A Combined Weighting Model Based on Maximizing Deviation for Multiple Attribute Decision-Making by Xin Wang, Lei Zhang

“…Decision-makers’ judgment information is more suitable to be expressed by intuitionistic fuzzy sets rather than deterministic numbers or linguistic variables. In the multiattribute decision-making problem, the size of attribute weight reflects the relative importance of each attribute. …”
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Labiodentals /r/ here to stay: Deep learning shows us why by Hannah King, Emmanuel Ferragne

“…The secondary labial articulation which accompanies the post-alveolar approximant /r/ in English has attracted far less attention from linguists than the primary lingual one. However, the lips may be particularly important in the variety of English spoken in England, Anglo-English, because non-lingual labiodental articulations ([ʋ]) are on the rise. …”
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Quantifying and Characterizing Phonetic Reduction in Italian Natural Speech by Loredana Schettino, Francesco Cutugno

“…The proposed method provides insight into the phonetic variation processes that can systematically occur in natural speech with relation to specific linguistic structures; in particular, unstressed syllables are most likely to undergo variation phenomena, and systematic differences concern the syllabic position of the segmental change, in that the presence of lexical stress prevents vowel deletion or centralization, but allows for onset changes (such as consonant cluster simplification or lenition).…”
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LES EFFORTS DE SIMION MEHEDINŢI POUR RENDRE LA ROUMANIE MIEUX CONNUE AU-DELÀ DES FRONTIÈRES by ALEXANDRU UNGUREANU

“…The second period was that of the maturity stage, when he published very seriously documented works, like Der Zusammenhang der rumänischen Landschaft mit dem rumänischen Volke, where the author underlines four main characteristics of this country and of its people – the marginality of the country and of its population in the European continent, the isolation of the Romanians as a consequence of the great migrations, the linguistic and ethnic homogeneity of the Romanians and the archaic characteristics of the Romanian civilization. …”
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Another(’s) perspective on subjectivity in causal connectives: a usage-based analysis of volitional causal relations by Ninke Stukker, Ted Sanders

“…Under a linguistic categorization hypothesis causal connectives are taken as categorization devices. …”
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A Short History of the Formation of Hungarian Legal Terminology by József Szabadfalvi

“…A unified legal language and adequate terminology, both linguistically and conceptually, had been established in Hungary by the beginning of the 20th century. …”
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Introduction by Javier Suso López

“…C’est ainsi qu’elle évoque chez les linguistes ou les didacticiens ce qui touche à la norme orale d’une langue : elle contiendrait une « orthoépie » (qui règle la prononciation correcte), une « grammaire de l’intonation » (cf. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… African linguistic complexity is often defined in terms of its multilingualism and a complicated colonial sociolinguistic heritage. …”
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Translating culture: the rise and resonance of Chinese contemporary literature in the Portuguese-speaking world by Xin Huang, Xiang Zhang

“…It presents the extent, diversity, and marketing ratio of Chinese literary works translated into Portuguese, and utilizes this information to investigate how Portuguese-speaking readers engage with these translated works, focusing on their preferences, interests, demographics, and the impact of linguistic backgrounds. It then analyzes the reviews of well-received translations, including the Three-Body Problem trilogy, Iron Widow, and The Good Women of China, to determine how Portuguese-speaking readers interpret Chinese elements, historical references, narrative styles, and themes. …”
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The implementation of neo- and nonbinary pronouns: a review of current research and future challenges by Emma A. Renström

“…Additionally, I will examine resistance to gender-inclusive language and linguistic gender reforms, with a particular emphasis on nonbinary pronouns and the politicization of such reforms, which represents a significant barrier to the adoption of gender-inclusive language. …”
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Mina Loy’s Surrealist Strategies of Renewal by Diane Drouin

“…Relying on Loy’s lesser-known essays and notes on art, and on her own artworks, including her late assemblages, this article examines Loy’s linguistic, critical, spiritual, and material strategies of renewal. …”
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A posteriori modality, implicative modality by abduction. A case study: he must have been drunk to have said that by Geneviève Girard-Gillet

“…Gilbert, among other linguists working on modalisation. It is particular in that it expresses, with an infinitival proposition, an event that took place before Speech Time, and, with a modalized proposition, the cause that, according to the speaker, can explain the occurrence. …”
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Die buitebladkunswerk by Maritha Snyman

“…There is ample evidence however a cover design must, from a semiotic point of view, be regarded as an iconic complement to the linguistic text. Examples are cited of recent works In Afrikaans where covers were specifically chosen with the object of preparing the receiver for the content of the verbal text. …”
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La représentation paradoxale du chemin de fer chez Dickens : fantastique et mythe au service d’une peinture de la modernité dans Dombey and Son (1848) et « No. 1 Branch Line. The S... by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…Somehow, it seems logical to resort to the linguistic and symbolic tools of the uncanny to represent new, unknown and destabilizing realities, as in « The Signal-Man ». …”
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The DTA “Base Format”: A TEI Subset for the Compilation of a Large Reference Corpus of Printed Text from Multiple Sources by Susanne Haaf, Alexander Geyken, Frank Wiegand

“…We also focus on other aspects of the DTABf including consistency, interoperability with other TEI dialects, HTML and other presentations of the TEI texts, and conversion into other formats, as well as linguistic analysis. We include some examples of best practices to illustrate how external corpora can be losslessly converted into the DTABf, thus enabling third parties to use the DTABf in their specific projects. …”
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School of Political Science by A. D. Voskresensky

“…Studying at MGIMO-University traditionally includes enhanced linguistic component (at least two foreign languages). …”
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Development of prose appreciation teaching materials based on experiential learning by Dian Ramadan Lazuardi, Syukri Hamzah, Arono Arono

“…The research results show that the Prose Appreciation teaching lesson based on the Experiential Learning approach is valid and practical for use in lectures. The linguistic validation results show that the Prose Appreciation teaching material is very valid for use with a score of 0.89. …”
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L’accommodation dans le débat politique britannique Question Time. Quelle modélisation pour quelles stratégies ? by Laurent Rouveyrol

“…Dwelling on the concept of “positioning processes” (rapports de places) this framework enables us to encompass a wide range of discursive and linguistic phenomena observable in mediatized interaction, ranging from macro to micro orders, such as the “enunciative staging processes”, by which speakers achieve different degrees of involvement in their speech. …”
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The Lemmas and Inflections of Old English L-Nouns by De Las Pueblas Yanguas Laura Martín, López Ana Elvira Ojanguren

“…The main conclusion of this study is that the lemmatisation method comprising linguistic analysis with lexical databases as well as a combination of lexicographical and textual sources of Old English produces solid results. …”
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Cultural fit in emotion versus language: a study of Dutch-speaking Belgians and Turkish migrants in Belgium by Rüya Su Şencan, Batja Mesquita, Katie Hoemann, Katie Hoemann

“…Language patterns in the descriptions, as quantified by the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, distinguished between cultures more effectively than rating patterns. …”
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