1,720,992 research outputs found

    Morphosyntax des Possessivums im Zimbrischen: Evidenz aus den Wenker-Materialien

    No full text
    Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der der zimbrischen Wenkerbögen für die linguistische Forschung aufgezeigt, und zwar anhand einer Analyse der Morphosyntax des Possessivums. Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung sind die Belege des Possessivums als Begleiter des Substantivs in den historischen zimbrischen Wenker­bögen, mit denen sich die Situation der 1920er Jahre rekonstruieren lässt. Die Untersuchung wird dann synchronisch durch die Berücksichtigung der deutschen und italienischen Kontaktdialekte des Zimbrischen und diachronisch durch die Einbeziehung anderer Datenklassen aus der Zeit vor und nach 1920 ausgeweitet. Insgesamt ergibt sich daraus ein differenziertes Bild der Entwicklung der Morpho­syntax des Possessivums im Zimbrischen in Kontakt mit den benach­barten italienischen Dialekten

    The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions

    Full text link
    Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves not only reconstructing such imprints but also augmenting them with particular attitudes and stereotypes. Even though we know much about attitudes and stereotypes that are transmitted by, e.g. skin color, names or physical attractiveness, we do not yet have satisfactory answers how accent perception affects human behavior. How do people act in economically relevant contexts when they are confronted with regional accents? This paper reports a laboratory experiment where we address this question. Participants in our experiment conduct cognitive tests where they can choose to either cooperate or compete with a randomly matched male opponent identified only via his rendering of a standardized text in either a regional accent or standard accent. We find a strong connection between the linguistic performance and the cognitive rating of the opponent. When matched with an opponent who speaks the accent of the participant's home region the in-group opponent , individuals tend to cooperate significantly more often. By contrast, they are more likely to compete when matched with an accent speaker from outside their home region, the out-group opponent. Our findings demonstrate, firstly, that the perception of an out-group accent leads not only to social discrimination but also influences economic decisions. Secondly, they suggest that this economic behavior is not necessarily attributable to the perception of a regional accent per se, but rather to the social rating of linguistic distance and the in-group/out-group perception it evokes

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    Full text link
    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    Connecting People and Linguistic Data - der DSA DataHub

    No full text
    <p>Vortrag im Rahmen des 2. Text+ Plenarys: Connecting People and Data am 28./29. September an der SUB Göttingen.</p&gt
    corecore