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Easterday, Shelece Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The syllable is a natural unit of organization in spoken language. Strong cross-linguistic tendencies in syllable size and shape are often explained in terms of a universal preference for the CV structure, a type which is also privileged in abstract models of the syllable. Syllable patterns such as those found in Itelmen "qsa?txt??"…
Descriptors: Syllables, Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Contrastive Linguistics
Chan, R. S. K. – 1976
Formality as a style may be defined as language which reflects or "keynotes" the degree of familiarity between participants in a discourse. Working from this assumption, this paper attempts to answer the question, "How is formality best described?" Results of a series of tests indicate that informants' labels (with the…
Descriptors: English, Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Research
Odlin, Terence; Jarvis, Scott – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
With a Finnish-speaking majority and a Swedish-speaking minority, Finland offers a striking contrast in the kinds of cross-linguistic influence that can occur in the acquisition of English in a multilingual setting. While much previous research has looked at the differences between Finnish and Swedish influences, our study compares Swedish…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries