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Peer reviewedAzoulay-Vicente, Avigail – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1988
A systematic analysis of the French interrogative focuses on the distinction between the syntactic processes (identification of question words, interrogative phrase preposing, and rules of question formation) and phonological processes (intonation patterns) that characterize questions in French. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, French, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedCziko, Gary A. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1978
An account of a research project based on the psycholinguistic theory of reading. Its purpose was to isolate, analyze and directly compare the use of syntactic, semantic and discourse constraints by readers of French either as a first or as a second language. (AMH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, French, Language Research, Psycholinguistics
Peer reviewedOliphant, Katrina – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
This study investigated sensitivity to morphological, semantic, and syntactic cues to grammatical gender among 64 students of college-level Italian. Results showed sensitivity to cues in word-final phonemes, but low awareness of gender associations of derivational suffixes. Students had more difficulty dealing with multiple cues, particularly when…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Grammar, Higher Education, Italian
