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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0212.v1

Auditory Pitch Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Yu Chen, Enze Tang, Hongwei Ding, Yang Zhang

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: pitch perception; autism spectrum disorder; meta-analysis

Online: 15 June 2022 (05:41:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0093.v1

Problems in Speaking Performance of Grade 8 Jade of Tagum City National High School

Genesis Genelza, Floree Jean Lapined, Sarah Jane Suarez, Merry Ann Alvez, Clarice Cabrera, Rachell Sabandal

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: anxiety; low participation; mother tongue; speaking performance

Online: 7 May 2022 (05:36:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0153.v1

A Bi-Gram Approach for an Exhaustive Arabic Triliteral Roots Lexicon

Karim Bouzoubaa, Ebtihal Mustafa

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Arabic language; Arabic roots; lexicons; phonetic system; bigram frequencies; roots weight; Artifi-cial Intelligence; NLP; Arabic NLP

Online: 18 April 2022 (04:11:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0128.v1

A Bi-Gram Approach for an Exhaustive Arabic Triliteral Roots Lexicon

Ebtihal Mustafa, Karim Bouzoubaa

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Arabic language; Arabic roots; lexicons; phonetic system; bigram frequencies; roots weight; Artificial Intelligence; NLP; Arabic NLP

Online: 13 April 2022 (13:57:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0123.v1

Phonological Awareness and Word Decoding Ability of Second Year BSED-English Students in USEP – Tagum Campus

Genesis Genelza, Samuel Babiano, Jessebelle Hilario, Donna Corpus, Manilyn Fernandez, Kirstine Allison Naig

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: phonological awareness; phonology; word decoding ability; spelling

Online: 13 April 2022 (10:16:40 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0226.v1

On Arabic Language Maintenance Among Arabs Living in Western Countries: A Review of Literature

Mohamed Elhedi Bouhdima

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Arabic; Arabs; Language Maintenance; Language Shift; Western Countries

Online: 16 March 2022 (08:28:43 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202202.0169.v1

Girls Outperform Boys in Early Syntactic Development? Negative Evidence from Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers

Nga Yui Tong, Hui Li

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: sex differences; syntactic development; Mandarin-speaking children

Online: 14 February 2022 (09:19:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0075.v1

Aspectuo-Temporal Underspecification in Anindilyakwa: Descriptive, Theoretical, Typological and Quantitative Issues

Patrick Caudal, James Bednall

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: tense, aspect, Australian languages, Anindilyakwa, null tense, underspecification, quantitative linguistics

Online: 6 January 2022 (11:35:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0066.v1

Linear Lengthening in Iwaidja: An Event-Quantifying Intonation at the Phonology to Semantics/Pragmatics Interface

Patrick Caudal, Robert Mailhammer

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Linear Lengthening Intonation; Iwaidja; Australian languages; scalarity; semantics pragmatics; discourse structure

Online: 6 December 2021 (12:09:58 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0373.v1

A Review Paper on ELT Articles Conducted on EFL Teachers’ Perceptions, Practices and Challenges towards Communicative Language Teaching

Netsanet Haymanot Belete

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: review; article; perception; practice; challenge; design; methodology; findings

Online: 22 September 2021 (10:32:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202106.0208.v1

The expressive function of the ni que insubordinate construction in Spanish

Elena Martínez Caro, Laura Alba-Juez

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: insubordinated constructions; the expressive function of language; language and emotion; ni que construction in Spanish

Online: 8 June 2021 (10:34:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0393.v1

Seeking Gender Difference in Code-Switching by Investigating Mandarin-English Child Bilingual in Singapore

Weihang Huang, Danqian Lyu, Jingping Lin

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Code-switching; Gender difference; Bilingualism

Online: 17 September 2020 (10:35:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0172.v1

Automatic Dialect Adaptation in Finnish and its Effect on Perceived Creativity

Mika Hämäläinen, Niko Partanen, Khalid Alnajjar, Jack Rueter, Thierry Poibeau

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Finnish; dialect adaptation; computational creativity

Online: 8 September 2020 (05:02:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0601.v1

Compound Words-A Cognitive Linguistic Study

Padmaja Kilambi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: deep structure and surface structure; Idealized Cognitive Model (ICM); Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG); counterintuitive compound words; usage frequency

Online: 27 August 2020 (08:42:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0095.v1

Modern Romanization of Russian Toponyms per UN Technical Reference: Phonological and Orthographic Analysis

Ivan Vladimirovich Zots

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Romanization; urbanonyms; geographical names; practical transcription; city navigation

Online: 7 June 2020 (15:05:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0398.v1

Psycholinguistic Model of Abductive Reasoning in Fiction Narrative Discourse

Inna Livytska

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: subjectivity; final interpretant; sign situation; context; abduction; inference; coda

Online: 24 May 2020 (18:59:31 CEST)

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Aim: The paper aims at defining the role of abductive reasoning in the reader’s interpretation of English fiction narrative text. Three research questions are defined as follows: (1) what is the nature of sign interpretation in its application to textual analysis? (2) what linguistic factors determine the use of abduction in the interpretation of signs? (3) how to apply abductive reasoning in the process of reading and interpretation in EFL teaching practice? Abduction is viewed here as a type of reasoning in the three-componential semiotic model of argument and as a deductive hypothesis, responsible for implicit meaning processing (Charles Peirce). Materials and Methods: The paper states the four-stage process of abduction to be a basic inquiry method of the reader on his way to fiction world interpretation. By providing a step-by-step analysis of patterns of abductive reasoning in a short story “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood, the paper conducts a textual analysis of narratives in terms of subjectivity theory of communication, reflecting the mechanisms of reader’s manipulation with information as a dynamic semiotic process of interpretation, limited by habit (final interpretant). Results: of the research of the mental operations employed by the reader while processing textual information proved a strong interrelation of reading with writing, and mental sub-processes and operations. As the empirical research shows, the process of conceptualization demands a higher level of cognitive maturity on the part of the reader/writer, as it presupposes “knowledge transforming” operations as opposed to “knowledge telling” strategy (Paltridge et. al. 2009: 20). To represent this process schematically, scholars assign the reader/interpretant the central role in the process of triadic sign interpretation, as he makes the further interpretation possible by a reference to the environment (Scheibmayer 2004: 305). The interpretant (I) and Representamen (R1) refer to the same object (O); as Representamen (R2) stands in the same relation to object, represented by Representamen (R1) and to the system (O2), where it acquires the functions of the observer (Sonnenhauser, 2008: 331). Conclusions: The conclusions coming from this research lead to the recognition of the second-level (or third level) observer as a source of subjectivity. And subjectivity, in its turn, arises from the difference in interpretation of signs recognized and established by the observer (Maturana & Varela, 1980). Thus, the process of differentiation by the observer is expected to fix the possible existence of other meanings, produced by the relations of the interpretant to the environment. This is the notion of thirdness. And, therefore, “sign situation”, plays the role of marking the pairs of differentiation in semiotic interpretation of signs. And it is this differential potential of indexical components of signs, and not their relatedness of meaning, which makes communication dynamic.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202005.0377.v1

Narrative Discourse as an Emergent Phenomenon: Global Semiotic Approach

Inna Livytska

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: narrative; meaning; emergence; subjectivity; telic aspect; global semiotics; Umwelt

Online: 23 May 2020 (16:32:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201912.0127.v1

Effective English Reading Strategies: English Language Learners’ Perceptions

Waheeb S Albiladi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: ESL Reading; ELLs; reading strategies; reading aloud; silent reading

Online: 10 December 2019 (06:45:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0380.v1

Research in TESOL: An Investigation of Trends and Types of Research over the Last Ten Years

Waheeb Albiladi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: TESOL; English teaching; ESL; EFL; teaching methodology research interests

Online: 30 November 2019 (04:41:57 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0305.v1

The Metonymic Readings of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics: A Cognitive Approach

Efthymia Tsaroucha

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: politics; political speech; economic crisis; Greece; deictics; space; time; image schemas; metonymicity

Online: 27 July 2019 (00:51:33 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0274.v1

Improving the Translation Environment for Professional Translators

Vincent Vandeghinste, Tom Vanallemeersch, Liesbeth Augustinus, Bram Bulté, Frank Van Eynde, Joris Pelemans, Lyan Verwimp, Patrick Wambacq, Geert Heyman, Marie-Francine Moens, Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin, Frieda Steurs, Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Els Lefever, Arda Tezcan, Lieve Macken, Véronique Hoste, Joke Daems, Joost Buysschaert, Sven Coppers, Jan Van den Bergh, Kris Luyten

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: computer-aided translation; machine translation; speech translation; translation memory-machine translation integration; user interface; domain-adaptation; human-computer interface

Online: 25 April 2019 (07:59:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0218.v1

Cross-Linguistic Influence in Chinese Learners of Two Foreign Languages While Studying Abroad in Spain

Wenxiao Zhao

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: cross-linguistic influence (CLI); L3 Spanish; borrowing; functional transfer; language distance

Online: 22 January 2019 (11:41:10 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0364.v1

Linguistic Missing Links: Instruction in Decrypting, Translating and Transliterating the Only Document Known to Use Both Proto-Romance Language and Proto-Italic Symbols for Its Writing System

Gerard Edward Cheshire

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Mediaeval manuscript, Vulgar Latin, Koinê Latin, proto-Italic symbols, proto-Romance, decryption, translation, transliteration, palaeography, codicology, Ischia 1444

Online: 31 December 2018 (10:10:30 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0260.v1

The Rise of English as the Language for Academic Publication: On Equity, Disadvantage and ‘Non-Nativeness’ as a Red Herring

Anna Kristina Hultgren

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: EAL disadvantage; non-nativeness as a red herring; verbal hygiene; field reorientations

Online: 21 December 2018 (11:15:50 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0505.v1

Italian Throughout Seven Centuries of Literature: Deep Language Statistics And Their Relationship With Miller’s 7∓2 Law and Short−Term Memory

Emilio Matricciani

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Italian, readability, GULPEASE, literature, statistics, characters, words, sentences, punctuation marks, short−term memory, word interval, time interval

Online: 20 November 2018 (15:32:11 CET)

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Statistics of languages are calculated by counting characters, words, sentences, word rankings. Some of these random variables are also the main “ingredients” of classical readability formulae. Revisiting the readability formula of Italian, known as GULPEASE, shows that of the two terms that determine the readability index G – the semantic index G_C, proportional to the number of characters per word, and the syntactic index G_F, proportional to the reciprocal of the number of words per sentence −, G_F is dominant because G_C is, in practice, constant for any author throughout seven centuries of Italian Literature. Each author can modulate the length of sentences more freely than he can do with the length of words, and in different ways from author to author. For any author, any couple of text variables can be modelled by a linear relationship y=mx, but with different slope m from author to author, except for the relationship between characters and words, which is unique for all. The most important relationship found in the paper is, in author’s opinion, that between the short−term memory capacity, described by Miller’s “7∓2 law”, and the word interval, a new random variable defined as the average number of words between two successive punctuation marks. The word interval can be converted into a time interval through the average reading speed. The word interval is spread in the same of Miller’s law, and the time interval is spread in the same range of short−term memory response times. The connection between the word interval (and time interval) and short−term memory appears, at least empirically, justified and natural, and should further investigated. Technical and scientific writings (papers, essays etc.) ask more to their readers. A preliminary investigation of these texts shows clear differences: words are on the average longer, the readability index G is lower, word and time intervals are longer. Future work done on ancient languages, such as Greek or Latin, could bring us a flavor of the short term−memory features of these ancient readers.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0193.v2

The Impact of Translation Equivalence on Tunisian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Word-Learnability

Kamel Boustani

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: translation equivalence (TE); translation equivalents (TEs); vocabulary knowledge; receptive vocabulary; word learnability

Online: 12 November 2018 (05:29:18 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0193.v1

The Impact of Translation Equivalence on Tunisian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Word-Learnability

Kamel Boustani

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: translation equivalence (TE); translation equivalents (TEs); vocabulary knowledge; receptive vocabulary; word learnability

Online: 8 November 2018 (09:48:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0272.v1

Exaptation, Refunctionalisation, Decapitalisation – BE + Past Participle with Intransitive Verbs in Mediaeval and Early Modern Spanish

Rolf Kailuweit

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: past participle construction, auxiliaries, resultatives, exaptation, refunctionalisation, capitalisation

Online: 12 October 2018 (14:40:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0303.v1

The Effectiveness of Hymesˊ Ethnography of Communication Theory to Teach English Learnersˊ Reading Comprehension Ability: A Discoursal Approach

Parisa Farrokh, Reza Ebrahimi

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: Discourse; Sociolinguistics; Ethnography of Communication; Hymes’ Model

Online: 17 September 2018 (11:12:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0178.v1

Orthographic Lexicography and Its Aspects in Online Dictionary Portals

Tomislav Stojanov

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: orthographic lexicography; European Dictionary Portal; metalexicography

Online: 10 September 2018 (15:43:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0585.v1

Orthographies in Grammar Books – Rationalism and Enlightenment

Tomislav Stojanov

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: orthography, grammaticography, punctuation, language norm, literacy, rationalism, enlightenment

Online: 30 July 2018 (11:45:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0565.v1

Orthographies in Grammar Books –Antiquity and Humanism

Tomislav Stojanov

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: orthography; grammaticography; punctuation; antiquity; humanism

Online: 30 July 2018 (08:10:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0564.v1

Orthographic Literacy as Methodological Guideline for Orthographic Standardization

Tomislav Stojanov

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: orthographic literacy; questionnaire research; Croatian orthography; (de)standardisation

Online: 30 July 2018 (08:05:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0349.v1

A Reflection on Development of Indigenous Languages for Knowledge Creation and Sharing in a Globalising World: A Case of Esan Language, Nigeria

Gabriel Aine Obinyan, Mabel Ejoghoye Aziegbe

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: humanity; culture; development and language; globalization; indigenous capabilities; knowledge creation and technological development

Online: 19 July 2018 (06:34:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0270.v1

An Exploration of the Sub-Register of Chemical Engineering Research Papers Published in English

Myrto-Panagiota Zacharof, Anna Charalambidou

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: chemical engineering; journal publications; lexical choices; collocations; impact factor; training

Online: 30 March 2018 (11:25:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0058.v1

Interactive Hesitation Synthesis and Its Evaluation

Simon Betz, Birte Carlmeyer, Petra Wagner, Britta Wrede

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: speech synthesis; evaluation; hesitation; virtual agents; interaction

Online: 11 December 2017 (07:03:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0180.v1

The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More Than 1000 Languages

Christian Bentz, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Michael Cysouw, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Subject: Arts & Humanities, Linguistics Keywords: natural language, unigram entropy, entropy rate, learnability, expressivity

Online: 27 April 2017 (15:54:13 CEST)

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