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Verstaanbaarheid als interactioneel en contextgebonden fenomeen : een stand van zaken in het onderzoek naar het Nederlands als tweede taal
No full textAs a result of growing mobility and migration flows, the number of non-native speakers of Dutch in Belgium and the Netherlands have gradually increased over the past decades and so have the number of people enrolled in Dutch as a Second Language education. While there is huge variation in the profiles of these non-native speakers, they almost exclusively have in common that their Dutch sounds, in some way and at some stage, accented. In line with worldwide trends in foreign language teaching, the pronunciation goal in Dutch as a Second Language education has shifted from native-like to intelligible. Indeed, the notion of intelligibility has become prominent in language teaching and assessment. In this paper, we discuss the complexity of this notion and set it off against related terms like ‘comprehensibility’ and ‘foreign accent’. Through a literature review, we argue that intelligibility is an interactional and context-sensitive phenomenon: it is as much a responsibility of the speaker as it is of the listener or conversational partner(s) in general, whose attitudes will have an impact on the intelligibility and thus on the conversational flow and communicative success. After reviewing literature on the intelligibility of Dutch as a Second Language, we end by formulating some promising lines for future research
Replication Data for: L'acquisition des voyelles nasales en français : une étude acoustique et perceptive sur la prononciation des apprenants néerlandophones belges
No full textThis dataset contains two types of data on the production accuracy of French nasal vowels realized by L1 Belgian Dutch learners, i.e. listener-based and acoustic measures. By focusing on these two measures, we shed light on two different dimensions of production accuracy, i.e. vowel intelligibility and phonetic nativelikeness. First, this dataset contains acoustic data of 20 L1 Belgian Dutch speakers and 12 L1 Northern Metropolitan French speakers (Carignan, 2014). Vowels were produced in high-frequency monosyllabic French words during a reading task. F1 and F2 values were calculated for the midpoint of each vowel and normalized using Lobanov z-score calculation both across and within speaker groups. Secondly, this dataset contains perceptual data of 71 L1 French speakers respectively representing the Ile-de-France region (France) and Liège (Belgium). Participants performed an online identification task that assessed both listeners’ actual understanding of non-native accented nasal vowels and their category goodness judgments on a 5-point scale
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Simon Ellen et Mohring Werner.— Millionen ohne Heimat; Külz Helmut R. — Die Flüchtlinge aus der sowjetischen Besatzungszone; Neundörfer L. et Michler H— Die Geschichte vom Schliichtern Plan; Pfeil Elisabeth. — Fünf Jahre spater; Bohn Helmut. — Die Heimkehrer aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft
No full textCailar A. Simon Ellen et Mohring Werner.— Millionen ohne Heimat; Külz Helmut R. — Die Flüchtlinge aus der sowjetischen Besatzungszone; Neundörfer L. et Michler H— Die Geschichte vom Schliichtern Plan; Pfeil Elisabeth. — Fünf Jahre spater; Bohn Helmut. — Die Heimkehrer aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. In: Population, 7ᵉ année, n°3, 1952. pp. 563-564
Simon Ellen et Mohring Werner.— Millionen ohne Heimat; Külz Helmut R. — Die Flüchtlinge aus der sowjetischen Besatzungszone; Neundörfer L. et Michler H— Die Geschichte vom Schliichtern Plan; Pfeil Elisabeth. — Fünf Jahre spater; Bohn Helmut. — Die Heimkehrer aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft
No full textCailar A. Simon Ellen et Mohring Werner.— Millionen ohne Heimat; Külz Helmut R. — Die Flüchtlinge aus der sowjetischen Besatzungszone; Neundörfer L. et Michler H— Die Geschichte vom Schliichtern Plan; Pfeil Elisabeth. — Fünf Jahre spater; Bohn Helmut. — Die Heimkehrer aus russischer Kriegsgefangenschaft. In: Population, 7ᵉ année, n°3, 1952. pp. 563-564
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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