14 results
Search Results
2. Galician language in Portuguese metalinguistic texts (16 th to 19 th centuries)
- Author
-
Sónia Duarte
- Subjects
galician ,portuguese ,representations of languages ,linguistic identity ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
The current paper focuses on the representation of Galician language in Portuguese metalinguistic speech from the 16th to the 19th century. Hence, this essay will work upon a corpus of selected texts from the Portuguese metalinguistic tradition of this period, embracing different textual typologies. Such corpus will be the basis to the survey of explicit references to Galician language, whose interpretation will be attempted here, especially concerning what they convey on reciprocal knowledge and the status of Galician in relation to Portuguese in the broader frame of the Iberian setting. This approach shall be undertaken observing the methodological guidelines of Linguistic Historiography and having as a fundamental reference Vázquez Corredoira (1998) monograph, but also the papers of Monteagudo (1988) and Duarte (2007), on the metagrammaticographical speech on Galician language during the outlined chronological framework.
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
3. Teaching speaking in the times of zoom: Striving to maintain a good level of oral interaction between students in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom
- Author
-
Irati De Nicolás and Ariane Sande Piñeiro
- Subjects
Teaching speaking ,Communicative skills ,Spanish as a Foreign Language ,Video Conferencing Platforms ,Oral interaction ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Computational linguistics. Natural language processing ,P98-98.5 - Abstract
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, educational institutions all over the world were forced to make the executive decision of quickly and effectively transferring face-to-face classes into an online format. Issues such as technical difficulties, varying degrees of digital literacy within a given team of teachers or the question of how to preserve the essence of face-to-face classes in an online environment are among the many challenges that have affected and hindered the practice of instructors all over the world. With a focus on the teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language (Español como Lengua Extranjera, ELE) and video-conferencing platforms such as the software known as Zoom, in this paper we discuss the importance of continuing the practice of teaching speaking in an online environment. Subsequently, we present a number of strategies that we have put into practice in our online ELE classrooms in order to try and maintain the same or very similar level of interaction between our students when compared to face-to-face classrooms.
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
4. Lenition in contemporary speech from Gran Canaria: two corpus case studies
- Author
-
Karolina Broś
- Subjects
Weakening ,Corpus phonology ,Lenition ,Spanish ,Canary Islands ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Computational linguistics. Natural language processing ,P98-98.5 - Abstract
This paper discusses the corpus of Gran Canarian Spanish gathered in 2016 in order to provide an in-depth sociolinguistic account of the lenition processes identified in the dialect. After a detailed description of the methodology and database preparation, I present two case studies showcasing the utility of such corpora. First, I show the phonetic and social factors governing the distribution of different surface variants of the underlying coda /s/, pointing to generalised variation and hence incompleteness of any of the weakening options. Second, I provide a comparison of the spontaneous speech produced by the 6 informants of the corpus with their productions from a laboratory study, which leads to the conclusion that variation is subject to yet another important factor: social setting and that the options chosen on each occasion are reflections of competing stages on the same lenition trajectory systematically applied by language users.
- Published
- 2022
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
5. Musical Aptitude and foreign language receptive pronunciation
- Author
-
Andrés Pujazón Rodríguez
- Subjects
Musical aptitude ,Pronunciation ,Field research ,Foreign Language ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Computational linguistics. Natural language processing ,P98-98.5 - Abstract
There is a growing body of literature that recognises the relationship between musical aptitude and language proficiency. Language is usually segmented into its subcategories when addressed in studies, while music is not. Due to this, it is unclear whether language proficiency is related to all music components (pitch, rhythm, etc.) in the same way. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between musical aptitude and receptive pronunciation in a foreign language, in this case, English. To achieve it, a field research study has been designed, in which participated 71 second grade 7-8-year-old students (34 boys and 37 girls) from a bilingual public school. Two tests were administered to measure their musical aptitude and their ability of discriminating phonemes. The musical test consisted of six exercises that assessed the different sub-skills of musical aptitude (pitch, loudness, duration, rhythm, timbre and tempo perception). On the other hand, the pronunciation test measured their auditory ability to differentiate phonemes in a foreign language. Our results show a positive correlation between musical aptitude and the identification of foreign language sounds.
- Published
- 2021
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
6. Por outras palavras (in other words) and digamos (so to speak): reformulation markers?
- Author
-
Ana Cristina Macário Lopes and Conceição Carapinha
- Subjects
discourse marker ,discourse relations ,reformulation ,grammaticalization ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
With this study, we aim to continue the study of the reformulative markers in European contemporary Portuguese (Lopes 2014). Two new discourse markers, por outras palavras and digamos, are syntactically, semantically and pragmatically described in this paper. The empirical data were colected from CETEMPúblico and the oral subcorpus of CRPC. Even though both discourse markers can be included in the paradigm of the reformulative ones, the study proves that digamos is not a prototypical member, given its productivity as a filler and a mitigation operator.
- Published
- 2017
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
7. Types of discourse markers in the oral and written Galician
- Author
-
Xosé Ramón Freixeiro Mato
- Subjects
discourse markers ,oral Galician ,written Galician ,organisational markers ,connectives ,reformulation markers ,discourse operators ,nteractional markers ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
The first section of the paper contains a brief introduction to discourse markers, beginning with a definition of the term, and it offers a short summary of the current state of research in relation to discourse markers in Galician, and touches on the problem of interference from Spanish; it also identifies the different types of discourse marker. The remaining sections focus on the five categories of discourse marker outlined in the introduction (organisational markers, connectives, reformulation markers, discourse operators and interactional markers together with the main functions and characteristics of each, using examples from a corpus of written and oral texts.
- Published
- 2016
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
8. Meaning and function in the anthroponimys of Majina, the first galician novel
- Author
-
Xosé Antonio Fernández-Salgado
- Subjects
literary anthroponimy ,motivation for proper names ,anthroponyms and social class ,literary language ,Galician language ,Galician novel ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
This paper examines the anthroponyms of the first modern Galician novel, Marcial Valladares’ Majina, ou a filla espúrea (1870), a text classified in the genre known as ‘folletín’. The purpose is to study the names of the novel’s characters as regards to the dualist conception that articulates its plot. After a brief overview to recent, and still scarce, studies in literary Galician anthroponymy is provided, the analysis is focused on showing there was no arbitrariness on the author’s side when choosing his character’s names. Supposed flamboyance in some of them corresponds to a social indentity mark: anthroponyms with classist implications for aristocrats, and names of Christian origin for farmers and craftspeople. Along with this, an insistance is made on the fact that, following a long literary tradition, some of the proper names may be understood to have a meaning motivated by the characters’s behaviour.
- Published
- 2016
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
9. Final unstressed mid-vowels in Brazilian Portuguese of the 19th century
- Author
-
Eliane da Rosa
- Subjects
heightening ,final unstressed mid-vowels ,brazilian portuguese of the 19th century ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
This paper investigated the Brazilian Portuguese final unstressed mid-vowels heightening based on the principles and methodologies of the Sociohistorical Linguistics (Romaine 2009) and according to the principles of the Uniformitarian Principle (Whitney 1867 / Labov 1994 / Labov 2008 / Joseph / Janda 2003). To the development of the analysis, it was used two kinds of empirical data: direct evidence (metalinguistic and didactic books) and indirect evidence (letters from Coleção Varela). The results of the analysis demonstrated that the heightening of the final unstressed vowels /e/ and /o/ occurred in Brazilian Portuguese in the 19th century.
- Published
- 2015
- Full Text
- View/download PDF
10. From Ms to Edition: Errors in the Galician Translation of 'De medicina equorum'
- Author
-
Gerardo Pérez Barcala
- Subjects
Giordano Ruffo ,Medieval veterinarian science ,Translations ,Critical edition ,Romanic languages ,PC1-5498 ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Ms. 23076 of the Spanish National Library contains a copy of the Galician version of the first Treaty on Veterinary in the Medieval Western world, Giordano Ruffo’s De medicina Equorum, which was largely spread in Latin and translated into se- veral different –mainly Romance– languages. Among the different kinds of errors that can be found in this codex, this paper focuses on some words which, though reasonable, deviate from those transmitted by the scarcely known tradition of Ruffo’s text with the aim of evaluating their difficulties and debating the pertinence or not of correcting them depending on whether the error stems from the transmission of the Galician version itself or from other versions originated in the Latin text.
- Published
- 2016
11. Compiling Specialised Comparable Corpora. Should we always trust (Semi-)automatic Compilation Tools?
- Author
-
Hernani Costa, Isabel Dúran Muñoz, Gloria Corpas Pastor, and Ruslan Mitkov
- Subjects
comparable corpora ,computational linguistics ,distributional similarity measures ,manual and semi-automatic compilation ,natural language processing ,Language and Literature ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Decisions at the outset of compiling a comparable corpus are of crucial importance for how the corpus is to be built and analysed later on. Several variables and external criteria are usually followed when building a corpus but little is been said about textual distributional similarity in this context and the quality that it brings to research. In an attempt to fulfil this gap, this paper aims at presenting a simple but efficient methodology capable of measuring a corpus internal degree of relatedness. To do so, this methodology takes advantage of both available natural language processing technology and statistical methods in a successful attempt to access the relatedness degree between documents. Our findings prove that using a list of common entities and a set of distributional similarity measures is enough not only to describe and assess the degree of relatedness between the documents in a comparable corpus, but also to rank them according to their degree of relatedness within the corpus.
- Published
- 2016
12. The intonational patterns used in Spanish yes-no questions of Hungarian speakers
- Author
-
Kata Baditzné Pálvölgyi
- Subjects
Yes-no interrogatives ,Melodic patterns ,Rise ,Rise-fall ,Negative transfer ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Computational linguistics. Natural language processing ,P98-98.5 - Abstract
The present paper offers an overview of our investigations concerning the intonation of Spanish yes-no questions by Hungarian learners of Spanish. We now focus on linguistic aspects of intonation: which melodic patterns are used by Hungarian learners of Spanish in three subcategories of yes-no interrogatives: neutral yes-no questions, incredulous echo yes-no questions and yes-no questions followed by a vocative. We analyse these subtypes as their intonation in Spanish and in Hungarian is radically different. The Spanish intonation is characterised by final rises in all these three areas, whereas in Hungarian, we can rather detect the presence of a rising-falling melody. Rise-falls are not excluded from the inventory of Spanish interrogative patterns, but their presence is relatively low, and they usually accompany marked yes-no questions. Our aim is to find out on which areas should a language teacher lay more emphasis as far as the correct intonation is concerned.
- Published
- 2014
13. Análisis contrastivo segmental: contribuciones para la elaboración de un protocolo
- Author
-
M. Carmen Férriz, M. Lourdes Perdigó, and María Jesús Pérez Sola
- Subjects
fonètica ,fonologia ,lingüística contrastiva ,interllengua ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 ,Computational linguistics. Natural language processing ,P98-98.5 - Abstract
En aquest article es presenta un protocol per a la realització de l’anàlisi contrastiva segmental, mètode d’investigació en adquisició i aprenentatge de segones llengües que permet formular hipòtesis sobre la interllengua dels aprenents. En primer lloc, s’explica el paper de la lingüística contrastiva i la importància de la competència fònica en l’aprenentatge de segones llengües. En segon lloc, es descriu un protocol que consta de quatre fases. En la primera i la segona fase, respectivament, es proposa un model per d’escriure i contrastar els sistemes fonològics de la llengua meta i de la llengua materna de l’aprenent. La tercera fase correspon a la formulació d’hipòtesis de treball derivades de l’anàlisi contrastiva i la quarta, a la verificació empírica d’aquestes hipòtesis.
- Published
- 2013
14. Editorial
- Author
-
Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões, José João Almeida, and Xavier Gómez Guinovart
- Subjects
Language and Literature ,Philology. Linguistics ,P1-1091 - Abstract
Este é o terceiro número da Linguamática e o primeiro de 2010, um número que termina o percurso da revista ao longo de um ano. Trata-se de uma edição especial com artigos seleccionados do Sétimo Simpósio Brasileiro de Tecnologia da Informação e da Linguagem Humana (STIL'09), o que demonstra o interesse da nossa comunidade científica da Linguamática. Todos os artigos deste número especial são publicados na secção dedicada aos Artigos de Investigação. Agradecemos a colaboração dos autores seleccionados e dos organizadores do STIL na elaboração deste número da Linguamática. Finalmente, queremos marcar mais uma etapa na revista celebrando a indexação da Linguamática em catálogos de bibliotecas digitais e em índices públicos de revistas electrónicas, entre os quais salientamos o Latindex — Sistema Regional de informacióon en Línea para Revistas Cientíï¬cas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal —, o DOAJ — Directory of Open Access Journals —, o Google Scholar e o The Linguist List. Alberto Simões José João Almeida Xavier Gómez Guinovart Uma visão geral dos avanços noSimpósio de Tecnologia da Informação e Linguagem Humana Esta edição especial da Linguamática contém uma seleção dos artigos apresentados no 7º Simpósio de Tecnologia da Informação e Linguagem Humana (STIL 2009), que ocorreu de 8 a 11 de setembro de 2009 na Universidade de São Paulo (campus São Carlos), Brasil (http://www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/til/stil2009_English). O STIL é o evento anual de Tecnologia da Linguagem apoiado pela Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) e pela Comissão Especial de Processamento de Linguagem Natural. Este evento tem um caráter multidisciplinar, abrangendo um amplo espectro de disciplinas relacionadas à Tecnologia da Linguagem Humana, tais como Lingüística, Ciências da Computação, Psicologia, Ciência da Informação, entre outros, e tem por objetivo reunir participantes acadêmicos e da indústria que atuam nessas áreas. Os tópicos de interesse anunciados no Call for Papers estiveram centrados em torno dos trabalhos em tecnologia da linguagem humana em geral realizados a partir de perspectivas tão diversas como Ciências da Computação, Lingüística e Ciência da Informação, incluindo entre outros a mineração de texto, processamento da linguagem escrita e falada, a terminologia, lexicologia e lexicografia, modelagem e gestão de conhecimento e geração de linguagem natural. Foram submetidos 60 artigos longos e 26 curtos. Cada proposta foi analisada por três membros do Comitê de Programa, composto por 88 pesquisadores de 13 países e 45 instituições. Após um rigoroso processo de revisão 18 artigos completos e 12 curtos foram selecionados, com taxas de aceitação de 30% e 42%, respectivamente. Os autores dos artigos completos foram convidados a submeter versões estendidas e revisadas dos seus trabalhos para esta edição especial, passando por um novo processo de revisão, desta vez pelos revisores da Linguamática, que selecionaram 7 dos artigos submetidos. Estes artigos representam uma amostra do rico e variado trabalho apresentado no STIL e envolvem pesquisadores de instituições acadêmicas e industriais no Brasil, Portugal e França. Por exemplo, o primeiro artigo, Identificação de expressões multipalavra em domínios específicos de Aline Villavicencio et al., propõe uma abordagem para a identificação de Expressões Multipalavra, tais como compostos nominais e verbos frasais, em corpora técnicos. A proposta apresentada combina medidas de associação com informações linguísticas e de alinhamentos lexicais, e o artigo examina a influência de diversos fatores sobre o seu desempenho. Os dois próximos artigos são relacionados a aplicações de PLN. Em Classificação automática de textos por período literário utilizando compressão de dados através do PPM-C, Bruno Barufaldi et al. propõem a aplicação do método Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) para a tarefa de classificação de textos de acordo com períodos literários da literatura brasileira. Já Carolina Scarton e Sandra Aluísio, em Análise da inteligibilidade de textos via ferramentas de processamento de língua natural: adaptando as métricas do Coh-Metrix para o Português, investigam a adaptação de métricas da ferramenta Coh-Metrix para o português do Brasil (Coh-Metrix-Port), primeiramente avaliando as diferenças entre textos complexos para adultos e versões mais simples para crianças e também analisando o desempenho de classificadores para discriminar textos dedicados a adultos e a crianças, que podem ser usados para avaliar a simplicidade de textos disponíveis na Web. O quarto artigo Caracterização e processamento de expressões temporais em português de Caroline Hagège, Jorge Baptista e Nuno Mamede também aborda a questão do tratamento de expressões, mas desta vez o foco é em expressões temporais tais como de manhã e nesta semana. Os autores propõem uma classificação para estas expressões do português e apresentam uma ferramenta de anotação delas em corpora. Quanto a construção de recursos linguísticos para o português, o artigo Extração de relações semânticas entre palavras a partir de um dicionário: o PAPEL e sua avaliação de Hugo Oliveira, Diana Santos e Paulo Gomes apresenta o PAPEL, um recurso lexical que contém relações entre palavras, como sinonímia, automaticamente extraídas de um dicionário através de regras, discutindo ainda uma avaliação do mesmo. Outra tarefa abordada neste volume é a de sumarização, no artigo Estratégias de seleção de conteúdo com base na CST (Cross-document Structure Theory) para sumarização automática multidocumento de Maria Jorge e Thiago Pardo. Os autores discutem a definição, formalização e avaliação de estratégias de seleção de conteúdo para sumarização automática multidocumento com base na teoria discursiva Cross-document Structure Theory. Por fim a tarefa de entendimento e linguagem natural é abordada no artigo Um analisador semântico inferencialista de sentenças em linguagem natural de Vladia Pinheiro et al, onde é descrito o Analisador Semântico Inferencialista (SIA), um raciocinador semântico sobre o conteúdo inferencial de conceitos e padrões de sentenças, avaliado em um sistema de extração de informações sobre crimes. Aline Villavicencio Horácio Saggion Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes Thiago Pardo
- Published
- 2010
Discovery Service for Jio Institute Digital Library
For full access to our library's resources, please sign in.