Between Friends

Identifying false friends between closely related languages

In this paper we present a corpus-based approach to automatic identification of false friends for Slovene and Croatian, a pair of closely related languages. By taking advantage of the lexical overlap between the two languages, we focus on measuring the difference in meaning between identically spelled words by using frequency and distributional information. We analyze the impact of corpora of d...

Between Children and Friends Financial Solidarity of Family and Friends in the Netherlands

The 'watch dog' role of the media, the impact of migration processes, health care access for children in developing countries, mitigation of the effects of Global Warming are typical examples of governance issues – issues to be tackled at the base; issues to be solved by creating and implementing effective policy. students to pave the road for innovative policy developments in Europe and the wo...

Forecasting ‘‘friends forever’’: A longitudinal investigation of sustained closeness between best friends

Using data collected across 19 years, the chief goal of this study was to discover predictors of continued relational closeness between best friends. Participants were same-sex and cross-sex best friend pairs recruited from a small Midwestern college. In 1983, participants completed several tests and activities designed to assess facets of intimacy, with follow-up studies in 1987 and 2002 measu...

Between Family and Friends Understanding the Interdependency of Private Transfers

Bridging the Gap Between Friends: How Presence Biases Distance Estimation

• Social relationships are commonly described in terms of physical space.1 • When drawing simple routes on maps, people draw paths closer to friends than strangers.2 • Americans overestimate the distance to cities outside the borders of the United States.3 • Inclusive social group words like “we” and “us” facilitate spatial location verification when attached to items shown proximately to a vie...