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Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Weiner (1988. "On Editing a Usage Guide." In "Words for Robert Burchfield's Sixty-Fifth Birthday," edited by E. G. Stanley, and T. F. Hoad, 171-183. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 173) describes usage guides as being 'as broad as the English language, covering spelling, punctuation, phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis, and…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Guides, Real Estate
Fuentes-Luque, Adrián – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
Cuisine and restaurants are powerful tools for cultural, social and tourist image-building, and projection for tourist promotion, particularly in the case of major tourist places and destinations which boast a well-deserved, long-standing history and reputation for gastronomical beacons. When menus are not properly translated (or transcreated)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dining Facilities, Translation, Tourism
Abu-Al-Sha'r, Awatif M.; AbuSeileek, Ali F. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2013
This paper attempts to compare between the advancements in the productivity of Arabic into English Machine Translation Systems between two years, 2008 and 2013. It also aims to evaluate the progress achieved by various systems of Arabic into English electronic translation between the two years. For tracing such advancement, a comparative analysis…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English, Translation, Computational Linguistics
Trude, Alison M.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Language Learning, 2011
We examined negative transfer from English and Spanish to Portuguese pronunciation. Participants were native English speakers, some of whom spoke Spanish. Participants completed a computer-based Portuguese pronunciation tutorial and then pronounced trained letter-to-sound correspondences in unfamiliar Portuguese words; some shared orthographic…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Portuguese
Hellige, Joseph B.; Adamson, Maheen M. – Brain and Language, 2007
Hemispheric asymmetry was examined for native English speakers identifying consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) non-words presented in standard printed form, in standard handwritten cursive form or in handwritten cursive with the letters separated by small gaps. For all three conditions, fewer errors occurred when stimuli were presented to the right…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Error Patterns, English, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Wakefield, Penny – Deafness and Education International, 2006
This paper examines some of the problems faced by deaf children when attempting to spell the words of written English. It analyses deaf children's awareness of English spelling patterns and considers whether there are spelling errors which are common to these children. Twenty-two children with varying degrees of hearing level were involved and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Deafness, Spelling Instruction, English
Brooks, Patricia J.; Sekerina, Irina – Language Acquisition, 2006
Errors involving universal quantification are common in contexts depicting sets of individuals in partial, one-to-one correspondence. In this article, we explore whether quantifier-spreading errors are more common with distributive quantifiers each and every than with all. In Experiments 1 and 2, 96 children (5- to 9-year-olds) viewed pairs of…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Grammar, Error Patterns
Jacobson, Peggy F.; Schwartz, Richard G. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2005
Grammatical measures that distinguish language differences from language disorders in bilingual children are scarce. This study examined English past tense morphology in sequential bilingual Spanish/English-speaking children, age 7;0-9;0 (years;months). Twelve bilingual children with language impairment (LI) or history of LI and 15 typically…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Morphemes, Verbs, English
Thordardottir, Elin T. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2005
Background: Although a number of studies have been conducted on normal acquisition in French, systematic methods for analysis of French and normative group data have been lacking. Aims: To develop a systematic method for the analysis of language samples in Quebec French, and to provide preliminary normative data on early lexical and syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Monolingualism, Error Patterns

Gartman, Max D. – 1994
An analysis of two French-English business dictionaries, a 1989 revised edition and a 1990 edition, looks at a number of weaknesses in the resources' design and content. First, problems are found in transcriptions of pronunciation that do not reflect actual usage when it differs from convention and in lack of attention to pronunciation of words…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Business Communication, Definitions, Dictionaries
Penfield, Joyce – 1982
Chicano English, spoken by many Chicanos and some Anglos, is an ethnic variety of English that serves as a marker of social identity, and it has specific linguistic parameters. It is similar to standard English, and often exists alongside interference English, spoken by Spanish-speakers beginning to learn English. Research supports the argument…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Educational Strategies, English
Woutersen, Mirjam – 1996
A study investigated the processes used by bilinguals for organizing vocabulary by presenting subjects with bilingual word recognition tasks in two modalities (aural and visual) and using a repetition paradigm. Subjects were asked to decide whether a word presented to them was a nonsense word or a real word. Two separate experiments are described.…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics