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Dikilitas, Kenan; Demir, Bora – Online Submission, 2012
This qualitative study investigates discourse-level patterns typically employed by a Turkish lecturer based on the syntactic patterns found in the collected data. More specifically, the study aims to reveal how different native and non-native speakers of English perceive discourse patterns used by a non-native lecturer teaching in English. The…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Oral English, College Faculty
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Gandour, Jack; And Others – Language and Speech, 1980
Data on the durations of vowels preceding voiced and voiceless stops in three normal speakers and three esophageal speakers (who had had laryngectomies) suggested that the vowel length variations that were observed were language-specific, governed by phonological rules of English, and were not language universals. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research
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Wolf, Dennie – Journal of Education, 1985
Investigation of commonalities in children's language across tasks showed that children with literate and oral speech styles made both contrastive and similar types of adaptations when portraying events through play and oral narration. As they moved from playing to narrating, both groups edited more carefully and employed more explicit language.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Differences, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
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Akiyama, Michael M. – Cognitive Psychology, 1979
Acquisition of answering systems based on speaker intention v literal components of questions was investigated in monolingual and bilingual English- and Japanese-speaking children. The results suggested that the English system is acquired earlier than the Japanese system and that the two systems interact in bilingual children. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns