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“to make castles in Spain” (i.e., a difficult task in a country you don’t rule), first recorded in the 13th century. Whatever the construction and whatever the language, the expressionbuildingcastles in the airis dismissive of fanciful plans that will never pan out....
Phonetic vs. generalized markedness constraints Note that generalized constraints cannot fully replace phonetic versions of specific constraints. Thus the ban on front round vowels in a language such as English which disallows them (see also Sect. 4.3 for minor effects on German plurals) must be ...
The lack of German language skills among children and adolescents is a central issue in current Swiss education policy [1]. In the canton of Zurich, more than one in three elementary school children now comes from a home where German is not spoken as a first language. However, more and mo...
Looking at the mean scores produced by German speakers on the German Beauty scale, we observed a slightly lower mean of the German group toward their own language (German participants' group mean for German language Beauty = 46 [SD = 17.8] vs 48.2 averaged group mean of German Beauty). ...
The prefield anchors the clause in discourse, and although almost any type of element can occur in this position, naturalistic text corpora of native Swedish and native German show distinct language-specific patterns. Certain types of elements are more common than others in clause-initial position,...
For each language, the specific choices in style and tone that produce Microsoft voice are different. 2.1 Choices that reflect Microsoft voice Translating into German in a way that reflects Microsoft voice means choosing words and grammatical structures that reflect the same style as the source text...
In preperation for my family getting ready to travel to Europe we started looking at language apps to help us out. I had tried DuoLingo and Babel before and even a couple others. Since it had been a few years I decided to take a fresh look. We heard from a friend that they had good...
· Michael Bärmann2 1 Medizinische Fakultät Mannheim, Universität Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany 2 ENT Clinic, Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany History of the German-language ENT journals Introduction Johann Just von Berger (1723–1791) from Celle, the royal personal physician to...
Nimz, Katharina. 2015. The perception of vowel quality and quantity by Turkish learners of German as a foreign language. In Charles E. Cairns & Eric Raimy (eds.),The segment in phonetics and phonology, 253–266. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.10.1002/9781118555491.ch12Search in Google Scholar...