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Alrumhi, Hamood Mohammed – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study seeks to uncover the theoretical bases for the production of the classical Arabic phonetic terms and their elements in the means of generating terms for both lexical semantics and conceptual semantics. The research problem is concerned with examining the roots of generating these phonetic terms and determining the categories of their…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Phonetics, Semantics
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Liu, Haibo; Fang, Fan – ELT Journal, 2022
Although researchers and practitioners have discussed the concept of Global Englishes (GE), the degree of GE's influence in the practical use of English is much wider and deeper in the real world than in the field of education. Mainstream ELT practices tend to adhere to native and fixed norms, which are regarded as the central problems in ELT from…
Descriptors: Language Variation, National Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hambly, Helen; Wren, Yvonne; McLeod, Sharynne; Roulstone, Sue – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Children who are bilingual and have speech sound disorder are likely to be under-referred, possibly due to confusion about typical speech acquisition in bilingual children. Aims: To investigate what is known about the impact of bilingualism on children's acquisition of speech in English to facilitate the identification and treatment of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Speech Communication, Speech Impairments, Language Acquisition
Kwofie, Emmanuel N. – 1978
This monograph discusses the linguistic problems posed by the teaching and learning of non-African languages in multilingual African situations. Chapter 1 identifies and discusses the linguistic problems of foreign language education. Chapter 2 examines (1) the nature of linguistic descriptions, (2) the assumptions underlying contrastive analysis…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, French, Language Variation, Official Languages
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Liddicoat, A. J. – Language Sciences, 1990
Outlines some of the principle structural changes that have occurred in the Norman French dialect, spoken on the Isle of Jersey, as the result of contact with English. (18 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, French
Russ, Charles V. J. – York Papers in Linguistics, 1996
Early explanations of sound change were often sought in extralinguistic factors such as climate or the speakers' physiology. More recently, scholars have been reluctant to explain changes this way, but the most widely accepted extralinguistic explanation is the substratum theory. Other linguists, notably the Prague group, looked to the linguistic…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Influences
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Mahadin, Radwan S. – Language Sciences, 1989
Examines doublets in Arabic, discussing the alterations between the determinants in the doublets, and shows that the alterations are the result of phonological changes. It is concluded that the phonological changes are in agreement with changes that have occurred in other Semitic languages and in modern Arabic dialects. (30 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Consonants, Determiners (Languages), Diachronic Linguistics
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Dinnsen, D. – Journal of Linguistics, 1985
Reviews research studies that raise serious questions about phonological neutralization, that is, the merger of a contrast in certain contexts. Some findings cast doubt on the very existence of neutralization and the correctness of the theoretical principles that make assumptions based on neutralization. Reanalyzes neutralization in light of these…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Parks, Roger – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990
Colombian Inga is of particular interest to the Quechuanist because it is the northernmost member of the Quechuan language family spoken in modern times. In the present work, the relationship of Colombian Inga to other varieties of Quechua is examined. The affiliation of Inga with the Ecuadorian group of Parker's (1969a) Quechua A branch of the…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Classification, Language Variation
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Wyatt, Toya A. – Linguistics and Education, 1995
Provides an overview of current research on grammatical, phonological, semantic, and pragmatic development in African American English child language, as opposed to adult or adolescent language, and discusses the implications of these findings for professionals involved in second-dialect instruction, speech-language assessment, or intervention…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Grammar
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Yue-Hashimoto, Anne O. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
Tonal "flip-flop" (reversal of pitch value in which a direct exchange of value between two items is necessarily involved) can be found in a significant number of modern Chinese dialects, where an opposite pitch pattern is observed for the traditional Yin/Yang dichotomy of tones. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Chinese, Dialect Studies, Distinctive Features (Language)
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Poplack, Shana; Tagliamonte, Sali – Language Variation and Change, 1989
An analysis of the linguistic and social contexts of the occurrence of verbal "-s" marking in early Black English, within a historical and comparative perspective, shows that both third person singular and nonconcord "-s" are subject to regular, parallel environmental conditioning. (68 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Black Dialects, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics
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Ufomata, Titilayo – World Englishes, 1991
Analysis of the phonological influence of English on Yoruba found such influences as violation of phonotactic constraints, assimilation of English sounds with those of Yoruba sounds, irregular phoneme correspondences, and resistance to new syllable types. (19 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interlanguage, Language Variation
Major, Roy C. – IRAL, 1987
Reviews the general trends of research concerned with second language phonology, citing several principal factors involved in foreign accent such as age and native language interference. More recent investigations show that pronunciation of a foreign language is influenced by factors of stylistic variation and stages of development unrelated to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Interference (Language), Intonation, Language Research
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Kubler, Cornelius C. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
A dialect survey of the Penghu Islands concluded that the Penghu dialects belong to the Southern Min; variation within the dialects is considerable in terms of changed tones, certain finals, and some lexical items; and the Penghu dialects can be further divided into two large groups. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries
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