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Pointer years in tree-ring width and earlywood-vessel area time series of Quercus robur—Relation with climate factors near its northern distribution …
2013
Abstract For a long time, radial growth of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) in relation to environmental factors has been studied in Central Europe. However, there is insufficient information on oak growth in the Baltic region. Climate–growth interactions have been mostly investigated by correlation/response analysis between ring width and climatic factors. Other wood anatomical proxies, and also pointer year analysis, which focuses on weather extremes, can be sources of additional information. Wood samples were taken from 40 sites across Latvia. Tree-ring width (TRW) and mean area of earlywood vessels (EVA) were measured. To assess differences in wood formation among sites, a PCA was perfor…
Le nuove forme della pianificazione: metodologie e linguaggi della pianificazione dei rischi
2014
La pianificazione urbanistica costituisce una parte della complessiva attività di governo del territorio, ma diventa strumento fondamentale per la prevenzione dei rischi, se integrata con le politiche di protezione civile. Il Servizio Nazionale di Protezione Civile (istituito con D.Lgs. 24/2/92 n. 225) ha il compito di redigere appositi programmi di previsione e prevenzione regionali e provinciali per la mitigazione dei rischi naturali e antropici. All’interno di tali programmi emerge il ruolo della pianificazione urbanistica quale strumento di prevenzione e mitigazione dei rischi ambientali e del rischio sismico in particolare. Oggi, la mitigazione del rischio è riconosciuta tra i grandi t…
Efficacy of screen recording in the other-revision of translations: episodic memory and event models
2014
In a 2011 study, Angelone compared the self-revision results of graduate German translation students. Participants documented their original translations using Integrated Problem and Decision Reporting (IPDR) logs (Gile 2004), think-aloud protocols and screen recordings. They then used this documentation to assist self-revision of their translations. Angelone found a significant improvement in error detection overall and in each of six discrete error categories when participants used screen recordings to assist their self-revision. We sought to partially replicate Angelone’s findings concerning the efficacy of screen recording in translation revision. Instead of focusing on self-revision, w…
Redescribing the Nation : Anti-Semitism as a tool of nation-building in the Hungarian Numerus Clausus debates, 1920-1928
2018
Abstract Boosting national spirit through projection of otherness is not a new phenomenon, at least in authoritarian regimes. Yet the role of anti-Semitism in the Numerus Clausus debates in the Hungarian parliament in 1920 and 1928 is worth deeper analysis, as it bore a peculiar role in the Hungarian interwar counterrevolutionary nation-building. The Numerus Clausus law of 1920 set ethnic quotas to university enrolment; the explicit argument for this was countering the Jewish ‘over-representation’ in Hungarian society. However, in 1928 the law was amended, abolishing (in principle) the said quotas; this time the arguments favoured national consolidation, where segregation was to be moderate…
La atenuación de los marcadores de control de contacto en PRESEEA: un estudio comparativo entre España y México
2018
En el presente trabajo se estudia el valor atenuante de los marcadores conversacionales de control de contacto en el corpus de entrevistas PRESEEA en dos ciudades de España (Valencia y Madrid) y dos de México (Monterrey y México D. F.). A partir de la inclusión de las intervenciones tanto del entrevistador como del entrevistado, se observan una serie de tendencias que resultan comunes en estas dos variedades geográficas. Los resultados muestran que el entrevistado atenúa para proteger su imagen, mientras que el entrevistador utiliza esta estrategia pragmática como medio para conseguir información de su interlocutor. Esta recopilación de datos se puede dar a través de la petición directa de …
Atenuación en el discurso de los participantes no profesionales de los juicios orales. ¿Un caso de lenguaje débil?
2020
El objetivo de este artículo es estudiar la manera en que se manifiesta la atenuación en los participantes no profesionales de los juicios orales. Tradicionalmente, se ha vinculado el empleo de recursos relacionados con la atenuación (como los hedges o las fórmulas de cortesía) con el lenguaje débil, pues las personas que usan estos recursos en su declaración limitan su compromiso con lo dicho y son percibidas como menos creíbles y menos inteligentes (Erickson, Lind, Johnson & O'Barr, 1978). No obstante, tras analizar un corpus de 12 juicios orales españoles pertenecientes al juzgado de lo penal, se ha comprobado que el uso de estos y otros recursos que se asocian con la atenuación pueden p…
Are root letters compulsory for lexical access in Semitic languages? The case of masked form-priming in Arabic.
2014
Do Semitic and Indo-European languages differ at a qualitative level? Recently, it has been claimed that lexical space in Semitic languages (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic) is mainly determined by morphological constraints, while lexical space in Indo-European languages is mainly determined by orthographic constraints (Frost, Kugler, Deutsch, & Forster, 2005). One of the key findings supporting the qualitative difference between Semitic and Indo-European languages is the absence of masked form priming in Hebrew/Arabic with productive words. Here we examined whether masked form priming occurs in Arabic words when one of the letters from the productive root is replaced in the prime stimulus by another …
Two languages in the air : a cross-cultural comparison of preschool teachers’ reflections on their flexible bilingual practices
2016
Bilingual preschool education is under researched compared with bilingual school education. There is also a lack of research on bilingual preschool teachers’ agency and how they negotiate between two languages in the classroom. We examined the language practices of five bilingual preschool teachers working within three different socio-linguistic settings, in Finland (Finnish–Swedish and Russian–Finnish contexts) and Israel (an Arabic–Hebrew context) and interviewed the teachers about their use of languages in the classroom. We found that in each context the teachers reported modifications to an initial bilingual education model over time: from a strict separation of languages, to flexible b…
A prosodic analysis of truncated structures in Spanish colloquial conversation: the functions of formulation and mitigation
2018
Este trabajo analiza las características prosódicas de las estructuras truncadas en la conversación coloquial española con el fin de determinar si los rasgos prosódicos son índices predictivos de las funciones de formulación y atenuación. A partir de un estudio de corpus de conversaciones espontáneas, se analizan determinados fenómenos –duración, velocidad de habla, F0, pausas, inflexiones tonales– para elucidar si existe una correlación entre la interfaz prosódica y la pragmática. This study analyses the prosodic features of truncated structures in Spanish colloquial conversation with the aim of determining whether these prosodic features are predictable indices of the pragmatic functions …
Una propuesta didáctica para la implementación de la atenuación en español para los negocios
2018
El objetivo de este estudio es presentar una propuesta didáctica sobre la enseñanza de la atenuación en el ámbito de Español para los negocios, en Español como Lengua Extranjera. El diseño de esta propuesta tiene dos pilares: el análisis de materiales didácticos de E/LE de acuerdo con el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia en el nivel B1 y también se elabora un estudio de manuales. El resultado del análisis nos sirve para ver la frecuencia con la que se lleva al aula el fenómeno de la atenuación. Después, se propone una secuencia didáctica implementada en la Universitat de València. The aim of this study is to offer a didactic proposal for teaching mitigation in Spanish Business, in Spanish a…