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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 eMattos +3 more
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Contrastive analysis of word-formation processes of derivation and inflection in English and Serbian [PDF]
Reči (Beograd), 2022 Language as the primary means of communication has been developing for centuries. Each unit within a language, starting from sounds, words, phrases, and sentences, has been changed and harmonized with norms, reforms, and modern linguistic theories ...
Kukić Marko E.
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Some notes on the Semerap dialect of Kerinci and its historical development
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021 This article investigates the historical development of a hitherto undescribed Kerinci variety, the Semerap dialect, from a comparative Malayic perspective.
Ernanda
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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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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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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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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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Some word order biases from limited brain resources: A mathematical approach [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper, we propose a mathematical framework for studying word order optimization. The framework relies on the well-known positive correlation between cognitive cost and the Euclidean distance between the elements (e.g.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon
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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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