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I convene a unit like this & am interested in locating fellow travellers. The unit is run by the department of linguistics and spans the 13 week semester and focuses on students from the...
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I am looking for studies about how child acquires a new dialect of the same language.
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Desperate need of this article
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The proposed study focuses on female linguistic styles used by university teachers. The main focus will be on stress and intonation Any useful or related articles?resources?
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Charges other than +/- and None Vibratory Movement(s)? 1) What is possibility and probability that other type of charges except positive and negative can exists? Any theoretical form of new...
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Are linguistic Style and Register strictly synonymous?
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Usually quantitative or positivistic research is considered more objective and reliable compare ti qualitative research.It is very done in physical and natural sciences, to great extent in social...
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In Chomskyan Revolution, linguists can hardly predict the next line in linguistic theorizing in America.
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I am interested in revived language such as Hawaiian, Cornish, Livonian etc., that were meant to have died out. And as such their dialect is reflected in the languages that over took them- such as...
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Anybody knows of light or heavy stemming method/s, for morphologically complex languages, using a probabilistic theory?
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They use the same term "variation", but I wonder whether they refer to the same thing. How does SFL relate variation to identity? Could you suggest materials that make the distinction or any SFL...
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My plan is using a Grounded Theory design and a semi-structured interview as instrumentation. I'm wondering if you could tell me your suggested design, method, instrumentation and participants or...
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I became interested in the language decades ago, and have used it in reading and research, as well as travel in Europe and China. With a few exceptions, linguists don't take it seriously, indeed,...
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In the second paragraph of "What is a Theory of Meaning?" Dummett writes: "I share the belief that this is the most fruitful approach to the problems within this area of philosophy, although I...
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How would you classify terms of one terminological system? For example in Saussure's terminology we can single out groups of terms describing the notion of speaking (speech, language, mutability,...
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Call for Reviewers/Editorial Members As a platform for global academic communication, the quality of journal has always an aspect attracting much of our attention. To ensure quality of our...
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What considerations make propositional models of sentence memory more attractive than linguistic models?
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How knowledge theories affirm that knowledge is the obligatory component of linguistic competence
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In several works including "Abriss der Logistik" Carnap sometimes uses 'éin' with an accent instead of 'ein'. Example from the Abriss, §2c: "Und zwar stellen Aussagefunktionen mit éinem Argument...
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The products of blending frequently become entrenched as units in conceptual structures, ready to be activated at a shot by someone who has developed them. But how exactly does blending work?
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How can we fuzzify data collected (on the scale of 1-10) from 50 people.I have not considered any linguistic scale rather i have collected the data from 50 well known people from industry? Does...
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In Basque when you say "five euros" you do not add the plural morpheme to the noun which follows the number, thus you say "bost euroØ" (i.e. five euro). In questions when you are asking the...
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