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Topic Focus Database
The Topic-Focus Database gives information about the ways in which languages give formal expression to information-structural categories such as Topic, Focus and Contrast, and their many subtypes. Expression strategies considered include syntactic, morphological and prosodic means of indicating the informational status of a constituent. A further parameter considered ...
Standardization and Validation of a Value Retention Test 2003
The newly developed "Österreichische Wertefrageben" (ÖWF; Austrian Value Questionnaire), which consists of five scales (intellectuality, harmony, religiosity, materialism and conservatism) and 13 subscales, was tested for its statistical properties. The aim was to test whether the questionnaire actually covered what it was intended to measure ("validity"); to determine the...
Typological Database of Intensifiers and Reflexives
The Typological Database of Intensifiers and Reflexives (TDIR) provides information on intensifiers and reflexives as well as on some related domains of grammar such as the middle voice and scalar focus particles. Its focus is on accurate language description and documentation ('grammar fragments'). The data have been obtained from both native speaker consultation (primary...
Syllable Typology Database
The Syllable Typology Database (SylTyp) contains information on syllable structures. Restrictions and rules concerning possible syllabic structures are provided, as well as information pertaining to the length and content of these structures.
Anansi Masters - Aruba H11 - Gietel, Astrid Yvonne - A bet by Nanzi
A bet by Nanzi told by Astrid Yvonne Gietel, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Proving that you are not stupid through a ruse.Description: Nanzi challenges a man who says he is stupid. He makes a bet that the man can not even repeat three words that Nanzi gives him. The man takes up the challenge and loses.Content: An acquaintance of Nanzi...
Anansi Masters - Aruba H02 - Valles Hermoso, Milly Patricia - Nanzi and the King
Nanzi and the King told by Milly Patricia Valles Hermoso, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Finding a way to do an impossible job.Description: Nanzi finds extra strength by speaking in a peculiar way.Content: Nanzi is sent for by the King. He wants Nanzi to move a giant rock from one place to another place in the garden. Nanzi thinks not even...
Parliamentary Elections 2007: Swedish-speaking Finns
The election survey was conducted in Swedish and collected after the 2007 parliamentary elections. It is part of a four-year research project exploring politics in Swedish-speaking Finland (Svensk politik i Finland - beteende, opinion, framtid (2007-20010)). First, the respondents were queried how interested they were in politics and how much they followed the parliamentary...
Language Barometer 2008
The Language Barometer has measured the quality of language services in bilingual Finnish municipalities since 2004. All 43 bilingual municipalities in Finland were included in the study. The aim of the study was to find out how satisfied minority language speakers were with the municipal and state services offered in their mother tongue. The study was funded by the Ministry...
Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns, Autumn 2002
This study charted the identity of Swedish-speaking Finns and their opinions on various aspects of everyday life, such as politics and society, the use of mass media, values, and identity. The study was funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden). The first questions revolved around language. The respondents' and their families' Finnish and...
Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns 2003
This study charted the identity of Swedish-speaking Finns and their opinions on various aspects of everyday life, such as politics and society, the use of mass media, values, and identity. The study was funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden). The first questions revolved around language. The respondents' and their families' Finnish and...
Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns 2004
This study charted the identity of Swedish-speaking Finns and their opinions on various aspects of everyday life, such as the use of mass media, politics and society, leisure time activities, values, identity and the sense of belonging. The study was funded by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden). The first questions revolved around language, the...
Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns 2005
This study charted the identity of Swedish-speaking Finns and their opinions on various aspects of everyday life, such as politics and society, the use of mass media, leisure time activities, values, identity, and the sense of belonging. The study was funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden). The first questions revolved around language....
Barometer for Swedish-speaking Finns 2009
This study charted the identity of Swedish-speaking Finns and their opinions on various aspects of everyday life, such as politics and society, the use of mass media, leisure time activities, values, and the sense of belonging. The study was funded by the Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland (Svenska kulturfonden). The first questions revolved around language. The...
Graz Database on Reduplication
The Graz Database on Reduplication provides access to data on reduplication in the world's languages. The collected examples are described phonologically, morphologically and semantically, together with information on productivity and diachrony.
Typological Database System (TDS): initial code
The Typological Database System (TDS) is a web-based service that provides integrated access to a collection of independently created typological databases. It was developed with support from NWO grant 380-30-004 / INV-03-12 and from participating universities, and provides continued availability and extended documentation for its component databases, through a uniform...
The Typological Database System (TDS) Curator documentation
The Typological Database System (TDS) is a web-based service that provides integrated access to a collection of independently created typological databases. It was developed with support from NWO grant 380-30-004 / INV-03-12 and from participating universities, and provides continued availability and extended documentation for its component databases, through a uniform...
Attitudes towards Internationalization in Oulu 1996
The survey studied what the inhabitants of Oulu thought about internationalisation. The respondents were asked how often, in which countries and to what purpose they had travelled abroad during the past five years. The respondents' experiences of living abroad, contacts with foreigners and knowledge of Oulu's twin city activities were queried. Opinions on the direction in...
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, 2015
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Scottish Social Attitudes (SSA) survey was launched by ScotCen Social Research (formerly the Scottish Centre for Social Research) in 1999, following the advent of devolution. Based on annual rounds of interviews of between 1,200 to 1,500 people drawn using probability sampling (based on a stratified,...
2011 Census: Aggregate Data
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The UK censuses took place on 27 March 2011. They were run by the Northern Ireland Statistics & Research Agency (NISRA), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for both England and Wales. The UK comprises the countries of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern...
Linguistic development in L2 Spanish: Creation and analysis of a learner corpus
This project had two aims: to establish a small scale, high quality database of spoken learner Spanish, and to undertake a short programme of substantive research into L2 (second language)Spanish. The data was collected from classroom learners of Spanish (with English as their first language), from beginners to advanced level, using specially designed elicitation tasks. For...
Resisting Subjugation: Law and Power amongst the Santal of India and Bangladesh, 2002-2004
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is an enhanced qualitative study.
The study uses mixed methods and focuses on the Santal adivasi (tribal people) in Jharkhand, India and Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Anthropological and sociological data collection methods were used to collect material in four villages, three courts of law and from...
RWAAI: Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage
The Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage (RWAAI) is a digital multimedia resource dedicated to the maintenance of research materials documenting the intangible heritage of the Austroasiatic communities of Mainland Southeast Asia and India. It is the first resource dedicated to a specific language family in this diverse and dynamic region.
RWAAI...
De Nederlandse Dialectenbank - Stamboeken Vrije Gesprekken
De Nederlandse Dialectenbank, voorheen Soundbites, bevat meer dan duizend uur geluidsmateriaal, zoals dit in de afgelopen decennia is verzameld door onderzoekers van het Meertens Instituut (KNAW).Het betreft geluidsbestanden van dialectopnames van binnen en buiten Europa. Het leeuwendeel van de Europese opnames is afkomstig uit het Nederlandse taalgebied: Nederland,...
Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology
It is widely-held that people are poor at describing flavors. Flavor experts have been overlooked and understudied in drawing these conclusions. This study focused on flavor naming of two expert groups -- wine and coffee experts -- in comparison to novices. The present datasets are data from wine experts, coffee experts and novices when naming the smell and taste of wine,...
Competition and Symmetry in an Artificial Word Learning Task, 2016-2019
Natural language involves competition. The sentences we choose to utter activate alternative sentences (those we chose not to utter), which hearers typically infer to be false. Hence, as a first approximation, the more alternatives a sentence activates, the more inferences it will trigger. But a closer look at the theory of competition shows that this is not quite true and...
Connecting Content and Logical Words, 2016-2019
Content words (e.g. nouns and adjectives) are generally connected: there are no gaps in their denotations; no noun means ‘table or shoe’ or ‘animal or house’. We explore a formulation of connectedness which is applicable to content and logical words alike, and which compares well with the classic notion of monotonicity for quantifiers. On a first inspection, logical words...
Education, language and identity 2015-2018
A mixed methods approach was adopted, with the project undertaking qualitative interviews and a questionnaire survey.
The interviews were conducted with policy-makers, teachers and young people in both Wales and Scotland. These focused on the link between education, minority languages and identity in both countries. Key themes include the use of minority languages in...
Examining the emotional impact of verbal irony 2014-2016
In this project, a variety of methods (rating studies, measurement of psychophysiological responses, eye movements during reading, and measures of electrical brain activity) were used to investigate participants' emotional responses to verbal irony.
People often use ironic language in everyday conversation. For example, if someone does something stupid, their friend may...
International Centre for Language and Communicative Development: Input and Interaction Across Cultures, 2014-2016
Many Western industrialized nations have high levels of ethnic diversity but to date there are very few studies which investigate prelinguistic and early language development in infants from ethnic minority backgrounds. This study tracked the development of infant communicative gestures from 10 to 12 months (n = 59) in three culturally distinct groups in the United Kingdom...