Correction: Ralli and Rouvalis (2022). Μorphological Integration of Loan Words in Kaliardá. Languages 7: 167

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Detection of Loan Words in Uyghur Texts

For low-resource languages like Uyghur, data sparseness is always a serious problem in related information processing, especially in some tasks based on parallel texts. To enrich bilingual resources, we detect Chinese and Russian loan words from Uyghur texts according to phonetic similarities between a loan word and its corresponding donor language word. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...

When Words Sweat: Identifying Signals for Loan Default in the Text of Loan Applications

When Words Sweat: Identifying Signals for Loan Default in the Text of Loan Applications

The authors present empirical evidence that borrowers, consciously or not, leave traces of their intentions, circumstances, and personality traits in the text they write when applying for a loan. This textual information has a substantial and significant ability to predict whether borrowers will pay back the loan over and beyond the financial and demographic variables commonly used in models pr...

Regular languages of partial words

We initiate a study of languages of partial words related to regular languages of full words. First, we investigate the possibility of expressing a regular language of full words as the image of a partial-words-language through a substitution that only replaces the hole symbols of the partial words by a finite set of letters. Results regarding the structure, uniqueness and succinctness of such ...