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Creating Welsh Language Word Embeddings [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Word embeddings are representations of words in a vector space that models semantic relationships between words by means of distance and direction. In this study, we adapted two existing methods, word2vec and fastText, to automatically learn Welsh word ...
Padraig Corcoran   +4 more
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‘Dysgu Cymraeg’ (Learn Welsh) – Supporting Psychiatrists to Increase Welsh Language Skills in the Workplace [PDF]

open access: yesBJPsych Open
Aims: The Welsh Government’s strategic framework for promoting the Welsh language in health and social care places a responsibility on providers to proactively offer services in Welsh.
Dafydd Huw   +3 more
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Migration, Demography, and Minority Language Learning: A Case of Wales

open access: yesAdeptus, 2022
The present article discusses the role of adult migrants to Wales in the country’s demographics and maintenance and promotion of the Welsh language. The Welsh society is an ageing society, predicted in the long run to rely on immigration as a solution ...
Karolina Rosiak
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The Effects of Home Language and Bilingualism on the Realization of Lexical Stress in Welsh and Welsh English

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
This study investigates effects of long-term language contact and individual linguistic experience on the realization of lexical stress correlates in Welsh and Welsh English.
Ineke Mennen   +3 more
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Social Influences on Phonological Transfer: /r/ Variation in the Repertoire of Welsh-English Bilinguals

open access: yesLanguages, 2021
It is well known that cross-linguistic interactions can exist between the two languages in a bilingual speaker’s repertoire. At the level of phonetics and phonology, this interaction may result in the transfer of a feature from one language to the other ...
Jonathan Morris
doaj   +1 more source

Social Media for Informal Minority Language Learning: Exploring Welsh Learners’ Practices

open access: yesJournal of Interactive Media in Education, 2015
Conole and Alevizou’s social media typology (Conole and Alevizou, 2010) includes amongst its ten categories: media sharing; conversational arenas and chat; social networking and blogging.
Ann Jones
doaj   +1 more source

Towards the light – tua’r goleuni: Welsh medium education for the non-Welsh speaking in south Wales: A parent's choice

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2011
The Welsh-medium education system has long been seen as an effective tool of Welsh language production in Wales. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of Welsh medium education in one south Wales Valley, ‘Cwm Rhymni / RhymniValley’.
Rhian Siân Hodges
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Wales: (Still) a Problem of Translation? Language Choice in Wales at the End of the Anglo-Welsh Era

open access: yesIperstoria, 2016
In 1996 the poet  R. S. Thomas claimed that ‘my country, Cymru, to be understood presents a problem of translation, and if it is to maintain a separate and valuable identity, it must continue to do so.’ Thomas, a native speaker of English, and a self ...
David Newbold
doaj   +1 more source

Language Report Welsh

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractIn this chapter, based on Prys et al. (2022), an update to the META-NET White Paper (Evas 2014), we present Language Technology (LT) for the Welsh language, providing an overview of the status of Welsh in Wales and a summary of the Welsh writing system and typology.
Delyth Prys, Gareth Watkins
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Présentation des hebdomadaires de langue galloise

open access: yesLa Bretagne Linguistique, 1992
This paper will provide a brief overview of the historical development of Welsh and its current situation. After an analysis of the sociolinguistic history of Welsh over the last half millennium, the cultural habits of Welsh speakers, particularly with ...
Humphrey Lloyd Humphreys
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