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BackgroundAimsMethods and procedureResultsConclusionsDescription tasks are used to evaluate and investigate the production abilities of people with language impairments such as aphasia.The goal of the present study is to investigate the production abilities of Catalan-speaking individuals with aphasia (IWA), as well as a smaller sample of individuals with cognitive impairment (IWCI), in comparison with those of healthy controls. A second goal is to evaluate whether the scoring system of the Catalan version of the CAT (CAT-CAT) is helpful to discriminate different patterns of language impairment.In the study, 109 control subjects, 20 IWA and 4 IWCI were asked to orally describe a picture from the CAT-CAT. The scoring method consisted in a closed-rating system that evaluates productivity, discourse efficiency, fluency, grammatical complexity and grammaticality.The results show that the overall scores of the control subjects were significantly higher than those of the experimental groups; the difference between the two experimental groups was not significant. Yet, the group of IWA showed greater intersubject variability than the group of IWCI. Also, the IWA were consistently worse in fluency, grammaticality and grammatical complexity than the IWCI, which indicated a different pattern of performance between the two groups.Our findings therefore show that the oral picture description of the CAT-CAT is sensitive to the language impairment of subjects with aphasia and cognitive impairment. Moreover, the rating system put forward allows us to uncover different patterns of language impairment, since it includes variables to evaluate separately content and discourse efficiency on the one hand, and grammatical features on the other hand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This meta-research focuses on articles published in Catalan by scientific journals based in the territories where that language is used (12) that use blind peer evaluation systems and are indexed in bibliographic reference databases. A mixed methodology has been used (scoping review and management questionnaires), analyzing the entire production of these publications, just over 2,500 articles, in the period 2011-2023, to first determine the language used. Regarding the texts published in Catalan (417), the methodology used in each article was analyzed to determine the most common techniques; also its evolution over the years. It concludes by pointing out certain shortcomings, both in specific topics and in lines of research, and point some proposals for the future. Also the consequences generated by the non-use of vernacular languages in the publication of scientific articles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present research examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of two demographically distinct neighborhoods in Barcelona: Vila de Gràcia and El Barri Gòtic. The aim of this study is to analyze how language choice among Catalan, Castilian, and English indexes collective and individual aspects of identity in written messages on public walls. All transgressive artifacts in both communities were documented, and the language(s) and theme of each message were systematically coded. A qualitative content analysis complemented this quantitative coding scheme. While the Catalan-dominant Vila de Gràcia had a significantly higher representation of Catalan in its LL, the thematic repertoire of Catalan artifacts between the two neighborhoods was largely similar. Castilian and English artifacts showed thematic representation patterns that were distinct from Catalan, but parallel to each other. Language-theme relationships in the data indicate that Catalan is more prevalent in messages pertaining to society or community, whereas Castilian and English are preferred for intimate themes of a sentimental or rebellious nature. The LL data shed light on the evolution of language ideologies in the tense socio-political climate of Barcelona in the years following Catalonia's controversial 2017 independence referendum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El trabajo ofrece por primera vez un Repertorio temático-cronológico de pliegos poéticos en catalán de los siglos XV y XVI. El corpus, de 128 ítems, incluye tanto pliegos preservados hasta nuestros días como aquellos actualmente desconocidos y de los que tenemos noticia por los catálogos de Hernando Colón y por otros inventarios de la época. La ordenación de los registros atiende a criterios temáticos y cronológicos. Cada entrada incluye una descripción básica del pliego, localización de ejemplares y referencias bibliográficas esenciales. Cuando es posible, se ofrece el enlace a su digitalización pública o su referencia facsimilar.

Cameron et al. (2010) and Fruehwald & Gorman (2011) present the pattern of homorganic consonant cluster reduction in Catalan as a challenge to Baković’s (2005) theory of antigemination, which predicts that any feature ignored in the determination of consonant identity for the purposes of antigemination in a given language must independently assimilate in that language. I argue that the pattern in Catalan is not a counterexample to this prediction if the reduction process is analyzed as coalescence, following Wheeler (2005), rather than as deletion.

La Colección de vocablos y modismos incorrectos y viciosos usados por los catalanes cuando hablan el castellano, de Joaquín Casanovas y Ferrán, que contó con dos ediciones (1883 y 1884), se incluye en los tratados de corrección y su objetivo fue dar a conocer los errores, fruto de la interferencia lingüística, que se producían, a finales del siglo XIX, en boca de un catalanohablante cuando este utilizaba el castellano. A pesar del interés que el conjunto de la obra despierta desde un punto de vista lingüístico, puesto que se constatan ciertos aspectos de pronunciación e incluso dialectalismos de la época, este trabajo se centra en el estudio de los términos marcados como «modismos», «locuciones», «frases» y «catalanismos». A través de su análisis se puede apreciar a qué estructuras afectaba, a finales del siglo XIX, el proceso de castellanización del catalán.

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This study delves into the syntactic parsing abilities of children and infants exposed to Catalan as their first language. Focusing first on ages 3 to 6, we conducted two sentence-picture matching tasks. In experiment 1, 3 to 4-year-old children failed in identifying singular third-person subjects within null-subject sentences, although they performed above chance in all other scenarios, including plural third-person subjects and sentences with overt full DP subjects. This is reminiscent of the results of Pérez-Leroux for Spanish. In experiment 2, with the same design but involving numeral distractors, children's performance was above chance level across all conditions from age 3 to 4. Then, in experiment 3, we moved to a younger age range with the help of eye-tracking techniques. The findings revealed that infants at 22 months had the ability to parse subject–verb agreement in sentences with third-person null subjects, and at 19 months there was evidence of parsing for third-person plural null subjects. These findings are inconsistent with the perception of children grappling with syntactic agreement computation. We argue that instances of underperformance in subject–verb agreement parsing identified in the literature often stem from task-related and pragmatic issues rather than core syntactic delay. If so, the putative asymmetry between early production of verbal inflection and late comprehension disappears; rather, the results suggest early establishment of matching operations and mastery of language-specific agreement properties before production starts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents VeLeCa, a new resource on Catalan verbal inflection containing the phonological form of 174,200 word forms from 3,484 lexemes and their respective lexical and morphosyntactic values and frequencies. We describe the challenges and procedure we followed in the compilation and phonemization of this resource, and conduct a computational analysis of the Paradigm Cell Filling Problem (i.e. morphological predictive complexity) in the system to contrast it with those from related Romance languages.

This paper provides a fine-grained characterization of two confirmational tags in Catalan, oi? and eh?, starting with the novel claim that, despite appearances, they do not have the same distribution or meaning. While oi? is a rather unconstrained confirmational, eh? is proved to be sensitive to whether the main predicate of the sentence anchor p is objective or subjective. We ultimately propose that confirmational questions with oi? make a request for confirmation of the truth of the sentence anchor, whereas a confirmational with eh? is a request for the commitment of the addressee to the truth of the sentence anchor. Two consequences emerge from our analysis: oi? should be preferred when factual truths instead of opinions are conveyed, while eh? should be preferred in contexts where the speaker is not necessarily interested in finding out the truth of p. These predictions are tested in three experimental studies, which provide empirical support for the theoretical proposal regarding the different pragmatic contribution of both tags.

This article presents a comprehensive description of auxiliary selection in Catalan. Specifically, after explaining how the phenomenon worked in Old Catalan, we show what are the factors (such as the event/argument structure or the grammatical person, among others) that determine the use of be and have in those Catalan varieties ​​that, although with some innovations, retain this distinction: (i) Algherese Catalan, (ii) Northern Catalan and some varieties of Central Catalan, (iii) Ribagorçan Catalan, and (iv) Balearic Catalan. Likewise, we show a series of theoretical considerations that we believe relevant for the analysis of the patterns of variation found in Catalan and, by extension, in Romance.

This paper presents data that can help determine whether factors such as gender or age can become significant in authorship analysis through X in Catalan. Considering the principles of forensic linguistics (in particular, authorship analysis and idiolectal style), 500 publications have been analyzed from a stylistic point of view, focusing on three discursive aspects: specific features of X, pragmatic variables and stylistic variables. Contrary to what some authors have found for English X users (Cicres, 2015), the paper shows that, in Catalan, emoticons, exclamations or letter multiplication are not distinctive features for gender or age. However, elements such as the concatenation of hashtags, the use of links, the intensification of first-person subject pronouns, the use of capital letters or the use suspension points can be meaningful for age ¾but not for gender. This paper thus constitutes a first step towards finding truly distinctive elements in the use of X in Catalan, even though more studies, with larger corpora, need to be done to confirm these tendencies.

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Borrowing can be facilitated or inhibited by linguistic constraints in language contact situations. This paper examines one such constraint: the effects of discoursivization on the usage of Spanish discourse connectives in Balearic Catalan. Using a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of conversational corpus data, this study seeks to determine the role of discourse among the social and linguistic factors that govern this contact phenomenon. The statistical findings indicate that the Spanish and Catalan discourse connectives have undergone and continue to undergo a process of discoursivization. However, this movement towards discourse does not seem to have an effect on their usage, and instead social factors are the most significant determinants affecting the use of Spanish discourse connectives in contemporary Balearic Catalan. Nonetheless, it appears that these Spanish loanwords may be falling out of use among younger speakers as a result of linguistic normalization efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study reports tongue configuration data recorded with ultrasound for two sets of consonant sequences uttered by five native Catalan speakers. Articulatory data for the onset cluster pairs [kl]-[ɣl] and [kɾ]-[ɣɾ], and also for [l#k]-[l#ɣ] and [r#k]-[r#ɣ], analyzed in the first part of the investigation revealed that, as a general rule, the (shorter) velar approximant is less constricted than the (longer) voiceless velar stop at the velar and palatal zones while exhibiting a more retracted tongue body at the pharynx. These manner of articulation-dependent differences may extend into the preceding liquid. Data for [k#l]-[kl] and [k#r]-[kɾ] dealt with in the second part of the study show that the velar is articulated with more tongue body retraction for [k#l] vs. [kl] and for [k#r] vs. [kɾ], and with a higher tongue dorsum for [k#l] vs. [kl] and the reverse for [k#r] vs. [kɾ]. Therefore, clusters are produced with a more extreme lingual configuration across a word boundary than in syllable-onset position, which at least in part may be predicted by segmental factors for the [k#r]-[kɾ] pair. These articulatory data are compared with duration data for all sequence pairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the latest developments in the corpus language planning interventions in the implementation of the codification (Haugen, E. (1983). The implementation of corpus planning: theory and practice. In J. Cobarrubias & J. A. Fishman (Eds.), Progress in language planning. International perspectives (pp. 269–289). Mouton.) of Catalan by Catalan-language media corporations, taking into consideration that Catalan is a pluricentric language (Darder, L. (2015). La variació lingüística en els mitjans audiovisuals com a estratègia conscient. Treballs de sociolingüística catalana, 25, 303–316. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/342907; Costa-Carreras, J. (2021). Compositionality, pluricentricity, and pluri-areality in the Catalan standardisation. In A. Cortijo Ocaña & V. Martines (Eds.), History of Catalonia and its implications for contemporary nationalism and cultural conflict (pp. 182–197). IGI Global; Mas Castells, J. À. (2021). Invitació al pluricentrisme. Notes per a l'estudi d'una llengua pluricèntrica en conflicte. Treballs de sociolingüísticacatalana, 31, 15–30. https://raco.cat/index.php/TSC/article/view/386900) that is standardised both de facto and de jure. It concludes that Muhr, R. (2020). European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict – An overview. In R. Muhr, J. À. Mas Castells, & J. Rueter (Eds.), European pluricentric languages in contact and conflict (pp. 11–64). Peter Lang approach to language variation management does not fit with the Catalan communicative space, and that the proposals, both of the term multi-standard by Auer, P. (2021). Reflections on linguistic pluricentricity. Sociolinguistica, 35(1), 29–47. , and of the term location by Dollinger, S. (2019). The pluricentricity debate on Austrian German and other Germanic Standard varieties. Routledge are not needed, as Mas Castells's (2021) definition of 'centre' is fully pertinent for Catalan. A sociolinguistic and standardological perspective has been adopted (Joseph, J. E. (1987). Eloquence and power. The rise of language standards and standard languages. Frances Pinter; Costa-Carreras, J. (forthcoming). On the epistemological status of comparative standardology and standardisation. Caplletra, 79 (fall 2025)) to compare the style guides of three audiovisual media corporations, with an exemplification on a particular issue in relation to both prescription and use. An appropriate description of the linguistic pluricentricity of three Catalan-language media corporations (Darder 2015; Costa-Carreras 2021; Costa-Carreras, J. (2022, June 15–17). What ideological factors are relevant to analyse language variation management for Catalan? Talk presented at the Symposium Rules and incentives in language policy and planning: Economic, legal and sociolinguistic approaches; Mas Castells 2021) is therefore offered: the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters in Catalonia, the Valencian Broadcasting Corporation with headquarters the Valencian Country, and the Broadcasting Public Entity of the Balearic Islands with headquarters in the Balearic Islands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examines whether Differential Object Marking (DOM) realization and word order in relative clauses (RCs) in Spanish affect processing and interpretation among monolinguals and highly proficient Catalan–Spanish bilinguals. RCs are parallel in Catalan and Spanish, but DOM is much more restricted in Catalan than in Spanish, and, interestingly, the distinction between subject and object RCs relies mainly on the presence/absence of DOM. To examine DOM optionality, we concentrate on the top portion of the animacy scale and test the human/non-human contrast. Exploring these two populations allows us to test whether they resort to different strategies for the following three reasons: (1) bilingualism places an increased burden on memory processes); (2) the partial overlap between both DOM systems might lead to the influence from Catalan into Spanish); and (3) optionality has been proposed to characterize bilingual grammars). Findings from a word-by-word non-cumulative self-paced reading task showed that DOM modulates RC processing. With [+human] obligatorily marked objects, both monolinguals and bilinguals read subject RCs faster than object RCs, suggesting a strategy favoring subject RCs. However, monolinguals solved the interpretation early while processing but bilinguals, despite the more restricted DOM character of Catalan, are sensitive to DOM albeit displaying delayed spill-over effects. With [−human] optionally marked objects, bilinguals performed faster than monolinguals. We suggest that the uneven experience with DOM in Catalan, particularly with the non-standard variety that frequently displays DOM and that our bilinguals also speak in everyday conversations, facilitates bilinguals' adaptation to the optional marking of non-human objects in Spanish, much in the same manner that they accommodate the presence or absence of DOM with both human and non-human objects in other native language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a brief overview of the official language certifications available for seven Romance minority languages which are spoken in Europe: Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, and Galician (primarily spoken on the Iberian peninsula), Corsican and Occitan (spoken in France), and Romansh (spoken in Switzerland). As a component of a broader project which has previously examined official credentials for selected Celtic and Slavic languages, the study first outlines general information about the Romance language family and the minority and minoritised languages which are members of it, before giving a short overview of language certifications as well as the study’s methodology and research questions. Subsequently, in adopting a similar approach to the previous analyses, each of the seven linguistic case studies is presented with the objective of obtaining core information about the types, levels, awarding institutions, and wider recognition relating to the certifications concerned. These findings are then discussed, after which some conclusions and additional research possibilities are offered.

Determining the linguistic nature of light verbs – whether they are lexical or grammatical units – is still an open question. Light verbs are often characterised as delexicalized. Thus, grammaticalization would be the process by which a lexical verb (lexical unit) assumes the value of a light verb (grammatical unit). However, it has also been argued that light verbs are just regular verbs, albeit ones with little semantic specification. If they are, there can be no grammaticalization, at least in principle. Nevertheless, even if light verbs are considered lexical verbs, the way they evolve invite to relate them to grammaticalization processes. In this paper I contribute to the debate by providing evidence on the historical evolution of the Catalan verb agafar ‘to take, to catch, to pick, to get’. The conclusion is not firm, but suggests that the description of light verbs can benefit from the framework of grammaticalization.

El párrafo es una unidad esencial en el texto escrito. Con todo, quedan por explorar muchos aspectos de su contrucción discursiva. En este trabajo, nos preguntamos si existen marcadores del discurso introductores de párrafo. para ello nos centramos en un buen candidato, la forma del catalán dit això ("dicho esto/eso"), que, formalmente, es una cláusula absoluta de participio formada por el verbo decir y un demostrativo. Analizamos ejemplos procedentes del Corpues Textual Informatitzat de la Llengua Catalana del Institut d'Estudis Catalans. Después de delimitar la construcción respecto a usos no fijados o menos fijados (predicativos) de la secuencia, diferenciamos los casos en los que une párrafo de los casos en los que une oraciones. Una vez realizadas estas operaciones básicas, analizamos el funcionamiento del marcador. Establecemos sus funciones textuales (es decir, las relaciones de coherencia que manifiesta), algunos rasgos pragmáticos relevantes, como el género discursivo del texto en el que aparece, y sus características formales (posición y combinación). Ello permite relacionar dichos rasgos con la variable central de nuestro estudio (elementos unidos, es decir, párrafo u oración). El estudio muestra que dit això es una unidad en proceso de gramaticalización que funciona como estructurador de la información y se vincula a algunos géneros monologales (ensayo y periodismo) y a algunos géneros dialogales (sobre todo la narración). Del análisis cuantitativo podemos concluir que dit això se puede considerar un marcador de frontera discursiva, función que incluye el marcaje de párrafo, pero no se limita a dicha unidad, pues también da cuenta de casos de unión oracional (no marcada gráficamente como párrafo distinto) en los que hay un cambio enunciativo (paso de discurso citado a discurso citante). Dicha matización evita los problemas que comporta la arbitrariedad gráfica inherente al párrafo como unidad discursiva intermedia.

The aim of the present research is to analyze the linguistic landscape (LL) and Catalan heraldic imagery of the 2022 Diada, Catalonia’s National Day. The theme and language(s) of all Diada signage were systematically coded, along with other semiotic elements such as colors and heraldic emblems. A qualitative content analysis complemented this quantitative coding scheme and reveals that Independence was the dominant theme in signage, followed by Betrayal, Solidarity, and Catalan Cultural Identity. The targets of Betrayal messages were pro-independence Catalan politicians who, in the eyes of those partial to secession, have failed to make good on their promises in the five years following the contentious Catalan independence referendum. The quantitative analysis points to an overwhelming preference for the pro-independence estelada over the less politically-charged senyera. Heraldry-theme relationships show the senyera to be most represented in signage pertaining to Catalan Cultural Identity. This adumbrates that it is still an appropriate symbol for claiming ethnocultural group membership, though La Diada semiotics overall emphasized political rather than cultural statements. The LL and heraldic data from the 2022 Diada shed light on the evolution of secessionist sentiment and the role of traditional Catalan symbols in the tense socio-political climate of post-referendum Catalonia.

We show that Lusztig's canonical basis for the degree two part of the Grassmannian coordinate ring is given by \({\rm SL}_k\) web diagrams. Equivalently, we show that every \({\rm SL}_2\) web immanant of a plabic graph for \({\rm Gr}(k,n)\) is an \({\rm SL}_k\) web invariant.Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05E10, 14M15, 20C30Keywords: Grassmannians, webs, canonical basis, Catalan

The clitic pronoun ne and the functional element de introducing nominal constituents have many nominal and prepositional functions across Romance languages. In this article, we focus on the nominal functions, singling out three different bundles of semantic features that characterize both ne and de. They can denote properties of individual entities, properties of kinds, or predicate properties. The article shows that Catalan ne and de display the three types of denotation, while Italian ne and de only display the first one. This article further supports the hypothesis that the indefinite determiner de can be overt or silent, thereby unifying de-phrases (and the Italian partitive article) with bare nouns. The analysis of de as an indefinite determiner is then extended to adjectival de, which is claimed to mark concord features on adjectives in both Catalan and Italian.

This article focuses on the choice of nominal forms in a language with articles (Catalan) in comparison to a language without articles (Russian). An experimental study (consisting of various naturalness judgment tasks) was run with speakers of these two languages which allowed to show that in bridging contexts native speakers' preferences vary when reference is made to one single individual or to two disjoint referents. In the former case, Catalan speakers chose (in)definite NPs depending on their accessibility to contextual information that guarantees a unique interpretation (or the lack of it) for the entity referred to. Russian speakers chose bare nominals as a default form. When reference is made to two disjoint referents (as encoded by the presence of an additional altre/drugoj "other" NP), speakers prefer an optimal combination of two indefinite NPs (i.e., un NP followed by un altre NP in Catalan; odin "some/a" NP followed by drugoj NP in Russian). This study shows how speakers of the two languages manage to combine grammatical knowledge (related to the meaning of the definite and the indefinite articles and altre in Catalan; and the meaning of bare nominals, odin and drugoj in Russian) with world knowledge activation and accessibility to discourse information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Middle Ages, a new verb class was formed within the Catalan 2nd conjugation, characterized by the presence of a velar augment (/g/ or /sk/) in the L-pattern (first-person present indicative and present subjunctive) and PYTA (preterite, old conditional and imperfect subjunctive). In this paper, we study three verbs that avoided, totally or partially, the analogical velarization undergone by most 2nd conjugation verbs: haver 'to have', ser 'to be', and voler 'to want'. Based on a corpus of Catalan works ranging from the 13th to the 19th century, we test the extent to which the L- and PYTA-patterns of these three verbs are psychologically real for speakers. The results confirm what some authors have already observed for other languages, pointing out that the high frequency of these specific verbs or the need for phonological congruence could inhibit the morphomic pattern or even block analogical levelling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L’article analitza breument l’ampla varietat de conceptes de populisme en la política actual. Aquesta anàlisi intenta mostrar com el populisme ha donat suport als particularismes lingüístics a València i a Mallorca. Aquests particularismes ( anomenats blaverisme a València, i gonellisme a mallorca) no reconeixen la unitat de la comunitat lingüística catalana, i per tant amenacen la recuperació social (normalització) de la llengua catalana.

Este artículo analiza la obra poética y lingüística de Pau Estorch y Siqués (Olot 1805 – Barcelona 1870) desde el punto de la ideología lingüística. En concreto, analiza como en Estorch son presentes tanto ideologías propias del antiguo régimen y herederas del tradicionalismo de la edad moderna como ideologías que acercan el personaje a los postulados ideológicos de la Renaixença. El hecho más destacado de su obra poética y lingüística es la maniobra retórica que esconde una legitimación del idioma castellano en Cataluña como lengua apta para algunos usos lingüísticos.

Aunque en un principio se dijese que los marcadores del discurso no eran propensos a la transmisión interlingüística, numerosos estudios sobre el dinamismo de los marcadores del discurso en distintas lenguas en contacto apuntan a que estas partículas son altamente proclives al préstamo y a la adaptación. La presente investigación analiza los valores que obtiene y desarrolla la partícula “entonces”, procedente del español, en la modalidad hablada de la variedad valenciana del catalán. A pesar de no ser la forma propia de la lengua, está altamente extendida en el registro informal del catalán valenciano, hasta el punto de que es una forma híbrida, es decir, que está adaptada fonéticamente a las normas fonológicas del catalán y se realiza como [entonses], [antonses] o [‘tonses], dependiendo del subdialecto. Aunque “entonces” no sea la única partícula que se haya prestado del español al catalán, no hay ningún estudio hasta la fecha que haya explorado sus usos en el valenciano. Por tanto, en el presente estudio se analiza la presencia de “entonces” en secuencias narrativas a partir de un corpus de entrevistas semidirigidas. Además, también se contrastan los usos de “entonces” con los de los mismos hablantes de la partícula propia en el catalán valenciano, “aleshores”, con tal de determinar si adquieren los mismos significados y si están en distribución complementaria o en sustitución completa. A pesar de la existencia de estudios sobre cada uno de estos marcadores en sus respectivas lenguas, esta es la primera investigación que analiza el uso de “entonces” en el discurso del catalán valenciano y lo contrasta con su forma propia. Con ello, la presente investigación pretende llenar el vacío que ya se ha explorado en otras situaciones de contacto y contextos lingüísticos mediante análisis pormenorizados de los usos, valores y posiciones de ambas formas de los marcadores discursivos.

Studies of speech rhythm have often used read speech rather than spontaneous speech in their comparisons. However, read speech has been shown to be perceptually different from spontaneous speech, which may be due to rhythmic differences between the two modes. To examine this, the effect of speaking mode (spontaneous or controlled) was assessed in a group of 82 Spanish-Catalan learners of English relative to a control group of 8 native English speakers. Results found strong rhythmic differences between the two modes, but minimal differences between the learners and native speakers. Additionally, Mahalanobis distance analyses revealed that non-native speakers differed significantly more from the native control group in the spontaneous condition than the controlled condition.

The interest towards Anton Chekhov’s theatre entered a new phase in the end of the seventies of the 20th century in Barcelona. A quarter of century after Franco’s death the translations of Chekhov’s plays into Catalan and representations thereof recorded a new growth: translators and artists were trying to fill the gap resulting from the cultural crisis suffered under the dictatorship by introducing into the national cultural system some of the most recognized authors of the world, already considered classics in the western neighbour countries (France, Great Britain, Germany). The 100th anniversary of Chekhov’s death offered a perfect occasion to pay tribute to the Russian author’s memory. The present research sums up the principal events dedicated to the centenary of Chekhov’s death in 2004 in Barcelona and focuses on the staging of “Uncle Vanya” by Joan Ollé, one of the most memorable interpretations of this play in Catalonia, in order to evaluate the reception thereof through the analysis of periodical issues. Based on Hans-Robert Jauss’s approach to the literature as a constant interaction between the work of art, the public and the author, the study sheds light on the reception of Chekhov’s theatre in Catalonia and its evolution from the first direct translation of the play until a key staging which, in turn, became a reference for the following generations. The analysis concludes that the centenary of Chekhov’s death may be considered an inflection point in the history of his reception in Catalonia. Thanks to the production of the first canonical staging of “Uncle Vanya” in Catalan, Chekhov’s name stopped being associated exclusively with popular performances produced by foreign companies.

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The literature on nationalist movements in Western democracies has almost exclusively focused on ethno-nationalist parties by attributing to them the key-role of "ethnic entrepreneurs". Yet, non-institutional actors such as social movement organizations and grassroots groups can significantly impact the history of territorial contention and reshape movements. Their role is thus explored in the Scottish and Catalan struggles for selfdetermination between the 1980s and the 2000s. Firstly, the historical analysis of transformative events shows how the latter were set in motion by noninstitutional actors. While Scottish organizations and groups operated to foster crossparty cooperation, the Catalan counterparts operated to mobilize society and popular support. Secondly, a thematic analysis of primary sources shows that the mobilizations fuelled by these events produced organizational and cultural changes in both nationalist movements. These changes left their legacy suggesting that former grassroots mobilizations made an important difference to resources mobilized in the current secessionist movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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