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The Nambiquara Linguistic Family

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Price, P. David – Anthropological Linguistics, 1978

This analysis of the Nambiquara languages spoken by American Indians living in Brazil focuses on the phonological systems, the phonological reflexes, Proto-Nambiquara vocabulary and non-cognate vocabulary, and geographical distribution. Comparisons are made with published sources. (SW)

Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Consonants, Dialects, Geographic Distribution

Discourse Markers in the Spoken Portuguese of Rio de Janeiro.

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de Olveira e Silva, Giselle M.; de Macedo, Alzira Tavares – Language Variation and Change, 1992

A study analyzed four major classes of discourse marker in Brazilian Portuguese: "ne" and other requests for feedback; "ai," a sequential connector; "ah, bom," and other turn initiators; and "assim," a marker of explanation. Distribution in various discourse functions and sociodemographic conditioning, and…

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English

Actes des Journees de Linguistique (Proceedings of the Linguistics Conference) (11th, Quebec, Canada, March 20-21, 1997).

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Caouette, Claudine, Ed.; Larrivee, Pierre, Ed. – 1997

English translations of articles in French in this issue include these: "Discourse Reported in the Print Media"; "Comparison of Register in Quebec and French Speakers"; "Method of Description of Specialized Verbs in View of Machine Translation Applications"; "Dialectal Areas in the Brazilian State of Rio Grande…

Descriptors: Adjectives, Biblical Literature, Braille, Contrastive Linguistics