Lexical variation in English language podcasts, editorial media, and social media by Jussi Karlgren

“…Most of the recorded differences are as might be expected, reflecting known or assumed difference between spoken and written language, between dialogue and soliloquy, and between scripted formal and unscripted informal language use. …”
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The influence of the language of new media on the literacy of young people in their school assignments and in leisure by Blaženka Filipan-Žignić, Vladimir Legac, Katica Sobo

“…The authors aimed to find out whether or not students in their private language texts use the language of new media (written language with many elements of spoken language and with many abbreviations) and whether or not the students in their school assignments consistently use the standard language without the elements that they normally use in their own language in the new media. …”
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Strategy for Foreign Students’ Professional and Language Competence Development by E. S. Ionkina, O. S. Kharlamov

“…The authors propose a specific learning strategy that helps pre-graduate students to acquire oral and written language skills, produce a full monological scientific statement in Russian, get the initial skills in academic writing.Pre-Master’s training of foreign students is characterized by an individual approach to future undergraduates. …”
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The impact of L1 literacy on the production of Spanish verbal passives by school-age Spanish heritage speakers by Andrew Armstrong, Silvina Montrul, Silvina Montrul

“…However, less is known about how written language exposure impacts first language (L1) morphosyntactic growth in Spanish-speaking children in the U.S., who are educated in their second language (L2) and have little opportunities to develop L1 literacy. …”
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Beyond words: the relevance of autonomy-supportive language in university syllabi by Dora Herrera, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Aranza Lira-Delcore, Benjamín Lira Luttges

“…Results from Study 2 indicate that autonomy-supportive syllabi are related to a better perception of the course, greater BPN satisfaction, and autonomous motivation from students, increasing the probability of them choosing that subject.DiscussionIt is concluded that promoting autonomy, even through the written language shared between teachers and students, is important for improving teaching quality.…”
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Toward an Executive Origin for Acquired Phonological Dyslexia: A Case of Specific Deficit of Context-Sensitive Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion Rules by Noémie Auclair-Ouellet, Marion Fossard, Marie-Catherine St-Pierre, Joël Macoir

“…Phonological dyslexia is a written language disorder characterized by poor reading of nonwords when compared with relatively preserved ability in reading real words. …”
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Crossed Aphasia and Visuo-Spatial Neglect Following a Right Thalamic Stroke: A Case Study and Review of the Literature by Lieve De Witte, Jo Verhoeven, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Peter P. De Deyn, Peter Mariën

“…A review of these cases reveals that: (1) demographic data are consistent with the general findings for the entire group of vascular CAD, (2) the neurolinguistic findings do not support the data in the general CAD-population with regard to (a) the high prevalence of transcortical aphasia and (b) the tendency towards a copresence of an oral versus written language dissociation and a ‘mirror-image’ lesion-aphasia profile, (3) subcortical CAD is not a transient phenomenon, (4) the lesion-aphasia correlations are not congruent with the high incidence of anomalous cases in the general CAD-population, (5) neuropsychological impairments may accompany subcortical CAD.…”
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Adult L1 users’ attitudes towards their proficiency in written Estonian as evidence of deep-rooted language ideologies by Kristel Algvere

“… The purpose of this article is to investigate how adult L1 users of Estonian describe their written language proficiency and how their responses reflect language ideologies. …”
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Digitally assessing social–emotional skills in early school years: initial validation of a screening instrument by Andrea Kogler, Andrea Kogler, Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara Gasteiger-Klicpera, Katharina Prinz, Lisa Paleczek, Lisa Paleczek

“…However, there is no German instrument to help primary school students identify their strengths and weaknesses in different social–emotional skills that does not rely on written language. This paper introduces a new digital instrument, the GraSEF: Grazer Screening to assess Social–Emotional Skills, which was developed to measure (1) Behavior in Social Situations, (2) Prosocial Behavior, (3) Emotion Regulation Strategies, (4) Emotion Recognition and (5) Self-Perception of Emotions using different test formats (e.g., situational judgement test, self-assessment, performance tests). …”
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Conversational Therapy through Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well-Being in Post Stroke Aphasia by A. Giachero, M. Calati, L. Pia, L. La Vista, M. Molo, C. Rugiero, C. Fornaro, P. Marangolo

“…., oral comprehension, repetition, and written language) only in the VR group. Significant gains, after the treatment, were also found, in the VR group, in different psychological dimensions (i.e., self-esteem and emotional and mood state). …”
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Measúnú ar Ionphlandú Téarmaí Teicneolaíochta Faisnéise agus Cumarsáide sa Ghaeilge: Cur chuige corpasbhunaithe [Assessing the Implantation of ITC Terms in Irish: A corpus-based ap... by Gearóid Ó Cleircín, Jamie Murphy

“…This study differs from that because it is focused on written language rather than spoken language and on corpus evidence rather than structured interviews. …”
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Lithuanian, Russian, Polish istoriography with respect to the Poland - Lithuania union by Mečislovas Jučas

“…Its early Christianization and, consequently, written language and spiritual culture gave priority to the Eastern part of that state. …”
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VIETNAMESE PREHISTORIC MARINE CULTURES - OUTSTANDING HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL VALUES by Nguyễn Khắc Sử

“…Vietnamese prehistoric marine culture is the culture of ancient communities who had no written languages, social classes, or states. The inhabitants lived in coastal environments, exploited marine resources, had relations with broad surrounding areas, and created a bold marine culture (Nguyen, 1997, pp. 16-28). …”
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ZeST: A Zero-Resourced Speech-to-Speech Translation Approach for Unknown, Unpaired, and Untranscribed Languages by Luan Thanh Nguyen, Sakriani Sakti

“…However, existing S2ST systems face significant challenges, including the requirement for extensive parallel speech data and the limitations of known written languages. This paper proposes ZeST, a novel zero-resourced approach to speech-to-speech translation that addresses the challenges of processing unknown, unpaired, and untranscribed languages. …”
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Le mouvement étudiant et la question des langues en Algérie (1962-1965) : à propos d’un épisode méconnu de l’histoire de l’UGEMA-UNEA by Yassine Temlali

“…Occurring amid the split in the student movement over the pace and priorities of Arabisation, this evasion would have been made easier by another factor: in newly independent Algeria, the minority status of non-written languages was assumed as a matter of course, so much so that only a few intellectuals demanded their recognition. …”
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