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Danielle Burgess – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The tendency for negation to appear early in the sentence, dubbed the "Neg-First principle" by Horn (1989:452), has been observed in the domains of typology, language contact, and language acquisition. Based on evidence from these fields, scholars have speculated about the source and universality of Neg-First biases affecting language…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Usage, Morphemes
Shuxiao Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological learning is a biased process: certain phonological patterns are easily accessed and learned by the speakers, while others show acquisition difficulties. These differences…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Nolting, Louvan E. – Federal Linguist, 1973
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Communication (Thought Transfer), Form Classes (Languages), Grammar