OBJECTIVES The notion that patterns of linguistic and biological variation may cast light on each other and on population histories dates back to Darwin's times; yet, turning this intuition into a proper research program has met with serious methodological difficulties, especially affecting language comparisons. This article takes advantage of two new tools of comparative linguistics: a refined...

This study aimed to establish perceptual strength norms for 1,000 words in the languages of Korean, English, and L2 order investigate similarity difference across as well influence environment on semantic processing. The norms, which are a collection word profiles that summarize how is experienced through different sensory modalities including five common senses interoception, provide valuable ...

Cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences, or metaphonemes1, can be defined across languages which are relatively closely related in exactly the same way as correspondences can be defined for dialects, or accents, of a single language (e.g. O’Connor, 1973; Fitt, 2001). In this paper we present the theory of metaphonemes, comparing them with traditional archiand morphophonemes as well as with sim...

This paper presents the application of a quantitative model for measuring impact manipulative implicit linguistic strategies on small comparable corpus Italian, German and French political discourses. The aim is to show cross-linguistic applicability model, originally developed put test Italian. Furthermore, analysis allows qualitative comparison three corpora: some statistical correlations ten...

Rooth & Partee (1982) and Rooth (1985) have shown that the English-specific rule-by-rule system of PTQ can be factores out into function application plus two transformations for resolving type mismatch (type lifting and variable binding). Building on these insights, this article proposes a universal system for type-driven translation, by adding two more innovations: local type determination for...