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Laryngeal stop systems in contact: connecting present-day acquisition findings and historical contact hypotheses [PDF]

, 2011
This article examines the linguistic forces at work in present-day second language and bilingual acquisition of laryngeal contrasts, and to what extent these can give us insight into the origin of laryngeal systems of Germanic voicing languages like ...
Simon, Ellen
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Teaching Situational Grammar Items Effectively

Armenian Folia Anglistika, 2015
Traditional Foreign language curricula at Armenian schools have mainly focused on the grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation of the target language. The disparity between the gained knowledge of a foreign language and university classes aimed at enhancing
Susanna Baghdasaryan
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On the Dynamism of Paintings Through the Distribution of Edge Directions

Journal of Imaging
The digitization of artworks has recently offered new computational perspectives on the study of art history. While much of the focus has been on classifying styles or identifying objects, the analysis of more abstract concepts, such as the perception of
Adrien Deliege, Maria Giulia Dondero, Enzo D’Armenio   +2 more
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Le marqueur discursif bon : ses fonctions et sa position dans le français parlé [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2020
À travers l’examen de 227 occurrences du marqueur discursif bon dans un corpus de français parlé, cette étude présente une nouvelle vue d’ensemble de ses fonctions pragmatiques. Nous proposons que bon est essentiellement un marqueur de réorientation et d’
Peltier Joy P. G., Ranson Diana L.
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Traces of Proust in Michel Tremblay [PDF]

Slovo a Smysl
At first glance, Marcel Proust’s aristocratic spirit and ambiance are entirely dissimilar to the plebeian milieu of the Quebec playwright and prose writer Michel Tremblay, whose poetics involve raising the joual slang of the Montreal suburbs to the tones
Petr Kyloušek
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Strengthening Writing Voices and Identities: Creative Writing, Digital Tools and Artmaking for Spanish Heritage Courses

Languages, 2021
This paper presents an analysis of poems, digital art, and accompanying analytical essays authored by four college students taking an advanced Spanish as heritage language.
María Luisa Parra
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Review of Intonation in Romance, by Sónia Frota and Pilar Prieto (Eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press [PDF]

, 2018
The edited volume, Intonation in Romance, comprises eleven chapters: nine content chapters summarise the results of detailed prosodic analysis of intonation patterns across varieties of a particular Romance language, and are framed by an introduction and
Hellmuth, Sam
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Oswaldo Costa, Antropofagia, y la crítica caníbal de la modernidad colonial

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2015
Oswaldo Costa was a key member of the Brazilian modernist Antropofagia (Anthropophagy) movement of the late 1920s, yet he has been largely forgotten by critics and marginalized from national cultural history.
Carlos A. Jáuregui
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Tauromaquia en traducción: Motivación fraseológica y estrategias traductológicas (español-checo) [PDF]

Linguistica Pragensia, 2016
This paper studies, from a cognitive perspective, the translation into Czech of 225 Spanish Phraseological Units (PhU) with their origins in the Spanish bullfighting culture.
Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio
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Issues on topics [PDF]

, 2000
The present volume contains papers that bear mainly on issues concerning the topic concept. This concept is of course very broad and diverse. Also, different views are expressed in this volume.
Gasde, Dieter, Meinunger, Andre, Schwabe, Kerstin   +2 more
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