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Occurrence of VOCs before and after renovation of an apartment: a case study [PDF]

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2015
Breathing is a natural need of people, but the air that we breathe is not always clean. This also applies to the air in our homes, although, many people think the opposite. Air pollution goes hand-in-hand with the current industrial period. We are more and more surrounded by materials and products on a synthetic basis and even our behaviour (smoking ...
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Young children's language socialization to kinship vocatives and some of their indexicalities in an Indo‐Fijian community

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article explores young children's language socialization to kinship vocatives and some of their indexicalities in “Dovubaravi,” a rural Indo‐Fijian community in Fiji. The investigation engaged 11 young Dovubaravi children and their extended families in qualitative ethnographic data generation across 2 years.
Alexandra Diamond
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Prepositions in Modern Greek: Accusative or genitive case? [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Prepositions are indeclinable words with limited lexical meaning that cannot stand alone but can govern one or more cases. In Modern Greek, which has four cases (nominative, genitive, accusative, and vocative), prepositions are commonly used to express a
Baćić-Ćosić Maja G., Rađenović Anka M.   +1 more
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Effectiveness of Chatbots in Improving Language Learning: A Meta‐Analysis of Comparative Studies

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 834-851, May 2025.
ABSTRACT The development of artificial intelligence has presented new opportunities and challenges for language education. Using artificial intelligence techniques such as automatic speech recognition and generative artificial intelligence, conversational chatbots have been integrated into language learning and teaching. However, findings of the impact
Boning Lyu, Chun Lai, Jianing Guo
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Constituent structure of a Tagalog text [PDF]

, 2010
This paper is an inductive look at the constituents found in a randomly selected Tagalog text, Bob Ong’s Alamat ng Gubat (Makati City, MM: Visual Print Enterprises, 2004). The analysis is based on the full text, but we will only be able to go through the
LaPolla, Randy J.
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Vocative Interjections in Address Forms in Bhojpuri: A Study of Honorifics [PDF]

, 2015
The present study examines the use of vocative interjections in the address forms and the politeness strategies that could be correlated with the sociocultural variables such as age, gender, kinship, social status, and educational achievements.
Gupta, Ganesh Kumar
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†

Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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“Allez, (mon) chou, on y va!”. Twenty years later: Revisiting the puzzle of French vocatives [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2019
The main assumption put forward in this paper is that that vocative phrases are not substantially different from noun phrases in argument positions when it comes to their internal make-up and the rules underlying their syntactic derivation.
Martine Coene*,Yves D’hulst**, Liliane Tasmowski***
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O zastosowaniach "Eksperymentalnego korpusu polsko-litewskiego" w badaniach nad polszczyzną współczesną oraz w teoretycznych polsko-litewskich badaniach konfrontatywnych

Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej, 2015
Applications of the experimental Polish-Lithuanian corpus /EkorpPL-LT/ in research on the contemporary Polish language and in theoretical Polish-Lithuanian contrastive studies The experimental Polish-Lithuanian corpus is an extended tool put into ...
Danuta Roszko, Roman Roszko
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‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 234-266, March 2025.
Abstract This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti‐suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s ...
Ana Stevenson
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