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Shen, Yao – Bulletin of the English Language Center, 1973
Descriptors: Dialect Studies, Dialects, English (Second Language), English Instruction
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Duanmu, San – Language, 1995
This study argues that both Shanghai and Taiwanese have a metrical system, that compound stress is left-headed in Shanghai and right-headed in Taiwanese, and that a tonal domain is a metrical one. The article explains some asymmetries between Shanghai and Taiwanese and maintains that metrical structure can be determined when data on phonetic…
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Dialects
Joseph, Brian D., Ed.; Zwicky, Arnold M., Ed. – 1987
A collection of essays marking the retirement of Ilse Lehiste, chair of the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University (1967-71 and 1985-87) includes the following contributions by her colleagues: "On Incomplete Mutations in Breton"; "Perceived P-Center Location in English and Japanese"; "Ordering Paradoxes and…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Bulgarian, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
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)