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Laufer, Batia – IRAL, 1990
Explores factors affecting the ease or difficulty with which new words are learned in a second language, focusing on such intralexical factors as pronuncability, length, parts of speech, inflexional complexity, derivational complexity, semantic features, abstractedness, specificity, idomaticity, register restrictions, and multiple meaning. (52…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Semantics
Melrose, Robin; Melrose, Susan F. – IRAL, 1989
Discusses the relationship between communicative function and grammar, and the relationship between initiation and discourse. Using a systemic functional framework, a model is set up with with three planes (semiotic, discourse, and language/paralanguage) and two linguistic levels (grammar and phonology) to demonstrate how situation, communicative…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Discourse Analysis, Grammar, Higher Education
