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Multiword Discourse Markers Across Languages: A Linguistic and Computational Perspective
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic expressions that convey different semantic and pragmatic values, managing and organizing the structure of spoken and written discourses. They can be either single‐word or multiword expressions (MWE), made up of conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositional phrases.
Elena‐Simona Apostol +9 more
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Tones in the South Slavic languages
Slavic and Balkan Linguistics, 2019 The aim of the article is to present basic (albeit not exhaustive) data on the tonal accent in the modern Western South Slavic languages in synchronic and diachronic perspective, with the main focus on Štokavian/Čakavian/Kajkavian and New Štokavian in particular.
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Ukrainian-Croatian Parallels on the Maps of the Slavic Linguistic Atlas
Hrvatski Dijalektološki Zbornik, 2009 A need to study possible connections between the Ukrainian and Croatian continua is brought about not only by the genetic relationship between these languages but also by discussions about an eastern Slavic element in the southern Slavic glottogenesis ...
Pavlo Yu. Hrytsenko
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Editorial TEACHING Slavic Languages
DiSlawWe are pleased to present the sixth issue of DiSlaw magazine, which this time is dedicated to ‘Teaching Slavic Languages’. After decades of learner orientation or learner-centredness and related concepts such as individualisation or learner autonomy ...
Michaela Winkler +2 more
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Radishchev’s “Bova” and Its Place in the History of Russian Folkloric Stylization
Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2020 Aleksandr Radishchev (1749–1802) has long been recognized for the boldness and originality of his writings. The present essay examines a substantial but largely forgotten poetic work (“Bova”), focusing on its experimental metrics.
Michael Wachtel
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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]
, 2010 Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2006 This article explores the debate on »black Americans« among Leftists in the Weimar Republic in the framework of their broader anti-imperialist critique of capitalist modernity.
Gesa Frömming
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(Un)markedness of trills : the case of Slavic r-palatalisation [PDF]
, 2010 This paper evaluates trills [r] and their palatalized counterparts [rj] from the point of view of markedness. It is argued that [r]s are unmarked sounds in comparison to [rj]s which follows from the examination of the following parameters: (a) frequency ...
Zygis, Marzena
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract We investigate what is learned from exposure to usage in verbal morphology using an error correction mechanism within an associative learning framework. We computationally simulated how second language (L2) learners would respond to naturalistic input of aspectual usage, characterized by “imperfect contingencies,” given two types of ...
Justyna Mackiewicz +2 more
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