Accounting for asymmetries in cleft sentence use by Bianca Maria De Paolis, Cecilia Andorno, Sandra Benazzo

“…Our findings highlight a difference in how native speakers handle the functional parameter in the use of clefts, with Italian speakers (but not French speakers) distinguishing between identification and correction. The linguistic proximity between Italian and French facilitates the acquisition of this complex structure among learners. …”
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Pukka English and the Language of the Other in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India by Catherine Lanone

“…A Passage to India differs from Kipling’s luscious use of Indian words or Conrad’s creativity; while Kipling’s Kim returns to the vernacular as a mother-tongue and Conrad uses linguistic distortion as a site of ethical ambiguity, Forster strays from the systematic inclusion of alien signifiers with his text. …”
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« L’écriture inclusive, je ne connais pas très bien… mais je déteste ! »  by Tania Sauteur, Pascal Gygax, Julia Tibblin, Lucie Escasain, Sayaka Sato

“…We explore the link between attitudes towards inclusive writing and different factors, such as the level of linguistic or historical knowledge of inclusive writing. …”
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Some Similarity Measures for Triangular Fuzzy Number and Their Applications in Multiple Criteria Group Decision-Making by Liyuan Zhang, Xuanhua Xu, Li Tao

“…A methodology for multiple criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problems with triangular fuzzy information is proposed; the criteria values take the form of linguistic values, which can be converts to TFNs. According to the weighted similarity measures between each alternative and ideal alternative, it is easy to rank alternatives and select the most desirable alternative. …”
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Discourse-level structuring of information in narrative:Signalling structural, interactional and cognitive shifts by Tuija Virtanen

“…In each pair/gradient of concepts one member/pole – “theme”, “comment”, and “new” – is argued to constitute the Figure, against the (necessary) Ground of the other. The linguistic signalling of the structural, interactional and cognitive shifts in information structuring is examined in two different kinds of narratives in written French. …”
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The function of "weeping and gnashing of teeth" in Matthew's gospel by Zoltan L. Erdey, Kevin G. Smith

“…It was discovered that the phrase may have four possible functions, namely (a) a system by which Matthew hoped to make the message of the particular passage unforgettable; (b) a prophetic anticipation of an aspect of the larger shape of history; (c) a linguistic device to increase the degree of emphasis or heighten the force given to the message of eschatological judgment; and (d) a literary connector holding together a number of specific passages of Scripture. …”
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On writing about illness in Kuwait. A discussion with Shahd Al Shammari by Marion Breteau

“…This tension is all the more acute because, in Kuwait, the act of writing can undermine local authors who, like her, write in English, a linguistic choice often perceived as a threat to the country’s cultural and linguistic identity. …”
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Emergent literacy, visual literacy i czytanie dialogowe. Potencjał edukacyjny i emancypacyjny książki obrazkowej w środowisku rodzinnym i przedszkolnym by Małgorzata Cackowska

“…The article concerns contemporary perspectives on early education, early, emergent and visual literacy, and concepts of the development of cognitive, linguistic, and socio-emotional competencies by using picturebooks in the dialogic reading method. …”
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Risk Analysis of Digital Twin Project Operation Based on Improved FMEA Method by Longyu Li, Jianxin You, Tao Xu

“…To address these challenges, this study proposes an improved failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) framework by integrating double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (DHHFLTSs) and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). …”
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Analyse de la structure génétique et patronymique de la France métropolitaine (XIXe-XXe siècles) by Pierre Darlu, Pascal Chareille

“…The different patterns highlighted are closely linked to geographical proximity, but also to genetic, linguistic or dialectal variations, as well as to historical relationships with neighbouring countries.…”
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S + V + O : Ordres marqués et non marqués en italien by Sandra Augendre

“…Indeed, the opposition between a basic or unmarked form and its so-called ‘marked’ variants does not seem to fit in a more detailed analysis of linguistic use. We will consider here various types of structures (thematic, syntactic and prosodic) and describe the reasons why, for each of them, one basic form is postulated. …”
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The acceptability and validity of AI-generated psycholinguistic stimuli by Alaa Alzahrani

“…Yet, limited attention has been paid to the automatic construction of sentence stimuli. Given their linguistic capabilities, this study investigated the efficacy of ChatGPT in generating sentence stimuli and AI tools in producing auditory sentence stimuli. …”
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Equative Constructions in the Laki Language by Parisa Najafi, Seyed Najm al-din Shahrokhi, Mohammad Hosseini

“…Different linguistic constructions, including comparative, superlative, similative, and equative constructions, are employed to convey the concept of comparison. …”
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The Phenomenon of Emmanuel Macron. Book review of ‘Qu’est-ce que le macronisme?’ edited by E. Fottorino by P. G. Loginova

“…Macron, provides interesting biographical details and can be recommended for IR scholars, political scientists, journalists, and linguists since it is written in an impressive and elegant French language. …”
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On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

“…Next, examples will be presented of poetic research that examines the reiteration of seemingly asemantic linguistic elements related to a specific theme, name, or textual position, while considering how such repetitions, alongside rhythm, contribute to textual semantics. …”
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American rhapsodies revisited: figures de l'altérité et voix mêlées dans Music through the Floor (2005) d'Eric Puchner by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…In the wake of some of his famous predecessors such as Cheever or Carver who have deeply influenced his writing, Puchner gets to grips with the closely related notions of diversity, otherness and alienation which lie at the core of his characters' concerns with identity and response to their social and linguistic environment. As suggested by the title itself, music stands as the overriding metaphor for the conflicting identities, peculiarities and human relationships staged by the short stories in many different ways, just as music actually performed is a major element through which various voices can be heard. …”
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Adéquations et inadéquations du découpage territorial aux contextes politiques et économiques by Christian Vandermotten

“…The evolution towards a federal structure during the last half-century prescribes re-drawings following politico-linguistic rationales, but these ones are not taking into account Brussels metropolitan and cosmopolitan developments, even if they are at the core of the Belgian economic prosperity…”
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Research methodology of youth interpersonal communication based on modern technology by Krstić Milan, Skorup Ana, Gavrić Gordana

“….), also including some negative effects in various aspects of communication (protection of privacy, simplification of linguistic content, alienation of people, etc.). As the young population uses modern forms of communication the most, it is meaningful to organize systematic research on the subject mentioned. …”
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The interaction between relevant-set based operators and a topic–predicate dimension by Anna Szeteli, Gábor Alberti

“…Short sentences in which quantifiers functioning either as the main (new/correcting) information or as a topic (anchor of relevant information) were read by 41 non-linguist native Hungarian subjects. The pitch, intensity and duration properties were analyzed by Praat. …”
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Ukryte w języku aspekty przygotowania dzieci do szkoły by Grażyna Szyling

“…The theoretical basis for the conducted analyses is the linguistic theory also known as the Sapir- Whorf hypothesis, which is complemented by the psychological concept of cognitive schemata and their role of in the process of discovering reality. …”
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