In: Bilingualism across the lifespan: Factors moderating language proficiency, 2016, p. 163-182
A classic topic in research on bilingualism across the lifespan is the relationship between the age at which learners start to acquire a second language (L2) and their ultimate level of proficiency in that language. Learning of an L2 that begins in infancy is typically associated with fluent speech, effortless language processing, and native accent. In contrast, late L2 learners tend to diverge...
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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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In: Change of Paradigms – New Paradoxes. Recontextualizing Language and Linguistics
This study investigates the impact of French corpus planning efforts in two semantic domains, telecommunication and sport. Lists of Anglicisms and their French counterparts pertaining to these two domains are used in a corpus study using the Google Books corpus. A method to explore this corpus diachronically is proposed, and analyses assessing the odds of encountering the ‘official’ French...
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(Reports of the Research Centre on Multilingualism)
The present document is the result of a literature-based study of recent developments in the field of language requirements and language testing for immigration and integration purposes. The study was carried out as part of the regular research programme 2011-2014 at the Swiss national Research Centre on Multilingualism (RCM).
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2014.
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The standard theory of lexicalization patterns in the encoding of motion events (STLP in the remainder of this chapter; cf. Talmy 1985; Slobin 1996b; Talmy 2000, 2009) has been used in such a great number of research projects in the past two decades that its extensive introduction is superfluous. However, in this contribution I argue that that some of the claims of ‘mainstream’ STLP research...
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In: Scientific Reports, 2013, vol. 3, p. -
Zipf's law on word frequency and Heaps' law on the growth of distinct words are observed in Indo-European language family, but it does not hold for languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean. These languages consist of characters, and are of very limited dictionary sizes. Extensive experiments show that: (i) The character frequency distribution follows a power law with exponent close to one, at...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2007.
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Mémoire de master : Université de Fribourg, 2004.
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2004.
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