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Qi Zheng – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Language is inherently variable, and learner language is particularly variable. The variationist paradigm considers learner language a heterogeneously variable yet inherently rule-governed system. Specifically, learners' alternation between native-like and nonnative-like variants of a variable or invariable target native speaker (NS) form…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
Valdivia Ruiz, Victor Alfredo – ProQuest LLC, 2016
From a usage-based approach, this dissertation explores the relationship between structural variability and discourse subjectivity in a series of interviews from the "New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish Survey" (Bills and Vigil 2008). Focusing on the use of cognitive and speech verbs, the analysis will demonstrate that a) structural…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Interviews, Spanish
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Le, Uy-Di Nancy, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2018
This year's conference theme, "Be Seen, Be Heard," reflected not only our goal of celebrating our achievements but also represented our intent of making sure everyone's voices are heard, especially during 2017's difficult political climate. The conference opened with a motivating address from Dean Laura E. Lyons, followed by an…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Graduate Students, Language Research, Linguistics
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Meteyard, Lotte; Patterson, Karalyn – Brain and Language, 2009
In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers. Relative to controls, patients were significantly…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar
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Dede, Keith – Language Variation and Change, 1999
Describes a morphosyntactic feature of the Xining dialect that is unique among all Chinese dialects: that is, the use of a preposition to express ablative nominal relationships. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Databases, Dialects, Foreign Countries
Gonzalez, Gustavo – 1978
The normal sequence of development of Spanish phonology and Spanish grammatical patterns in the speech of native Spanish-speaking children, two to five years old, was studied to determine the syntactic structures and range of language variability at each chronological age level. Middle-class children, living in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Grammar, Interviews, Language Acquisition