According to the Romanian envoy, his compatriots tend to migrate to Spain, France and Italy rather than Britain because of linguistic proximity.
What other place can boast of superior air connections, physical proximity, cultural and linguistic ties and a history of strong commercial relations with Latin America?
The impact of linguistic proximity is discernible not only in the conscription into poetry of "nonstandard" local vocabulary but in the infiltration of traditional Irish metrics as well.
They were kin to one another not through will, not through fellow-feeling or linguistic proximity, but by reason of similar experience, of common historical situations that brought them together, at different times, in different configura-tions, and within shifting, never defini-tive borders.
linguistic proximity index.
The linguistic proximity indices are collected from Dyen et al. (1992) and Adsera and Pytlikova (2015), respectively.
First, this paper adopts the linguistic proximity index proposed by Adsera and Pytlikova (2015), labeled as API.
In addition, interference of third parties (mainly parents), religious beliefs, and socio-economic status, next to cultural norms and linguistic proximity determine the decision of whom to marry.
There are two major migration corridors that lead to the West, mainly Italy, due to linguistic proximity of Romanian and Italian, and to the East, mainly Russia due to historic ties.
Thus, compared to their Korean counterparts, who should have benefited from the linguistic proximity between their L1 and Japanese for syntagmatic association, Chinese speakers' L1-based syntactic knowledge did not seem to be very useful in processing Japanese collocations.
