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Can you explain the difference between property and feature in terms of linguistics?
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I'mresearching Enlgish noun phrases. I want to know the difference between first use and secondary use of noun phrase, and whether the secondary use is the predicative use of noun phrase.
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I've noticed that both terms are used in a very similar way and I'm led to think that preference is given to one rather than the other on the basis of scholarly tradition.
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I am currently looking for a topic for my Bachelor thesis and I am really interessted in the interplay between language and marketing. Thus, I was wondering whether there has been research on how...
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I'm doing research on contrastive analysis. My intrest is contrastive studies of rhetorical devices between English and Chinese. I need some supportive materials like the latest books or articles....
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There exists more than one type of Mandarin tone sandhi. The most basic is the Tone 3 possibly changing to Tone 2 under certain conditions. Also, there is the half tone phenomenon. Is there some...
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When I look into the 2016 presidential candidates, the comments below every news post seem to be biased (either apparently or potentially). I try not to think these data should be discredited...
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Some measure words can be pronounced in more than one way but others are only supposed to be pronounced a single way. Take the most common one 'ge.' Ge can be pronounced ge0, ge1, or ge4 in...
01 January 2016 3,243 4 View
Such models or theories help linguists to reconstruct obsolete lexical items believed to exist in the presumed proto-language.
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'Diglossie' is a linguistic term which is applicable in didactics and sociolinguistics. The real connotation of the notion is usually argued from the point of view of the two domains of learning:...
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Colleagues, any suggestions on where I can download a Persian/Farsi monolingual corpus? I want to do keyness testing--compare actual frequencies of words in a corpus of interest against...
01 January 2016 1,522 12 View
According to Woolard (1998), the ideological representations of individuals can be determined in three particular situations: (i) language practices, (ii) explicit metalinguistic discourse, (iii)...
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Have asked in Statistical Area. Am interested in identifying probabilistic and statistic distributions of Mandarin tones [either in general or in specific corpora]. I have developed some very...
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when input is four and output two is then how to solve that problem. I have four input in left, right, front obstacle & another one is heading angle then my output is left wheel & right...
13 December 2015 8,587 3 View
We have launched a language called Arju (RU) for a deeper exploration of language and wonder what successes or problems others might have encountered or considered using the strategies and...
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Some researchers assert that language ideologies precede language attitudes, and that language ideologies are the mother of language attitudes. Even, some go further to claim that what researchers...
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lingustics, Applied language
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11 official languages but English and Afrrikaans are privileged. There is a visible divide between rural and urban schools in terms of resources. Capable language teachers shun rural...
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Thank you.
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Many disciplines have academic societies: The Royal Society, The Linguistic Society of America, Academy of Sciences of South Africa etc. Traditionally, these societies would publish a journal and...
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