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PDF pending restorationEdrial-Luzares, Casilda, Ed.; Hale, Austin, Ed. – 1977
This volume is devoted to papers on an empirical or theoretical nature contributing to the study of language and communicative behavior in the Philippines. Articles included are: (1) "The Phonemic Consequences of Two Morphophonemic Rules in Molbog," by H. Arnold Thiessen; (2) "A Look at a Northern Kankanay Text (a syntactic…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Case (Grammar), Cebuano, Deep Structure
McKeown, Gerry; Freebody, Peter – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Argues that many interventions for introducing Aboriginal children to literacy continue to be based on "language deficit" models. Examines whether there is indeed a mismatch between the nonstandard spoken language of some Aboriginal children and textbook language. (RAE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cohesion (Written Composition), Dialects, Discourse Analysis
Loman, Bengt – 1982
A fundamental problem in the study of spontaneous speech is how to segment it for analysis. The segments should be relevant for the study of linguistic structures, speech planning, speech production, or communication strategies. Operational rules for segmentation should consider a wide variety of criteria and be hierarchically ordered. This is…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Coherence, Connected Discourse, Dialects
Download full textGesner, B. Edward – 1979
A study was conducted of the Baie Sainte-Marie Acadian dialect, a particular form of the French language derived from the French spoken in France during the 16th and 17th centuries. The purpose of this study was to analyze and explain a certain number of morphosyntactic deviations from standard French, from both a synchronic and a diachronic…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
Harlow, S. J., Ed.; Warner, A. R., Ed. – 1989
Papers on a variety of linguistic topics include six papers from a Festschrift and nine others, as follows: "Attitudes Towards English as a Possible Lingua Franca in Switzerland" (Urs Durmuller); "Functional Stability and Structural Levelling of Dialects: The Case of Maastricht" (Anton M. Hagen, Henk Munstermann); "On the…
Descriptors: Basque, Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects
Ringbom, Hakan, Ed.; Rissanen, Matti, Ed. – 1984
The 50 papers on English language and literature included in this compilation are grouped under the following headings: Old English (editing "Judgment Day," the syntactic types "every man" and "each of men," and continuity and variation in psalm glosses); Present-Day English (speech rate and vowel quantity as compared with Finnish): neutralization…
Descriptors: Authors, Body Language, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition)
