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Sabrin Shaban-Rabah; Roni Henkin; Rose Stamp; Rama Novogrodsky – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children show difficulties in their morphosyntactic abilities. Purpose: The current study aimed to examine morphosyntactic errors in sentences produced by DHH students, who are signers of Israeli Sign Language, and also users of Palestinian Colloquial Arabic (PCA) and written Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Method:…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Students with Disabilities
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Christodoulou, Christiana; Wexler, Kenneth – Language Learning and Development, 2023
This paper explores the nature of copula omission in Cypriot Greek individuals with Down Syndrome (DS). Previous studies on DS have attributed high rates of copula omission to an overall grammatical/inflectional impairment without offering further analysis. In order to identify relevant conditioning factors, we examined copula productions and…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Greek, Dialects, Foreign Countries
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Huensch, Amanda; Nagle, Charlie – Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the relationship among intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in the speech of second language learners of Spanish of varying proficiency in instructed contexts. It conceptually replicated studies by Munro and Derwing (1995a) and Derwing and Munro (1997), who found partial independence among the three speech…
Descriptors: Mutual Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Comprehension, Dialects
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Kawar, Khaloob – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Diagnoses, assessments, and treatments, as well as social and language interventions, can be effective in identifying and interpreting specific linguistic features that present special challenges to the language abilities of individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH). This article reports on a study analyzing complex sentences and…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Oetting, Janna B.; McDonald, Janet L.; Seidel, Christy M.; Hegarty, Michael – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: The inability to accurately recall sentences has proven to be a clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI); this task yields moderate-to-high levels of sensitivity and specificity. However, it is not yet known if these results hold for speakers of dialects whose nonmainstream grammatical productions overlap with those that are…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Sentences, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments
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Handley, Noella, Ed.; Yoshioka, Jim, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2020
The 23rd Annual Graduate Student Conference of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature (LLL) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa was held on Saturday, April 20th, 2019. As in past years, this conference offered the students in the six departments across the college, East Asian Languages and Literatures, English, Indo-Pacific…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Mandarin Chinese, Computer Mediated Communication, Language Usage
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Corder, S. P. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1971
Descriptors: Diagrams, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Error Patterns
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Kenemer, Virginia Lynn – 1982
The French of English speaking students of French as a second language is compared with "francais populaire" (FP) in order to determine similarities in their tendency toward simplified grammar and morphology. Simplifying characteristics that are typical of FP were obtained from French working class sources, while simplification patterns…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dialects, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Mitchell, Felicia – Online Submission, 2005
The purpose of this presentation is to encourage college teachers of writing, inside and outside Appalachia, to look at dialect-based errors in a more expansive way even as they help students to make better choices about standard usage. The discussion, which is presented within the context of a socio-cultural perspective on bias in perceptions of…
Descriptors: North American English, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition, Writing Instruction