This paper measures the contribution of knowing Catalan to finding a job in Catalonia. In the early eighties a drastic language policy change (normalització) promoted the learning and use of Catalan and managed to reverse the falling trend of its relative use versus Castilian (Spanish), thereby recovering its economic value. Using census data for 1991 and 1996, I estimate a significant positive...

We introduce the super Patalan numbers, a generalization of the super Catalan numbers in the sense of Gessel, and prove a number of properties analogous to those of the super Catalan numbers. The super Patalan numbers generalize the super Catalan numbers similarly to how the Patalan numbers generalize the Catalan numbers.

Literature on young infants’ discrimination abilities for fricative consonants is controversial. The voicing distinction between /s/ and /z/, a phonemic contrast present in Catalan but not in Spanish, was selected to analyze early discrimination capacities and the effect of language experience in Catalan monolingual, Spanish monolingual and Catalan-Spanish bilingual populations. By 4 months of ...

Toddlers' and preschoolers' knowledge of the phonological forms of words was tested in Spanish-learning, Catalan-learning, and bilingual children. These populations are of particular interest because of differences in the Spanish and Catalan vowel systems: Catalan has two vowels in a phonetic region where Spanish has only one. The proximity of the Spanish vowel to the Catalan ones might pose sp...

Under the SpeechDat specifications, the Spanish member of SpeechDat consortium has recorded a Catalan database that includes one thousand speakers. This communication describes some experimental work that has been carried out using both the Spanish and the Catalan speech material. A speech recognition system has been trained for the Spanish language using a selection of the phonetically balance...

Joan Veny i Clar is Professor Emeritus of Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is one of the most important dialectologists of Catalan, with prominent works such as the 1978 monograph Els parlars catalans (“The Catalan dialects”), although he has also done extensive work in the diachronic linguistics and etymology of this language. He is a member of the Institut d’Estudis Catal...

As we know several people tried to get many structures for fine numbers (see [31, Sequence A000957]), while others on Catalan numbers (see [31, Sequence A000108]). Stanley [34,35] gave more than 130 Catalan structures while Deutsch and Shapiro [11] also discovered many settings for the Fine numbers. The structures for Fine numbers and Catalan numbers are intimately related from the list of Fine...