In Bulgarian, numerals such as pet (‘five’) assign a special ‘count form’ feature to the noun: this assignment takes place across any number of intervening modifier phrases, thus forming a long-distance syntactic dependency. In colloquial speech, speakers often erroneously substitute the count form for regular plurals. Previous corpus and psycholinguistic… Read more“SPEAKERS’ ERRORS IN THE USE OF THE ‘COUNT FORM’ IN BULGARIAN NUMERAL PHRASES: POSSIBLE SOURCES OF THE DISTANCE EFFECT”
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The Competence of Understanding in Intercultural Communication (Language Parallels)
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to present the process of understanding in communication according to the paradigm of cognitive linguistics. The views of modern linguists on the understanding as a heuristic and predetermined specific work in the on-line mode of communication are summarized. The difference with the structuralist… Read more“The Competence of Understanding in Intercultural Communication (Language Parallels)”