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Creating Welsh Language Word Embeddings [PDF]
Applied 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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Patient Experience and Perception of First Language Usage in Healthcare: The Welsh Perspective [PDF]
Journal of Patient ExperienceResearch shows that using a patient's preferred language is vital for effective healthcare communication. Consultations in a second language can lead to treatment delays and misdiagnoses.
Maisie E. Edwards MSc +6 more
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‘Dysgu Cymraeg’ (Learn Welsh) – Supporting Psychiatrists to Increase Welsh Language Skills in the Workplace [PDF]
BJPsych OpenAims: 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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Frontiers 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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Does language dominance affect cognitive performance in Bilinguals? Lifespan evidence from preschoolers through older adults on Card Sorting, Simon, and Metalinguistic Tasks [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for three tasks in an established population of fully fluent bilinguals from childhood through adulthood. Welsh-English simultaneous and early sequential bilinguals, as well as
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole +8 more
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Migration, Demography, and Minority Language Learning: A Case of Wales
Adeptus, 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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Languages, 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
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Social Media for Informal Minority Language Learning: Exploring Welsh Learners’ Practices
Journal 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
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Eesti 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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, 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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