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Quantifying graphemic variation via large text corpora 通过大型文本语料库量化文字差异

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2038

Hanna Lüschow

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Spelling variation and text alignment 拼写变体和文本对齐

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2032

Anja Voeste

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Lost in Translation – Typographic variation in loanword surrounded punctuation positions 翻译中丢失——外来词周围标点位置的排版变化

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2034

Paul Rössler

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-frontmatter2

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Revisiting German two-way prepositions 重读德语双向介词

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2029

D. Jach

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Topic drop in German: Empirical support for an information-theoretic account to a long-known omission phenomenon 德语的话题下降:对一个众所周知的遗漏现象的信息论解释的实证支持

IF 0.3 3区文学

Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2024

Lisa Schäfer

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Diversity and divergence in bilingual acquisition 双语习得中的多样性与差异性

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-04-24 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2025

Jürgen M. Meisel

{"title":"Diversity and divergence in bilingual acquisition","authors":"Jürgen M. Meisel","doi":"10.1515/zfs-2021-2025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2021-2025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Bilingual settings are perceived as exemplary cases of linguistic diversity, and they are assumed to trigger cross-linguistic interaction. The rationale underlying this assumption is the belief that when more than one language is processed in a brain, this will inevitably affect the way in which linguistic knowledge is acquired, stored and used. However, this idea stands in conflict with results obtained by research on children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. They have been demonstrated to be able to differentiate languages from early on and to develop competences qualitatively identical to those of monolinguals. These studies thus provide little evidence supporting the idea that bilingualism must lead to divergent grammatical development. The question then is what triggers alterations of bilinguals’ grammars, especially of the syntactic core, possibly resulting in non-native competences. This has been claimed to occur in the acquisition of second languages, weaker languages of simultaneous bilinguals, or heritage languages. These acquisition types differ from first language development in that onset of acquisition of one language is delayed or that the amount of exposure to one language is reduced. I will argue that age at onset and severely reduced amount of exposure are potential causal factors triggering divergent developments, whereas bilingualism on its own is not a sufficient cause of divergence.","PeriodicalId":43494,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft","volume":"40 1","pages":"65 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/zfs-2021-2025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41602031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The influence of aspect on the countability of Polish deverbal nominalizations: Evidence from an acceptability rating study 面向对波兰语名词化可接受性的影响:来自可接受性评级研究的证据

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-01-14 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2020-2014

Piotr Gulgowski, J. Błaszczak, Veranika Puhacheuskaya

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On optional wh-/focus fronting in Igbo: A SYN-SEM-PHON interaction 关于Igbo的选择性wh-/focus前沿：SYN-SEM-PHON相互作用

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2020-2017

M. Amaechi, Doreen Georgi

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2020-frontmatter3

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