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William Morris's "Praise of My Lady"
(2018-12-05)
William Morris (1834-1896) was probably one of the most influential men in the Victorian Era. A designer, writer, book printer, and a committed Socialist, much of his work helped shape Victorian England and continues, still ...
The representation of polysemy in the mental lexicon and its processing
(2018-12-04)
Polysemy, the lexical semantic phenomenon in which a word form has different but related senses, is pervasive in natural languages. Examples of polysemy encompass regular polysemy and idiosyncratic forms, such as paper and ...
Are Semelfactives a basic aspectual category?
(2018-12-03)
This paper is an analysis of Semelfactives, the aspectual class introduced and defined by Smith (1991) as single-stage events occurring very quickly. Examples of Semelfactives include bodily events (e.g. blink, sneeze, ...
Vowel change in English and German: a comparative analysis
(2018-12-05)
English and German descend from the same parent language: West-Germanic, from which other languages, such as Dutch, Afrikaans, Flemish, or Frisian come as well. These would, therefore, be called “sister” languages, since ...
Negative Inversion in Standard English
(2018-12-04)
This paper focuses on the description of several controversial properties of Negative Inversion (NI) in Standard English. The first topic is the fact that, according to some scholars, subject-auxiliary (subj-aux) inversion ...
Gender Hybrids: The Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Colin Trevorrow`s Jurassic World
(2018-12-03)
[EN] Gender representation in Hollywood action cinema has inevitably become the object of a wide debate among its critics. The history of film can be divided in different periods according to the way in which gender reflected ...
The Acquisition of Prepositional Relative Clauses by Spanish Learners of English
(2018-12-03)
The acquisition of prepositional relative clauses by second language (L2) learners has become an important area in the study of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Thus, different theories have been suggested so as to explain ...
Characterizing and dealing with anxiety in the foreign language classroom
(2018-12-03)
Foreign Language Anxiety has been defined as the feeling of nervousness that may appear in the process of acquiring a new language. Although it may have beneficial effects on students’ performance, the presence of anxious ...
The influence of Basque and Spanish on the acquisition of English false friends: a cross-sectional study
(2018-12-04)
Recently there has been a growing interest in the acquisition of vocabulary in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Experts have conducted a vast amount of research on lexical processing and organization, examining ...
Attitudes towards Basque, Spanish and English in the Basque Country: a cross-sectional study
(2018-12-03)
English is considered to be the current lingua franca due to its global status. Several factors such as prestige and its widespread use have enabled English to become one of the most spoken languages in the world. Whilst ...