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Cognitive Systematicity of Semantic Change: Cross-Linguistic Evidence
... competence cross-linguistically may generate individually and ...future cross-linguistic studies in this field can sustain and enhance the validity of the assumptions and the analyses presented in ...
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Investigating the cross linguistic potential of VerbNet style classification
... The development of an automatic verb classifi- cation approach requires at least an initial gold standard. Some syntactic (Gross, 1975) and se- mantic (Vossen, 1998) verb classifications exist for French, along with ones ...
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Cross Linguistic Name Matching in English and Arabic
... Arabic ـﺠ can be realized, as either [j] or [g], and one of the reflexes in English for Arabic ﻕ can be [g] as well. How do we differentiate the one from the other? Quite simply, the Arabic input is not random data. ...
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Cross linguistic differences and similarities in image descriptions
... 3. Iconology: interpreting the image, establishing its cultural and intellectual significance. This hierarchy is useful to think about for descrip- tions of images (Hodosh et al., 2013). As Panofsky (1939) notes, these ...
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Logography and layering: a functional cross-linguistic analysis
... broad cross-linguistic overview of the theory presented, but much further research is needed, particularly in its application to texts in individual ...
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Universal Stanford dependencies: A cross linguistic typology
... The Stanford Dependencies (SD) representation (de Mar- neffe et al., 2006) was originally developed as a practical representation of English syntax, aimed at natural language understanding (NLU) applications. However, it ...
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The Degree Semantics Parameter and cross-linguistic variation
... for cross-linguistic research in semantics whereby the starting point is a null hypothesis of no variation, followed by rigorous testing in par- ticular ...of cross-linguistic variation may be ...
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An Overview of Cross-linguistic Influence in Language Learning
... revolutionary linguistic theory of the last few decades within the cognitive framework was that of universal grammar introduced by Chomsky (1965, as cited in Isurin, ...theory, cross-linguistic ...
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Using Universal Dependencies in cross linguistic complexity research
... Our validity metric shows that closely related languages which should yield minimally divergent results can, in fact, diverge considerably. However, this effect can be diminished by using parallel treebanks and ...
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The Organization of Lexicons: a Cross Linguistic Analysis of Monosyllabic Words
... In Study 2, English and Mandarin were used as languages for a preliminary cross-linguistic in- vestigation. The same LDC Mandarin Lexicon from Study 1 was used for Mandarin and the CMU Dictionary (Weide, ...
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The Semantics of Clause Linking: a cross-linguistic typology
... Tbis series focuses on aspects of language that ace of current theoretical interest and for which there has not previously or recently been any full-scale cross linguistic study. Its books are for typologists. ...
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Towards robust cross linguistic comparisons of phonological networks
... These studies highlight some important method- ological issues that need to be resolved if we hope to use network analysis as a tool for cross-linguistic studies. In order to make meaningful compar- isons ...
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Cross-Linguistic Transfer Revisited: The Case of English and Persian
... for cross-linguistic transfer in a partial English immersion and non-immersion educational ...apparent cross-linguistic transfer between English reading achievement and Persian cognitive ...
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Methodological Issues in Cross Linguistic and Multilingual Advertising Research
... positive endpoint label is needed for a 5-point Likert scale in a survey conducted in English and French (see Table 3): (1) formulate several English and French endpoint labels; (2) look up the number of verbatim search ...
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Cross-linguistic variation in modality systems: The role of mood
... The goal of this paper was to extend the formal cross-linguistic study of modality to the related domain of mood. Prior work on St’át’imcets has proposed that languages vary in whether their modals encode ...
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Cross linguistic Projection of Role Semantic Information
... A number of recent studies exploit parallel cor- pora for cross-linguistic knowledge induction. In this paradigm, annotations for resource-rich lan- guages like English are projected onto another lan- guage ...
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Linking discourse modes and situation entity types in a cross linguistic corpus study
... tailed cross-linguistic study of SE types, aiming to understand both the differences in their linguis- tic characteristics across languages (Section ...other cross-linguistically (Section ...
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Cross linguistic influence in the writing of an Italian learner of English as a foreign language: An exploratory study
... explore and/or discuss with the learner, the possible reasons for instances of transfer to occur. As Grabrys-Barker (2006) suggests, there are several factors that might determine the appearance of transfer. For ...
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Pragmatic expressions in cross-linguistic perspective
... a cross-linguistic perspective to investigate pragmatic expressions in the use of a foreign language, we find a number of different explanations offered for the patterns ...
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Cross-Linguistic Regularities in Babbling
... utterances. When infants reduplicate, they prefer to do so at the end of the utterance. This is the case for both trisyllabic utterances and utterances consisting of four syllables. From a cross linguistic ...
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