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Prior Language Knowledge, the Language Environment, and Cognitive Resources Set the Stage for New Language Learning in Multilinguals
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Andrea A. Takahesu Tabori – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I investigated how cognitive resources as well as formal, and informal language experience impact language learning in two studies. In the first study (Chapter 2), I examined the learning of Spanish grammatical gender by Chinese international students who were studying abroad in the US. The goal of that study was to uncover…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish
On Distributional Features of Adverbial Modifier of Manner in Typologically Different Languages: A Case Study
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Gahraman, Mirzayeva Intizar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The study aims to analyze the distributional features of adverbial modifier of manner in two languages that are typologically and genealogically different: English and Azerbaijani. Although the issue has been focused in these languages separately from various angles including semantic, syntactic and prosodic perspectives, there is a gap in the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Semantics
Distributionelle Phonemahnlichkeit (Distributional Similarity between Phonemes)
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Lehfeldt, W. – Phonetica, 1973
Descriptors: Charts, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Notes on Fang-Kuei Li's "Languages and Dialects of China"
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Matisoff, James A. – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1973
Critical analysis of Fan-Kuei Li's article which appeared in "Journal of Chinese Linguistics", v1 n1 p1-13 Jan 1973. (DD)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Classification
On Some Aspects of Linguistic Typology
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Lekomcev, Ju. K. – Linguistics, 1975
The problems of measurement and type-formation are discussed in the light of two approaches toward systems of linguistic objects. First, they are discussed as gestalt systems; second, they are discussed in the light of systems of general type viewed as sets of collections of arbitrary distinctive features. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Grammar
The Relationship between Polish and Other Slavic Languages.
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Birkenmayer, Sigmund S.
This paper discusses the relationship of Polish to the other languages considered to be within the Slavic group. The comparison is mainly phonological and considers the Proto-Slavic features still preserved in Polish as well as the distinctive features of Polish which have developed from Proto-Slavic. The development of vowels and consonants is…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics