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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"foreign words"”.
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The Map of it All: Quantitative Mapping of Foreign Language in James Joyce's Ulysses
… novel, but most do not know just how many foreign words Joyce used, altered, and inserted throughout the writing process, nor do they know the final tally in the 1922 Shakespeare & Co. edition. This dissertation approaches Joyce's foreign language from a quantitative and genetic …
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The Effects of the Delay in a Delayed Match-To-Sample Procedure on Acquisition and Transfer
… into three groups, learned to relate English words to Czech and Portuguese words in a matching-to-sample procedure. Half the word pairs were learned using English words as samples and foreign words as corresponding comparisons and the other half were learned with the foreign words serving as …
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Contextual effects of varying amounts of language-mixed text on translation and comprehension by monolinguals and bilinguals
… to 1) translate Spanish and Finnish vocabulary words and 2) comprehend inferential and factual comprehension questions based on language-mixed prose. Language-mixed (i.e., codeswitched) prose varied in the number of foreign words presented in each sentence (i.e., 0, 1, 2, or 3 words per …
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An investigation into the phenological and morphological integration of German loanwords into Oshiwambo
… like other languages in contact, has adapted foreign words from other languages to meet the needs of its daily life vocabularies and activities. This thesis is based on the hypothesis that words borrowed from other languages, especially European languages, into Oshiwambo, are phonologically …
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A lexical and morphological analysis of the vernacularization of medical vocabulary in Augsburg from 1470–1500: the creation and application of the German Medical Incunabula Corpus
… of key nouns falling into the categories of foreign words, loan words, loan translations, and loan renderings. This is followed by assorted studies measuring the amount of Latin in GeMedIC and then delves into the possible motivation behind in-text translations, intertextuality, and …
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Dynamics of prescriptivism and lexical borrowings in Contemporary French
… de la langue française are tasked to replace foreign words and expressions with French terminology that is mandatory in all government publications. However, the general public is merely encouraged to comply with these recommendations: the actual use of these top-down lexical innovations …
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A statistical study of the contributions of certain Greek and Roman mythological terms to the modern English language
<p>Many teachers of English are challenged with the question, "Why do we study these ancient myths?" The most obvious justification is the great contribution of mythology to music, literature, and other arts. However, the modern, questioning student is not entirely satisfied with this answer. A …
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Selected aspects of language contact in the case of Czech, with a particular focus on lexical borrowing and changing attitudes to the self and others
… case studies (‘Russian and Soviet loanwords and calques in the Czech lexicon since the beginning of the twentieth century’ and ‘Češi a slovenština’ [The Czechs and the Slovak language]), two publications on the critical reception of foreign vocabulary in Czech (‘The legacy and …
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Arabic Language Processing for Text Classification. Contributions to Arabic Root Extraction Techniques, Building An Arabic Corpus, and to Arabic Text Classification Techniques.
… develops a root extraction system that handles foreign Arabized words by constructing a list of about 7,000 foreign words. The outcome of the technique with best accuracy results in extracting the correct stem and root for respective words in texts, which is an enhanced rule-based method, is …
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Arabic Language Processing for Text Classification. Contributions to Arabic Root Extraction Techniques, Building An Arabic Corpus, and to Arabic Text Classification Techniques.
… develops a root extraction system that handles foreign Arabized words by constructing a list of about 7,000 foreign words. The outcome of the technique with best accuracy results in extracting the correct stem and root for respective words in texts, which is an enhanced rule-based method, is …