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Download full textLinn, Mary Sarah, Ed.; Oliverio, Giulia R. M., Ed. – 1992
"Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics" is intended as a forum for the presentation of the latest original research by the faculty and students of the Department of Linguistics and other related departments of the University of Kansas. Papers in this volume include: "Some Issues in Japanese Accent" (Kenneth Miner);…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Cantonese, Cherokee, Grammar
Williams, Colin H., Ed. – 1991
Papers on the situation of linguistic minorities in Western Europe and Canada include: "Linguistic Minorities: West European and Canadian Perspectives" (Colin H. Williams); "Geographical Aspects of Minority Language Situations in Italy" (Paul White); "Defining the Gaeltacht: Dilemmas in Irish Language Planning" (Reg…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Spencer, Mary L., Ed. – 1987
A collection of research reports concerning language issues on Guam includes: "Language Survival, the Ideology of English and Education in Guam" (Robert A. Underwood); "American Policies and Practices Affecting Language Shift on Guam: 1898-1950" (Rosa S. Palomo); "Is Bilingual Education a Friend or Foe of the Indigenous…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Chamorro, Child Language, Diachronic Linguistics
Extra, Guus, Ed.; Verhoeven, Ludo, Ed. – 1993
Papers from a 1990 Dutch colloquium on immigrant language varieties in Europe are presented in four categories: (1) use of immigrant language varieties in Europe; (2) first language acquisition in a second language context; (3) code-switching; and (4) language maintenance and loss. Papers include: "Sweden Finnish" (Jarmo Lainio);…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Ethnic Groups
Barkin, Florence, Ed.; And Others – 1982
Spanish, English, and American Indian languages in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico and bilingualism and language contact in the region are addressed in a collection of articles. Approaches to research in the languages of this region are discussed in articles by Valdes, Lope Blanch, and Brandt. Cultural and sociolinguistic…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Bilingualism, College Second Language Programs
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1980
The following award-winning dissertations in bilingual education are included here: (1) "The 1974 Bilingual Education Amendments: Revolution, Reaction, or Reform" by Susan Gilbert Schneider; (2) "(Memory Organization, Bilingualism, and Interlingual Interference: A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Distance and Semantic Judgment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Auditory Discrimination, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Silva-Corvalan, Carmen, Ed. – 1995
Papers on Spanish bilingualism and Spanish in contact with other languages include: "The Study of Language Contact: An Overview of the Issues" (Carmen Silva-Corvalan); "Language Mixture: Ordinary Processes, Extraordinary Results" (Sarah G. Thomason); "The Impact of Quichua on Verb Forms Used in Spanish Requests in Otavalo,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Arabic, Aymara, Basque
Verhoeven, Ludo, Ed.; de Jong, John H. A. L., Ed. – 1992
A collection of essays on first and second language proficiency from the fields of psychology and linguistics includes the following: "Modeling and Assessing Language Proficiency" (John H. A. L. de Jong, Ludo Verhoeven); "The Construct of Grammar in Early Language Development" (Folkert Kuiken); "Dimensions in Grammatical Proficiency" (Wim H. J.…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Clahsen, Harald, Ed. – 1996
The collection of essays and studies concerning generative grammar and first and second language acquisition includes: "The Optional-Infinitive Stage in Child English: Evidence from Negation" (Tony Harris, Ken Wexler); "Towards a Structure-Building Model of Acquisition" (Andrew Radford); "The Underspecification of…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Garcia, Eugene E., Ed.; Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1985
Papers on theory, technology, and public policy in bilingualism and bilingual education are collected in this volume designed to fill the need for systematic, high quality research related to bilingual populations in the United States. Part 1, "Language and Culture," contains five papers that discuss first and second language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Cultural Pluralism
Geach, June; Broadbent, John – 1989
A collection of essays focus on multilingualism and cultural diversity in United Kingdom schools, with emphasis on secondary education in some articles. The papers are: "Towards a Policy of Multilingual Secondary Schools" (Christopher Brumfit); "Curriculum Development" (Keith Kirby); "English, Whose English?" (Peter…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Bengali, Bilingual Students, Case Studies
Padilla, Raymond V., Ed. – 1983
A collection of papers on bilingual education covers these topics: (1) second-language acquisition theories relevant to bilingual education; (2) the age factor in native language maintenance and in the development of English proficiency of overseas Japanese children; (3) applying the Cummins language proficiency model to students who acquire…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Schneider, Edgar W., Ed. – 1996
Essays on varieties of English in the United States include: "Research Trends in the Study of American English" (Edgar W. Schneider); "Piney Woods Southern" (Lee Pederson); "Foundations of American English" (William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.); "The Comparability of Linguistic Atlas Records: The Case of LANCS an…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), College Students
