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Chui, Daniel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
Previous analyses of the Spanish deictic verbs "venir" "to come", "ir" "to go", traer "to bring" and "llevar" "to take" have drawn upon Fillmore's (1975) series of lectures on deixis in noting that speakers of Spanish forbid the use of the verbs "venir" and…
Descriptors: Native Language, Verbs, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
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Labov, William; Baker, Bettina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Early efforts to apply knowledge of dialect differences to reading stressed the importance of the distinction between differences in pronunciation and mistakes in reading. This study develops a method of estimating the probability that a given oral reading that deviates from the text is a true reading error by observing the semantic impact of the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Whites, Hispanic Americans, Dialects