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Li, Ying – Online Submission, 2018
In much previous research, language listeners were found to perform differently when listening to a second language (L2) spoken in foreign/native accents. Influential factors have not been ascertained. This study aimed to gain new insights into this issue. 82 Mandarin speakers of different L2 (English) proficiency and different degrees of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation
Bishop, Jason Brandon – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A primary function of prosody in many languages is to convey information structure--the "packaging" of a sentence's content into categories such as "focus", "given" and "topic". In English and other West Germanic languages it is widely assumed that focus is signaled prosodically by the location of a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Phonetics, Phonology, Sentence Structure
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Jones, Angela C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
In the current set of studies, a new hypothesis regarding the cause of the commonly observed U-shaped serial position effect (SPE) in spelling is introduced and tested. Instead of greater competition during output or weaker positional representation for word-medial letters, commonly accepted explanations for the cause of the SPE, the…
Descriptors: Spelling, Orthographic Symbols, Serial Ordering, Sentence Structure
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Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Pickering, Martin J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Research on word production in bilinguals has often shown an advantage for cognate words. According to some accounts, this cognate effect is caused by feedback from a level that represents information about phonemes (or graphemes) to a level concerned with the word. In order to investigate whether phonological feedback influences the selection of…
Descriptors: Priming, Evidence, Phonemes, Nouns
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Sanders, Gerald A. – Linguistics, 1977
An examination of the predicates "optional" and "obligatory" is made that suggests that they are far more appropriately viewed as derived rather than primitive notions, whose appropriate attributions follow in all cases from independent linguistic facts and principles of a much more general and more generally significant character. (Author/HP)
Descriptors: English, Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Sentence Structure
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Faber, David – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Discusses the accentuation of two types of sentence in English: (1) straightforward intransitive sentences, and (2) intransitive sentences embedded in the frame "It's just NP noun phrase[ V verb[-ing." Modifications to Gussenhoven's (1983) Sentence Accent Assignment Rule (SAAR) are suggested based on large groups of exceptions of the SAAR.…
Descriptors: English, Intonation, Language Rhythm, Phonology
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Lake, J. Joseph – Slavic and East European Journal, 1975
It is asserted that certain points in Russian grammar can be adequately explained only with reference to sentence stress. Areas which lend themselves to explanation in terms of sentence stress are suggested, and directions given for developing drills. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language Instruction
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Berman, Arlene; Szamosi, Michael – Language, 1972
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation
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McDonald, Janet L.; And Others – Cognitive Psychology, 1993
The effects of 3 factors with reputed control over the word-order options allowed by English grammar (animacy, word length, and prosody) were studied in recall and judgment tasks performed by 850 undergraduates in 7 experiments. Findings suggest a preeminent role of conceptual factors in word order. (SLD)
Descriptors: Decision Making, English, Grammar, Higher Education
Tarone, Elaine E. – 1972
Intonation patterns of Black English were studied and compared with those occurring in White English and formal Black English. It was found that: (1) the Black English corpus was characterized by a wider pitch range, extending into higher pitch levels than either the White vernacular or the formal Black English of the adult information; (2) a…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Differences, Data Analysis, English
Zatorski, R. J. – 1970
This paper cites the inadequacy of transformational generative grammar theories in their attempts to describe the meaning of a given sentence. The author sees the specification of meaning involving the recovery of the particular section or sections of the world model communicated or represented by the sentence. As a corollary, the author argues…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Graphemes
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Some Problems of YES-NO Answers" (Aleksander Szwedek); "Danish versus Russian. A Short Analysis of the Verb" (Christian Hougaard); "Polish SIE Constructions and Their English Counterparts" (Wojciech Kubinski); "More on the Time Reference and the Analysis of Tense"…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English, Grammar
O Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – 1985
Six papers on Irish English are presented. "The Study of Hiberno-English" (Jeffrey L. Kallen) surveys some aspects of research on the language and offers a historical context for the subsequent papers. "A Tape-Recorded Survey of Hiberno-English in Its Context" (T. M. Tilling) reports on the early stages of an island-wide survey…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Crystal, David – 1995
The encyclopedia is designed as a reference work on the history, structure, and use of English. The first section outlines five phases in the development of the English language (origins, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Modern English) and then proceeds to the varieties of world English and perceptions of English and its future.…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Encyclopedias, English, Etymology
Fisiak, Jacek – 1974
This report presents a contrastive analysis of the phonological and grammatical systems of English and Polish. The analysis is intended as a resource in teaching Polish to speakers of English. Consequently, areas of special difficulty for the English-speaking learner are stressed: the phonology of segmental phonemes, the morphology of nouns, noun…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
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