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Direct linkDe Lisser, Tamirand Nnena; Durrleman, Stephanie; Rizzi, Luigi; Shlonsky, Ur – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article provides the first systematic analysis of early subject omission in a creole language. Basing our analysis on a longitudinal corpus of natural production of Jamaican Creole (JC), we observe that early subject drop is robustly attested for several months. Early subject omission is basically confined to the clause initial position,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creoles, Language Acquisition, Sentences
Schmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard T.; Sullivan, William F.; Cogan, Leland S. – OECD Publishing, 2022
The OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 (E2030) project's overall goal is that of looking to the future in terms of how school curricula should evolve given the technological advances and other changes that societies are now facing. Towards that end, the E2030 project centres on the idea that education needs to equip students with the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Futures (of Society), Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Trends
Connors, K. – 1990
French gender marking errors made by 23 Anglophones and 20 Lusophones are analyzed. The observation is made that the errors noted are due to frequent arbitrariness of this particular aspect of the language. It is concluded that the arbitrary portions of this feature of the language are subject to remaining indeterminate in second language…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Foreign Countries, French, Interlanguage
Samuelsson, Christina; Nettelbladt, Ulrika – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2004
Background: Symptoms of prosodic problems have been found in Swedish children with language impairment at word and phrase level and possibly also at discourse level. Aims: The aim was twofold. First, to characterize a group of children with prosodic problems compared with children with normal language development. Second, to investigate the…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Grammar, Phonetics, Suprasegmentals
Robb, Michael P.; Maclagan, Margaret A.; Chen, Yang – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Various acoustic measures of speaking rate were calculated for 40 adult speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). These measures were then compared to a group of 40 adult speakers of American English (AE). Results of the analysis identified significantly faster overall speaking rate and articulation rate for the NZE group compared to the AE group. No…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, English, Language Variation
Park, Gi-Pyo – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
This study compared L2 listening comprehension with L2 reading comprehension in terms of the roles of linguistic knowledge, background knowledge, and question types among 168 university students learning English in Korea. The analyses of the data found that L2 listeners processed inferential information more easily than factual information, while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
Download full textLangendoen, D. Terence – 1987
An analysis of the status of undergraduate linguistics programs in the United States and Canada includes information about 165 U.S. and 18 Canadian institutions. It presents: alphabetic and state-by-state listings of the institutions offering linguistics education, including the recent history of their participation in the Linguistic Society of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bachelors Degrees, College Curriculum, Departments
Peer reviewedBhola, H. S. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1991
This review covers the status of languages and literacy in the countries of southern Africa, policies of literacy promotion, and the emerging symbioses among spoken languages and among literacies in mother tongues, national or official languages, and metropolitan languages. Five statistical tables are included. (66 references) (LB)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Definitions, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Perkins, Kyle; And Others – 1985
A study was carried on to analyze a data set in order to determine whether evidence can be found to support or refute the unitary factor hypothesis of language proficiency, which asserts that there is a single language dimension or factor underlying different language tests. The subjects were 50 advanced adult learners of English as a second…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Data Interpretation, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
