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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Syntactic variation"”.
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
This dissertation presents a variationist analysis of syntactic variation and change in modern spoken Afrikaans. The Afrikaans language community is heterogeneous, and can be divided into different communication communities according to patterns of segregated residential settlement and limited …
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Context-dependent type-level models for unsupervised morpho-syntactic induction
… on a range of languages that exhibit substantial syntactic variation. In our morphological segmentation model, we exploit the fact that axes are correlated within a word and between adjacent words. We surpass previous unsupervised segmentation systems on the Modern Standard Arabic Treebank data …
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A Composite Syntactic-Semantic Interpretable Text Entailment Approach Exploring Commonsense Knowledge Graphs
… scenarios, which can range from a simple syntactic variation to more complex semantic relationships between sentences. However, most approaches try a one-size-fits-all solution that usually favors some scenario to the detriment of another. The commonsense world knowledge necessary to …
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Black South African English in relation to other second-language Englishes of Africa
… dissertation is a systematic comparison of the syntactic structure of varieties of sub-Saharan L2 English, taking as a basis Black South African English as a point of comparison. The syntactic structures of these varieties are examined in order to determine the nature and extent of the …
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El uso de pronombres personales en la oralidad mexicoamericana de Houston, Texas
This study examined the +/- presence of Spanish subject personal pronouns (yo, él/ella, nosotros/nosotras, and ellos/ellas) in sociolinguistic interviews of 36 Mexican-Americans from Houston, Texas (16 of 2nd generation and 20 of 3rd generation), and 20 Mexicans (control group) from Heroica …