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Menendez, Bruno – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
New positive attitudes towards language interaction in the realm of bilingualism open new horizons for sign bilingual education. Plaza-Pust and Morales-Lopez have innovatively reconceptualised a new cross-disciplinary approach to sign bilingualism, based on both sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. According to this framework, cross-modal…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sign Language
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Xu, Xiang – International Education Studies, 2009
From the point of view on postcolonial theories, this paper explores English language's influence on normal Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese, and concludes the advantage and disadvantage of this phenomenon.
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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MacSwan, Jeff – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2005
This article presents an empirical and theoretical critique of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model (Myers-Scotton, 1993; Myers-Scotton and Jake, 2001), and includes a response to Jake, Myers-Scotton and Gross's (2002) (JMSG) critique of MacSwan (1999, 2000) and reactions to their revision of the MLF model as a "modified minimalist approach." The…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Linguistic Borrowing, Syntax, Bilingualism
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Meney, Lionel – French Review, 1994
It is argued that anglicisms in Canadian French cover a much broader spectrum than in any European variety of French, with traits of the English language incorporated into spelling, pronunciation, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and phraseology. A typology of these features is proposed, with examples. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Classification, English, Foreign Countries, French
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Bernsten, Suzanne – 2000
This paper illustrates increases in the use of English in political speeches in post-Suharto Indonesia by analyzing the phonological, morphological, and syntactic assimilation of loanwords (linguistic borrowing), as well as hybridization and code switching, and phenomena such as doubling and loan translations. The paper also examines the mixed…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Huebner, Thom – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This paper examines the linguistic landscapes of 15 Bangkok neighbourhoods to explore questions of language contact, language mixing and language dominance. It provides a linguistic framework for analysis of types of codemixing. It highlights the importance and influence of English as a global language. It examines the signs from government…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Private Sector, Linguistic Borrowing, Syntax
Halmari, Helena – 1997
A study of codeswitching patterns in American speakers of Finnish, primarily at the syntactic level, is presented. Subjects are 21 Finnish-English bilinguals aged 8 to 91 years, whose speech in naturally occurring speech situations was recorded and analyzed for intrasentential codeswitching. The analysis looked at (1) how much codeswitching could…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Contrastive Linguistics, Finnish
Chang, Suk-Jin – 1996
The grammar of the Korean language presented here is descriptive and structural, and does not align with any particular theory. An introductory chapter gives some background information about the language and related research. Subsequent chapters treat: writing and sound systems, including some sound rules and suprasegmental features; morphology…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Joseph, Brian D., Ed. – 1986
A collection of papers relevant to historical linguistics and description and explanation of language change includes: "Decliticization and Deaffixation in Saame: Abessive 'taga'" (Joel A. Nevis); "Decliticization in Old Estonian" (Joel A. Nevis); "On Automatic and Simultaneous Syntactic Changes" (Brian D. Joseph);…
Descriptors: Arabic, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Diglossia
Sharp, Derrick – 1978
The emphasis of the Schools Council Research and Development Project at the University of Wales on teaching English to Welsh pupils aged 8-13 was on curriculum development. This paper covers the problem of acquiring the necessary basic knowledge about the needs of Welsh first language pupils in the learning of English when long-term, rigorous…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)