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Generalizing or personalizing: effects of three types of second person pronouns in service ads
Dutch Journal of Applied LinguisticsSecond person pronouns have both generalizing and personalizing functions, corresponding to their generic and deictic readings. Netherlandic Dutch distinguishes three types of address pronouns: a weak informal pronoun, a strong informal pronoun, and a ...
Helen de Hoop +3 more
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Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary How do analysts react to communication about firms' strategies? Research has shown that executive communication influences markets, but we know little about reactions to the deeper strategy content communicated. Drawing from research on how evaluative frames and expectation violations shape cognition, we show that when ...
John C. Eklund, Michael J. Mannor
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The Effects of Production Demands on Grammatical Weaknesses in Specific Language Impairment: The Case of Clitic Pronouns in Italian [PDF]
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013 Purpose Extended optional use of direct object clitic pronouns (e.g., la in Paula la vede [“Paula sees her”]) appears to be a clinical marker for specific language impairment (SLI) in Italian.
Laurence B, Leonard, Marco, Dispaldro
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Queer undergraduates describe a climate in STEM fields and classrooms that is both hostile to and silent on queer identities, leading to experiences of social exclusion, devaluation as a scientist, and discrimination. In the few studies that have specifically focused on trans and non‐binary undergraduates (i.e., students with queer genders ...
Sarah L. Eddy +8 more
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The Syntax of Dagbani personal pronouns: an analysis
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019 Cross-linguistically, personal pronouns are noted as being deficient in relation to some morphosyntactic and phonological properties. Some striking asymmetries have been identified between strong and weak personal pronouns in relation to modification ...
Abukari Kwame
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An Evaluation of Grammatical Concord in Written Assignments of Level 100 Students in a South African University [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesThis study investigates the use of grammatical concord in the written assignments of first-year students at a South African university. Using purposive sampling and Critical Discourse Analysis, selected student texts were analysed to assess proficiency ...
Ernest Kwesi Klu +1 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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(De)accenting definite descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on definite descriptions. It will be shown that a definite description refers to a given discourse referent if the descriptive content is completely deaccented.
Umbach, Carla
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2018 Background and aims Impaired production of third person accusative pronominal clitics is a signature of language impairment in French-speaking children.
Philippe Prévost +5 more
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