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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]
, 2008 The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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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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, 2017 This paper describes the submission from the University of Helsinki to the shared task on cross-lingual dependency parsing at VarDial 2017. We present work on annotation projection and treebank translation that gave good results for all three target ...
Tiedemann, Jörg
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Glottalization, preaspiration and gemination in English and Scandinavian [PDF]
, 2010 Docherty et alii have "noted that several sociolinguistic accounts have shown a sharp distinction between the social trajectories for glottal replacement as opposed to glottal reinforcement, which have normally been treated by phonologists as aspects of '
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Final Rises in task-oriented and conversational dialogue [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines the distribution of utterance final pitch rises in dialogues with different task structures. More specifically, we examine map-task and topical conversation dialogues of Southern Standard British English speakers in the IViE corpus ...
Lai, Catherine
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F-pattern Analysis of Professional Imitations of "hallå" in three Swedish Dialects
, 2006 We describe preliminary results of an acoustic-phonetic study of voice imitations, which is ultimately aimed towards developing an explanatory approach to similar-sounding voices. Such voices are readily obtained by way of imitations, which were elicited by asking an adult-male, professional imitator to utter two tokens of the Swedish word “hallå” in a
Clermont, Frantz, Zetterholm, Elisabeth
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What is invariant and what is optional in the realization of a FOCUSED word? A cross-dialectal study of Swedish sentences with moving focus [PDF]
Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96, 1996 State-of-the-art speech recognition systems handle continuous speech and are speaker-independent. However, the linguistic information conveyed in the intonational contour is neglected. To be able to fully recognize speech, this information must be interpreted. To this end, explicit knowledge of dialectal and individual variation is required.
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Approaching lexical variation in Swedish Sign Language
GlossaLanguages exhibit variation, which may reflect ethnic, geographic, social or age- or gender-based differences between language users. Many sign languages are known to exhibit lexical variation, with multiple sign forms being used for the same concept ...
Carl Börstell, Pia Simper-Allen
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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]
, 2010 There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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CLUPEA HARENGUS MEMBRAS: ABOUT THE ETYMOLOGY OF A CERTAIN FISH NAME IN ESTONIAN, LATVIAN AND LIVONIAN [PDF]
, 2012 In this article, the names of Clupea harengus membras will be considered in Estonian, (Salaca) Livonian and Latvian (respectively räim, reńǵ and reņģe ‘Baltic herring’).
Udo Uibo
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