In: Journal of Writing Research, 2019, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 499-525
We investigated how well readers’ perceptions of the lexical richness of short texts can be predicted on the basis of automatically computable indices of the texts’ lexical properties. 3,060 French, German and Portuguese texts (between 9 and 284 words long) written by 8- to 10-year-olds were rated for their lexical richness by between 3 and 18 uninstructed raters, and over 150 indices were...
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La question de la place de l’allemand dans le canton et la ville de Fribourg fait débat depuis des décennies déjà. De nombreux rapports scientifiques, expertises et interventions politiques en attestent. La Constitution du canton de Fribourg (Cst. FR) retient que le français et l’allemand sont les langues officielles du canton et que leur utilisation est réglée dans le respect du...
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Die Frage der Stellung von Deutsch im Kanton und in der Stadt Freiburg beschäftigt die Öffentlichkeit schon seit Jahrzehnten. Zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, Gutachten und politische Vorstösse zeugen davon. Heute sind Französisch und Deutsch als Amtssprachen des Kantons und ihr Gebrauch in Achtung des Territorialitätsprinzips in der Verfassung verankert (Art. 6 Abs. 1 und 2 KV...
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In: Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht
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In: Taal en Tongval, 2013, vol. 65, no. 2, p. 171-210
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In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2015, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 1-38
This study investigates the lifespan development of the ability to correctly guess the meaning of foreign-language words with known translation-equivalent cognates. It also aims to identify the cognitive and linguistic factors driving this development. To this end, 159 German-speaking Swiss participants aged 10 to 86 were asked to translate 45 written and 45 spoken isolated Swedish words with...
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In: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 2017, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 23-40
Recognizing cognates in a related but unknown language (Lx) is of key importance in receptive multilingualism. Many studies have consequently investigated the impact of both item-related characteristics (most notably the cognates’ formal distance to their L1/L2 counterparts) and participant-related variables (e. g., the make-up of the participants’ linguistic repertoires) on Lx cognate...
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In: Revue transatlantique d'études suisses, 2017, vol. 6-7, p. 23-37
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In: Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences Du Langage
This paper discusses current language policy debates on national and immigrated languages in Switzerland. Problems with the principle of territoriality, which represents a locally monolingual regime in an officially quadrilingual country, and other issues related to the legal status of languages are discussed. The proportional representation of the national minorities and the use of their...
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