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How (or based on what) can we tell that something in a language has become a linguistic or discourse-pragmatic phenomenon (e.g. discourse marker)?
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Tom Wolfe’s 2016 article in Harper’s, The Origins of Speech, mentions Chomsky's idea of a language organ as explaining the emergence of language. Are there arguments based on principle,...
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Dear Colleagues, I am wondering whether it is possible to come up with a VERY simplified (yet reasonable) classification of the world's languages based on linguistic distance. Such a...
27 September 2017 5,268 11 View
Dear Research Colleagues, Are you familiar with studies on language acquisition in early simultaneous trilingual children that show whether there are any delays in their language development? I am...
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Language assessment
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What kind of insights does stylistics sustain in a communication between critics and linguists?
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Is it like you provide a certain score to the different answers expected for each sentence fragment and then calculate the score later based on the response given by the participants. Please...
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Hi! I have small samples of scores (n= 9 for one group and n=4 for the other group) and I am working with means. In order to be more precise, I would like to use the standard deviation measure....
27 July 2017 5,447 17 View
I am currently doing my MA dissertation and required to code my data, but I don't have other coders to ensure interrater reliability (due to time constraints). As Mackey and Gass (2005) suggest, I...
07 July 2017 1,812 13 View
Above mentioned statement, I find in one published journal paper. But, I am not sure that meaning of sentence and value of p
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Generally, Poetry is the expression of feelings. while expressing feelings, is it necessary to experience and express it through prosody? what about free verse?
07 July 2017 3,969 14 View
I want clarification to the above questions as it has been argued that any corpus linguistic study at least adopts one of these approaches.
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I would like to find out if German speakers of English tend to use the /w/ sound too often (e.g. in words like victim, valley or Vienna) if they try to avoid pronouncing /w/ as /v/ which is a...
18 June 2017 5,454 2 View
Hi, I am looking for references concerned with language transfer or interference from foreign language to mother tongue. We would like to test how sensitive are Croatian speakers fluent in German...
14 June 2017 2,543 17 View
I have a background in TESOL, and currently doing a project in linguistics. I'm trying to look for theories with a linguistic focus, and I came across Dornyei's second language motivational self...
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there seems to be certain definite similarities in certain words and the logic in which hindi and mandarin flow. besides the tongue moves similarly too in some cases. so may be hindi speakers have...
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I think I know it as long as I don't have to provide a definition. Despite a hard attempt, I have not found a definition in linguistic literature either.
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What do we need parallel corpora for ? Especially if we are humanists or linguists doing work or research ?
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