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The linguistic roots of natural pedagogy [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Natural pedagogy is a human-specific capacity that allows us to acquire cultural information from communication even before the emergence of the first words, encompassing three core elements: (i) a sensitivity to ostensive signals like eye contact that indicate to infants that they are being addressed through communication, (ii) a subsequent ...
Otávio Mattos +3 more
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The roots of linguistic organization in a new language [PDF]
Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 2008 It is possible for a language to emerge with no direct linguistic history or outside linguistic influence. Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL) arose about 70 years ago in a small, insular community with a high incidence of profound prelingual neurosensory deafness.
Mark Aronoff +3 more
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Verbs in Hindi: A semantico-syntactic classification
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language has the vocabulary of mostly tatsam (borrowed from Sanskrit and kept intact) and tadbhav (derived from Sanskrit and modified) words.
Richa Richa
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Nasal verbalization of the Kanayatn Dayak Language
Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 This research aims to study the feature of nasals in the Kanayatn Dayak language, spoken in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, and whether they are replacive or additive to particular initial phonemes of the root.
Eusabinus Bunau
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Glossa, 2021 This work takes the variation in syntactic configurations that precipitation verbs display in non-metaphorical contexts in English, French, and Spanish as a case study to examine more general questions about the notions of argument and argumenthood, and ...
Yadira Álvarez-López
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Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 In the XX century, different studies on the Turkmen literary language were published. Along with the studies on the Turkmen literary language, decisions were taken at different times to make its spelling rules permanent.
TAHİR AŞİROV , SİNAN DİNÇ
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Geographical Roots of the Coevolution of Cultural and Linguistic Traits [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 This research explores the geographical origins of the coevolution of cultural and linguistic traits. It establishes the existence of common roots for: (i) the presence of sex-based grammatical gender and the prevalence of gender bias, (ii) the existence of politeness distinctions and power distance, and (iii) the structure of the future tense and long-
Assaf Sarid +4 more
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Hedging modal adverbs in Slovenian academic discourse
Slovenščina 2.0: Empirične, aplikativne in interdisciplinarne raziskave, 2021 This paper first presents a comparative analysis of modal adverbs in doctoral theses in the humanities and social sciences on the one hand, and in natural and technical sciences on the other from the 1.7-billion-token corpus of Slovenian academic texts ...
Jakob Lenardič, Darja Fišer
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Evidentiality and other types readjusted: Interpersonal modality revisited
Journal of World Languages, 2021 Interpersonal modality, bifurcating modalization and modulation, is an important construct of interpersonal meaning in the architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics.
Zhou Jiangping
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Reflexes of the Most Ancient Root *er “Male” in Eurasian Languages
, 2021 The study was performed in the framework of Nostratic, which is defined as a branch of comparative historical linguistics that postulates a distant genetic relationship between the language families of Eurasia and North Africa.
K. Zulpukarov +5 more
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