This study examines the gender effect on the attitudes towards slang expressions, two types of vulgarisms, and professional vocabulary. Participants (N = 663) evaluated the speakers as well as the appropriateness of four ...

Speech activity represents a conglomeration of specific features of the person which manifest themselves in the flow of speech through our anthropophonic features, pronunciation habits, and the way we think and speak. The ...

The purpose of this article is examining the phonetic variation in the morphology of the present passive participle in Modern Greek. The systematization of the conclusions of our observations provides clarity over the ...

The paper summarizes the results of the scientific research project “Online Greek-Bulgarian-Greek glossary of linguistic terms“, carried out with the financial support of the Scientific Research Fund of the University of ...

The research object of the present text is the Russian masculine personal names, derived from Roman mythological names. The objective of the article is to present a complete list of these names, including all their variants. ...

Timbre is the perceptual correlate of the sound spectrum (as, in some ways, the color is the eye’s response of the light spectrum). In the speech stream, timbre involves two basic types of sets of invariant neural properties, ...

The object of this article is the French infinitive and its possible equivalents in the new Bulgarian language. The infinitive forms, resultative present and present tense, develop the formal and semantic opposition ...

Corpora are powerful tools for the study of language. They build on, complement, and sometimes defy the “linguistic intuition“ for language structures. The article reviews the existing methodologies for corpus studies that ...

Combining separate units into a single representation is commonly illustrated at the letter level, when we associate a series of letters together as a word. When it comes to verbatim memory, it is not surprising that we ...

The paper presents bulgarian child language e-corpus developed in the applied linguistics lab at shumen university. Its description focuses on the broad opportunities presented by both the format chosen for the presentation ...