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Valoda: nozīme un forma, 3: Teorija un metodoloģija latviešu valodniecībā
2013
Senķīniešu vēsturnieka sniegtās ziņas par Āzijas huņņiem
2015
Rusistica Latviensis 8
2019
Восьмой сборник серии Rusistica Latviensis в своей основе составлен из материалов, прочитанных в виде докладов на международной научной конференции «Глобальные и локальные процессы в славянских языках, литературах, культурах 2», которая проходила 8–9 марта 2018 года, в рамках проекта «Гуманитарная мысль – язык, текст, культура».
Spanish/FL in Slovakia. A historical and Methodological Approach
2015
Abstract The present investigation forms part of the draft of study in comparative perspective of the perception of the target language among students of Spanish from different universities and countries in Europe, from the perspective of teaching languages as a cultural fact and the importance of the social, political and economic factors in the evolution and perception of the importance of SFL learning in the European context. We want to carry out an approach to investigation of various authors on the evolution of the study of Spanish as a foreign language in Central and Eastern Europe, and specifically to the teaching of Spanish at Slovak universities. We have taken as a reference the ev…
Uniform, Sobolev extension and quasiconformal circle domains
1991
This paper contributes to the theory of uniform domains and Sobolev extension domains. We present new features of these domains and exhibit numerous relations among them. We examine two types of Sobolev extension domains, demonstrate their equivalence for bounded domains and generalize known sufficient geometric conditions for them. We observe that in the plane essentially all of these domains possess the trait that there is a quasiconformal self-homeomorphism of the extended plane which maps a given domain conformally onto a circle domain. We establish a geometric condition enjoyed by these plane domains which characterizes them among all quasicircle domains having no large and no small bo…
A Big Five personality inventory in two non‐Indo‐European languages
1995
In this study we report on two successful replications of a five‐factor personality inventory in two non‐Indo‐European languages, Estonian and Finnish, which both belong to the group of Uralic languages. Costa and McCrae's (1985) NEO Personality Inventory was adapted to these two languages. By all relevant psychometric parameters neither developed construct differs from the original construct: the reliabilities of only 11 per cent for the Estonian and 36 per cent for the Finnish subscale were lower than those of the respective NEO‐PI scales. The factor structure of both Estonian and Finnish inventories was very close to the five‐factor structure of the NEO‐PI, accounting for 71.7 per cent …
Foreign language pronunciation skills and musical aptitude A study of Finnish adults with higher education
2010
Abstract The main aim of this study was to examine second language production and discrimination skills in the light of musical aptitude. Our study was conducted in university settings in south-western Finland. English was used as a model for the second language due to its popularity among young adults. There were three types of tests used in this study: a pronunciation test, a phonemic listening discrimination task, and the Seashore test as an index of the musical aptitude. All the participants performed equally well in the phonemic listening discrimination task. However, the participants with higher musical aptitude were able to pronounce English better than the participants with less mus…
Production of written French skills by first generation immigrants in working age
2013
This paper aims to identify factors explaining the level of proficiency in written French by immigrants in working age, knowing that few research has been conducted in France on this issue. The originality of this paper is the stochastic production frontier model to explain the scores in written French and the productive performance of immigrants (considered as producers of their own skills). The main results show that mother tongue, age at immigration, social life and mother's diploma are elements which influence the effectiveness of this production. They play a crucial role in the ability of immigrants to use effectively their duration of stay in France and their length of education, cons…
Германская филология: Лингвистика речевой коммуникации
1990
В сборнике научных трудов исследуются актуальные проблемы процесса коммуникации. Изучение коммуникативного аспекта предполагает учет всего многообразия социальных, национальных и собственно языковых ситуаций, в которых происходит общение. Авторы сборника предполагают продолжить исследования в направлении: изучения контрастивного аспекта речевого этикета; коммуникации в условиях билингвизма; проблемы выбора международного языка-эталона; прагматической направленности коммуникативных единиц; преемственности риторической традиции в современных прагматических исследованиях; отражения коммуникативного динамизма в синтаксисе.