisition

Ampersand
This article investigates the effects frequency of usage may have on the acquisition and processing of complex verbal constructions in Romance. Based on a constructivist view of language and language learning, the study combines data from a reading ...
Birgit Füreder
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A New Latin Treebank for Universal Dependencies: Charters between Ancient Latin and Romance Languages

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2020
Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Timo Korkiakangas, Marco Passarotti   +2 more
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Phonaesthetics and personality—Why we do not only prefer Romance languages

Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2023
Introduction Previous aesthetic research has set its main focus on visual and auditory, primarily music, stimuli with only a handful of studies exploring the aesthetic potential of linguistic stimuli.
Anna Winkler, Vita V. Kogan, S. Reiterer
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Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

Languages, 2021
This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes.
Irene Caloi, Jacopo Torregrossa
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages

Languages, 2022
This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M. Espinal, Ares Llop
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On the presence and absence of definite articles with anthroponyms in rural varieties of Madeiran Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2023
European Portuguese (EP) generally manifests a systematic use of the definite article with anthroponyms in communicative immediacy (in the sense of Koch & Oesterreicher, 1986). In Brazilian Portuguese (BP), there is a well-documented variation in the
Yoselin Henriques Pestana
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Topicalization in the Romance Languages

, 2021
Topic and topicalization are key notions to understand processes of syntactic and prosodic readjustments in Romance. More specifically, topicalization refers to the syntactic mechanisms and constructions available in a language to mark an expression as ...
Silvio Cruschina
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Waste, Exclusion, and the Responsibility of the Rich: A Franciscan Critique of Early Capitalist Europe

Religions, 2022
Francisco de Osuna’s Fifth Spiritual Alphabet of 1542, subtitled Consolation for the Poor and Warning for the Rich, is a Spanish text on economic inequality in Western Europe.
Dana Bultman
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Teacher and SHL Student Beliefs about Oral Corrective Feedback: Unmasking Its Underlying Values and Beliefs

Languages, 2022
This study provides a critical discussion on oral corrective feedback (CF) in the Spanish heritage language context by analyzing the language ideologies of both teachers and students relating to this everyday pedagogical practice.
Sergio Loza
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