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Download full textLinnell, Julian; And Others – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1992
In this study, the performance of apologies among 20 non-native speakers (NNSs) of English and 20 native speakers (NSs) of English was examined. Two questions were addressed: How did NNSs' apologies compare with NSs' in identical situations? What relationship existed between the performance of apologies by NNSs and Test of English as a Foreign…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedFisher, Cynthia – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1994
Investigates the availability of syntactic cues to verb meaning. In Experiments 1-3, adult subjects' judgments of verbs' semantic similarity were compared with other adults' judgments about the syntactic properties of the same verbs. In Experiment 4, subjects paraphrased sentences formed by pairing verbs with unaccustomed sentence frames. (54…
Descriptors: Adults, Association Measures, Child Language, Cluster Analysis
