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Rachel McKee; Mireille Vale – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages. We categorised 917 new signs documented in the past five years according to their source, semantic field, and sign formation mechanism(s), both…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semiotics, Linguistic Borrowing, Phrase Structure
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Alrumhi, Hamood Mohammed – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study seeks to uncover the theoretical bases for the production of the classical Arabic phonetic terms and their elements in the means of generating terms for both lexical semantics and conceptual semantics. The research problem is concerned with examining the roots of generating these phonetic terms and determining the categories of their…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Phonetics, Semantics
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Szreder, Marta; de Ruiter, Laura E.; Ntelitheos, Dimitrios – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates the acquisition of the Imperfective verb inflection paradigm in Emirati Arabic (EA), to determine whether the learning process is sensitive to the phonological and typological properties of the input. We collected data from 48 participants aged 2;7 to 5;9 years, using an elicited production paradigm. Input frequencies of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, Foreign Countries
Aini Li – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examines whether and how psycholinguistic priming, and social knowledge are integrated in the identification of sociolinguistic variants. Using the English variable (ING), the alternation between -ing and -in' (e.g. thinking vs. thinkin') as a testing ground, this dissertation probes whether and how individuals utilize…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Phonology, Psycholinguistics
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Mukhamdanah; Firdaus, Winci; Inayatusshalihah; Hasina, Fajrin R.; Yulianti, Santy; Syamsurizal – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Manuscripts are known to transmit cultural heritage across generations along with thoughts, knowledge, customs, and people's behaviors. The current study aimed to examine the influence of Arabic manuscripts on the Malay and the Acehnese tradition with the spread of Islam. For this purpose, an Acehnese manuscript, "Kitab Tauhid" (KT), was…
Descriptors: Arabic, Indonesian Languages, Classification, Cultural Maintenance
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Burka, Nataliia – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The paper presents the results of a complex study of ?onsonantal phonemes' syntagmatics, registered at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the word throughout the historical development of the English language. The analysis of frequencies of consonantal clusters' actualization allowed the author to characterize the regularities of their…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Syntax, Diachronic Linguistics
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Christopher E. Gomez; Marcelo O. Sztainberg; Rachel E. Trana – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2022
Cyberbullying is the use of digital communication tools and spaces to inflict physical, mental, or emotional distress. This serious form of aggression is frequently targeted at, but not limited to, vulnerable populations. A common problem when creating machine learning models to identify cyberbullying is the availability of accurately annotated,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Computer Software, Computer Mediated Communication, Bullying
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Ranta, Elina – ELT Journal, 2022
This paper looks into the dilemma of what counts as a grammatical 'learner error' in ELT on the basis of recent results from English variationist research and English as a lingua franca research. Examples from these studies show that features often perceived as 'errors' for EFL speakers also occur in ESL production--where they are called…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hoque, Muhammad Azizul; Ali, Md Maksud; Puteh-Behak, Fariza; Baharun, Hazleena – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Although lexical borrowing from the English language into Bangla has been reported in the literature, not many studies have investigated the nature and the extent to which this borrowing has taken place in relation to Bangla short stories. This study examined five Bangla short stories, which were selected based on purposive sampling. Our analysis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Jinnie Shin; Renu Balyan; Michelle P. Banawan; Tracy Arner; Walter L. Leite; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Despite the proliferation of video-based instruction and its benefits--such as promoting student autonomy and self-paced learning--the complexities of online teaching remain a challenge. To be effective, educators require extensive training in digital teaching methodologies. As such, there's a pressing need to examine and comprehend the…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Video Technology, Personal Autonomy
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Tajeddin, Zia; Pakzadian, Maryam – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2020
The rise of world Englishes has challenged the emphasis on native-speaker accents and cultures in English language teaching. This study aimed to investigate the representation of world Englishes and cultures in three global language teaching textbooks, namely "Interchange," "English Result," and "American English…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Sejung Yang – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Testing is increasingly recognized as a vital part of language revitalization. I demonstrate here that assessment of linguistic knowledge should also be part of the planning process that precedes the creation of a revitalization program. I take as an example Jejueo, the language of Korea's Jeju Island. Whereas previously published work…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Vocabulary Skills, Language Patterns
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Pan, Jiejing – English Language Teaching, 2019
Based on the Communicative Action Theory, intersubjectivity theory and the interpersonal classification of metadiscourse, this study makes a comparison between the source texts and the English-translated texts of Chinese company profiles with a self-built parallel corpus, along the dimensions of lexical variation, lexical density, grammatical…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Translation, Computational Linguistics, Classification
Mohammed, Rania – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Multi-word sequences are important components of language because they are building blocks that can be used to create long stretches of discourse. They are word combinations that have particular importance because of their co-occurrence and function in discourse that suggest that they are stored and retrieved from memory as a whole rather than as…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis
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Al-Mutairi, Mohammad A. – English Language Teaching, 2020
This paper attempts to examine in a descriptive way the pioneering model of "World Englishes" proposed by Kachru in the mid-1980s that allocates the presence of English into three concentric circles: The "Inner" Circle, the "Outer" Circle, and the "Expanding" Circle. The Inner Circle presents the countries…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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