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The Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Our research investigated how L2 and L1 reading, L1 low‐level skills and working memory are related to ratings and the linguistic characteristics (productivity, cohesion, lexical sophistication and diversity, syntactic complexity, and accuracy) of argumentative and narrative texts. The research was conducted in Hungary with 95 secondary school
Judit Kormos, Csilla Bartha
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Zeitschrift für SprachwissenschaftThis special issue examines the question of how both formal(ist) and functional(ist) accounts or elements of theorizing can contribute to the explanation of (morpho)syntactic variation. Are formal and functional approaches really irreconcilable with each
Strobel Thomas
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Not on the edge: the syntax and pragmatics of clause-initial negation in Swedish [PDF]
, 2014 The possibility of topicalizing sentential negation is severely restricted in the Germanic V2-languages. In this paper, we show that negative preposing was more frequent and less restricted in earlier stages of Swedish: approx.
Agnes Jäger +28 more
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Sudden borders in the north: Regional resilience and nationalism in the Torne Valley during COVID‐19
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.Abstract The Torne Valley used to be described as one of the most peaceful and most integrated border areas in the world. This changed radically during the COVID‐19 pandemic when the border between Sweden and Finland precipitously became materialised through the physical installation of a border fence in 2020.
Katrina Gaber
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Atlas of the Baltic languages: plant names of Slavonic origin
Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2015 Atlas of the Baltic Languages: Plant Names of Slavonic Origin The article investigates Slavonic-derived plant names in dialects of the two surviving Baltic languages – Latvian and Lithuanian.
Ilga Jansone, Anna Stafecka
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Weak function word shift [PDF]
, 2004 The fact that object shift only affects weak pronouns in mainland Scandinavian is seen as an instance of a more general observation that can be made in all Germanic languages: weak function words tend to avoid the edges of larger prosodic domains.
Vogel, Ralf
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Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics and World Englishes
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract The world Englishes perspective, especially as expressed within Kachru's formulation of the Inner, Outer and Expanding Circles of Englishes, provides a flexible and coherent model of the historical spread of English. While the model has had a profound influence on various subfields of applied linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics ...
Andrew Moody
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Byte-based Language Identification with Deep Convolutional Networks
, 2016 We report on our system for the shared task on discriminating between similar languages (DSL 2016). The system uses only byte representations in a deep residual network (ResNet).
Bjerva, Johannes
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Main clause external constituents and the derivation of subject-initial verb Second [PDF]
, 2018 This paper discusses V3-patterns with a sentence-initial adverbial clause in Standard Dutch (StD) and West-Flemish (WF), which appear to violate the V2 restriction which normally regulates word order in these languages.
Greco, Ciro, Haegeman, Liliane
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Meaning‐Making of Mental Health and Mental Health Support Among Asylum Seekers in Reception Context
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Asylum seekers face higher mental health risks than quota and other refugee groups. In Finland, reception centres organise health and social services for asylum seekers. This study examines how asylum seekers make sense of mental health and mental health support to help improve the services.
Katariina Mankinen +6 more
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