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Devin M. Kearns; Matthew J. Cooper Borkenhagen – Reading Teacher, 2024
The core task of reading is to look at letters and identify their sounds and meaning. In English, the spelling system is "quasiregular," meaning it includes many reliable patterns (some so reliable they could be called "rules") but also many inconsistent ones (the sound of "EA" in "heat" vs.…
Descriptors: Reading, English, Semantics, Cognitive Ability
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Lee, Tong King – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Although translation may be considered the "sine qua non" of bilingual legislation, the perceived authenticity and equivalence of different language versions of the same law are contingent on the disavowal of translation. Yet precisely because of such disavowal, translated versions of law are paradoxically valorized as equal in meaning…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Translation, Foreign Countries, Legislation
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Dye, Cristina; Kedar, Yarden; Lust, Barbara – First Language, 2019
Scholars of language development have long been challenged to understand the development of functional categories. Traditionally, it was assumed that children's language development initially relies on lexical elements, while functional elements become accessible only at later periods; and that it is lexical growth which bootstraps grammatical…
Descriptors: Child Language, Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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Moxam, Carol – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) working within the pediatric field will find themselves working with school-age children and consequently collaborating with teaching staff. Knowledge of the links between language, speech, and literacy can support and inform successful collaboration between the SLP and the teacher and their shared goal…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Professional Personnel, Language Skills, Speech Skills
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Becker, Lidia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
The paper provides an example of how immigration is constructed by receiving societies as a comprehension or language problem that requires special solutions. It focuses on the application of Easy-to-Read, a simplified register currently in expansion which addresses different groups of people with intellectual disabilities, to immigrants in Spain.…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Intellectual Disability, Semantics
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Berg, Kristian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
What determines consonant doubling in English? This question is pursued by using a large lexical database to establish systematic correlations between spelling, phonology and morphology. The main insights are: Consonant doubling is most regular at morpheme boundaries. It can be described in graphemic terms alone, i.e. without reference to…
Descriptors: English, Phonemes, Correlation, Morphology (Languages)
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Dunn, Peter K.; Carey, Michael D.; Richardson, Alice M.; McDonald, Christine – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2016
Learning statistics requires learning the language of statistics. Statistics draws upon words from general English, mathematical English, discipline-specific English and words used primarily in statistics. This leads to many linguistic challenges in teaching statistics and the way in which the language is used in statistics creates an extra layer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Statistics, Mathematics Education
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Reilly, Ronan; Radach, Ralph – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This paper provides a short overview of current issues in research on continuous reading in non-Roman orthographies. At the same time it also serves as an introduction to the present Reading and Writing Special Issue on this topic. The main questions examined in the contributions to this volume are closely related to issues that have been central…
Descriptors: Semantics, Information Processing, English, Reading
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Kim, Soyoung – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
In order to interpret a sentence, hearers must often access information that is not explicitly stated, drawing on pragmatic knowledge and/or the discourse context. A problem with previous work on the acquisition of English focus particles such as "only," "also," "even," etc. is that it has often ignored such factors. Using a context-based…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition
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Kelly, Spencer D.; Lee, Angela L. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2012
It is now widely accepted that hand gestures help people understand and learn language. Here, we provide an exception to this general rule--when phonetic demands are high, gesture actually hurts. Native English-speaking adults were instructed on the meaning of novel Japanese word pairs that were for non-native speakers phonetically hard (/ite/ vs.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Phonetics, Native Speakers, English
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Keizer, Evelien – Language Sciences, 2012
The aim of this paper is to challenge the generally accepted claim in descriptive and theoretical linguistics that English anaphoric proforms replace constituents (semantic or syntactic units) in underlying representation. On the basis of authentic examples, it is shown that the anaphoric use of the predicative proforms "one" and "do so", the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, English, Syntax
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Carter, Merilyn; Quinnell, Lorna – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2012
Students find it hard to interpret mathematical problem texts. Mathematics is a unique language with its own symbols (grapho-phonics), vocabulary (lexicon), grammar (syntax), semantics and literature. As in any other language, to make meaning of the text, the student must learn: (1) signs and symbols (for example: [division], x, [not equal to]);…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Semantics, Syntax, Symbols (Mathematics)
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Viau, Joshua; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language, 2011
In this article we offer up a particular linguistic phenomenon, quantifier-variable binding in Kannada ditransitives, as a proving ground upon which competing claims about learnability can be evaluated with respect to the relative abstractness of children's grammatical knowledge. We first identify one aspect of syntactic representation that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Language Acquisition
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Riddle, Elizabeth M. – Language Sciences, 2010
This article discusses some apparently paradoxical behavior of the English demonstratives "this/these" and "that/those" as determiners of proper nouns and as metaphorical signals of epistemic and affective stance within the proximal-distal opposition. It is argued that the apparent paradoxes are actually cases of shifting perspectives or points of…
Descriptors: English, Nouns, Semantics, Linguistics
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Woollams, Anna M.; Joanisse, Marc; Patterson, Karalyn – Journal of Memory and Language, 2009
The standard task used to study inflectional processing of verbs involves presentation of the stem form from which the participant is asked to generate the past tense. This task reveals a processing disadvantage for irregular relative to regular English verbs, more pronounced for lower-frequency items. Dual- and single-mechanism theories of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes
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