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The interaction of L2 and L3 levels of proficiency in third language acquisition 二、三语熟练程度在第三语言习得中的相互作用

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0019

Zuzanna Cal, Jolanta Sypiańska

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Nigerian newscasters’ English as a model of standard Nigerian English? 尼日利亚新闻播音员的英语是标准尼日利亚英语的典范?

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0022

Folajimi Oyebola, Ulrike Gut

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Self-reported communicative distance between Polish and English in formal and informal situational contexts 波兰语和英语在正式和非正式情景下的自我报告交际距离

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0020

M. Gawlik-Kobylińska

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-frontmatter4

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Wordform-specific frequency effects cause acoustic variation in zero-inflected homophones 词形特定频率效应导致零屈折同音异义词的声学变化

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0024

E. Luef, Jong-Seung Sun

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Isoglosses and language change: Evidence of the rise and loss of isoglosses from a comparison of early Greek and early English 从早期希腊语和早期英语的比较来看，等音素和语言的变化

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0018

N. Lavidas

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Morphosyntactic isoglosses in Indo-European: An introduction 印欧语的形态句法同源:导论

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0012

Artemij Keidan, L. Kulikov, N. Lavidas

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Marking of quality modifiers in 2nd-generation IE languages 第二代IE语言质量修饰语的标注

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0014

Artemij Keidan

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The lexicalization of the adjective class as an innovative feature in the Indo-European family 作为印欧语系创新特征的形容词类的词汇化

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0013

L. Alfieri

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Oblique anticausatives: A morphosyntactic isogloss in Indo-European 斜反消音词:印欧语中形态句法的一种同义性丧失

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Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI: 10.1515/psicl-2020-0015

Jóhanna Barđdal, L. Kulikov, Roland Pooth, P. A. Kerkhof

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