• Critical analysis of textbooks of Serbo-Croatian for foreigners

  Tabula, Mirela (2022-10-10)

  The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the field of critical research of foreign language textbooks. The researchers in this field have thus far focused mainly on major global languages (with the exception of Catalan). ...
• Improving Chinese-Catalan machine translation with Wikipedia parallel corpus

  Liu, Xizuan (2022-09-21)

  Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the state-of-the-art solution for automatic translation. However, the performance of NMT models on low-resource language pairs is still limited because it relies on parallel corpora ...
• Building a Catalan-Chinese parallel corpus from Wikipedia for use in machine translation

  Zhou, Chenyue (2022-09-21)

  The lack of parallel corpora is one of the biggest challenges hindering progress in Machine Translation for low-resource languages. In this work, we crawl and filter parallel sentences in Catalan and Chinese from Wikipedia ...
• Development of vocal repertoires in non- and minimally verbal autism spectrum disorder

  Sheets, Kelly Lauren (2022-09-19)

  The autism spectrum comprises a substantial 30% of individuals said to be non- or minimally verbal. While these produce no phrase-speech by definition, they often do vocalize. However, their exact vocal repertoires remain ...
• Code-switching practices in palestinian arabic

  Makhoul, Ward (2022-09-19)

  Code-switching (CS) is known as an ubiquitous phenomenon in multilingual societies and countries. Vernacular Palestinian Arabic variety spoken in Israel is among these languages, informally used for day-to-day conversations ...
• La construcció del significat terminològic a partir de definicions evolutives: estudi de casos

  Masson, Ludovic Jacques François (2022-09-19)

  L'objectiu d'aquest treball és analitzar la construcció del significat de les persones en termes de conceptes vinculats a la medicina, i veure com la quantitat de coneixement rebut influeix en la seva percepció dels ...
• Analyzing how context size and symmetry influence word embedding information

  Gabanes Anuncibay, Inés (2022-09-14)

  Word embeddings represent word meaning in the form of a vector; however, the encoded information varies depending on the parameters the vector has been trained with. This paper analyzes how two parameters, context size ...
• The effects of embodied shadowing accuracy during embodied shadowing training on L2 English pronunciation

  Yao, Ting (2022-09-14)

  Recent evidence suggests that the shadowing technique (i.e., the immediate vocalization of speech stimuli) may be an effective tool to improve L2 English learners’ pronunciation. However, little is known about the ...
• Feminismo y violencia de género: el diccionario como refuerzo de una educación en igualdad

  Guerrero García, Beatriz (2022-09-14)

  El presente trabajo pretende estudiar la construcción del significado de palabras especializadas del ámbito del feminismo y la violencia de género de estudiantes de ESO y así poder valorar el método lexicográfico bottom-up. ...
• Relational adjectives and prepositional phrases: the missing link

  Bolea Centelles, Marina (2022-09-14)

  In Catalan, relational adjectives (RAs) appear proportionally more often than qualitative adjectives (QAs) within prepositional phrases. This study explores the reason behind this difference by connecting it to RAs being ...
• ¡Pucha! qué lata / ¡Chuta! no sabía: a description of the form, function, and distribution of two expressives in Chilean Spanish

  Rivera Bobadilla, Nicolás Esteban (2022-09-14)

  The present work describes the form, function, and distribution of pucha and chuta, two expressives used in Chilean Spanish. The research was made using a mixed methodology. On the one hand, a corpus-based study composed ...
• #dudaRAE: a merging analysis of folk prescriptivism and dialectology

  Pardo Alonso, Julia Elena (2022-09-07)

  Spanish is currently conceived as a pluricentric language—a shared pan-Hispanic norm speaks to and about all Spanish speakers worldwide. But prescribing the language is not restricted to institutions, people are watchful ...
• A Multimodal narrative intervention improves the frequency of use of catalan in spanish-dominant preschoolers

  Gómez i Martínez, Mireia (2022-09-07)

  Several narrative-based intervention programs have been designed to boost different children’s linguistic abilities. Nevertheless, very few studies have fully assessed the role of multimodality (e.g., embodied speech ...
• Is morphology before or after syntax?. Evidence for deciding

  Xu, Nuo (2022-09-07)

  Whether syntax feeds morphology or not remains a topic of lively debate in contemporary linguistics. This current study adopts the LFG framework to compare the approaches represented by two opposing views, which we use ...
• La multiplicitat dels models normatius del valencià: un debat entre convergència i particularisme

  Vázquez Sanchis, Miguel (2021)

  Actualment, els parlants de valencià tenen al seu abast més immediat dos possibilitats de normativa lingüística. D’una banda, el model anomenat convergent, promogut per l’Institut Interuniversitari de Filologia Valenciana, ...
• Temporal integration of gesture and speech in narrative discourse: an insight into the development of co-speech gesture use

  Florit Pons, Júlia (2020)

  Five-year-old children have been shown to start producing non-referential beat gestures in narrative speech. However, it remains unclear how the use of these gestures along with referential iconic gestures evolves over ...
• To what extent are naming variants for visually presented objects hierarchically related?

  García Balsalobre, Alberto (2020)

  Objects often belong to many different categories (e.g., a persian cat simultaneously belongs to the categories CAT, PET, MAMMAL, CARNIVORE and ANIMAL) and thus they do not have one proper name to refer to them but many ...
• Repair strategy use during SA: the impact of initial proficiency level

  Moran, Grace (2020)

  This study deals with a key issue in second language acquisition research (SLA), i.e. communication strategies (CS) in a specific learning context, that is, study abroad (SA) in the case of undergraduate students from a ...
• Termes que transformen realitats: una anàlisi diacrònica i social de la terminologia en l’àmbit de la reproducció assistida

  Reverté Roca, Mariona (2020)

  Aquest estudi investiga la terminologia en l'àmbit de la reproducció assistida (RA) i és una contribució a la recerca en el marc del projecte TERMMED (IULATERM, UPF). A través de la terminologia extreta d’un corpus d’articles ...
• Neologismes de l’àmbit de la gastronomia en català: una anàlisi diacrònica dels darrers 30 anys

  Ricart Fajula, Tània (2020)

  La gastronomia és un àmbit que ha experimentat canvis rellevants en els darrers trenta anys, marcats sobretot per la globalització i la difusió mediàtica. Aquest treball pretén analitzar diacrònicament, a través de la ...

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