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Can L2 sentence processing strategies be native-like? Evidence from English speakers’ L2 processing of Chinese base-generated-topic sentences
(Elsevier, 2017-05-01)This article reports on an empirical study examining English speakers’ L2 processing of Chinese base-generated-topic (BGT) sentences. Forty-four highly proficient English-speaking L2 learners of Chinese and 23 native Chinese ... -
Orthoepy in the Tiberian reading tradition of the Hebrew Bible and its historical roots in the Second Temple Period
The Tiberian reading tradition of the Hebrew Bible contains a variety of features that point to its origin in the Second Temple period. Once such feature is the careful reading of the inflected forms of the verbs הָיָה and ... -
How was the dageš in Biblical Hebrew בָּתִּים pronounced and why is it there?
The dageš in the Biblical Hebrew plural form בָּתִּים ‘houses’ is generally presented as an enigma in descriptions of the language. A wide variety of opinions about it have been expressed in Biblical Hebrew textbooks, ... -
Language contact and the genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew
(Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, 2017-05-15)
