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Levin, Maurice I. – Russian Language Journal, 1973
Offers suggestions about explaining the use of the accusative case in Russian time expressions. (PMP)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction
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Lamendella, John T.; Selinker, Larry – Language Learning, 1979
Six tentative conclusions about the role of extrinsic feedback in interlanguage fossilization are presented and discussed in light of hypotheses made by Virgil and Oller regarding this phenomenon. Extrinsic factors are those characteristics of the learner which are oriented toward the environment and which act as the interface between the learner…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Feedback, Interlanguage, Language Patterns
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ELT Journal, 1984
Discusses four problems common to English as a second language students: (1) the use of "they" as a sex-neutral, third person singular pronoun; (2) the use of "I wish"; (3) how stress affects meaning; and (4)word pairs ending in "ate," in which the noun and verb have different pronunciations. (EKN)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
Hughes, M. N. – Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1975
This paper examines what devices a speaker of English uses to produce continuous language, and how such devices are used in English. (CLK)
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
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Lantolf, James P. – Modern Language Journal, 1976
Reviews significant endeavors in the teaching of intonation, and outlines a specific technique of the instruction of suprasegmentals. (CLK)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Intonation, Language Instruction, Language Patterns
Filipovic, Rudolf, Ed. – 1971
The fourth volume in this series contains the papers presented at the Zagreb Conference on English Contrastive Projects. They are: "Recent Center Activities in Contrastive Linguistics," by William Nemser; "The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project So Far," by Rudolf Filipovic; "The Poznan Polish-English Contrastive Project," by Jacek…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English, Hungarian
Filipovic, Rudolf, Ed. – 1971
The fifth volume in this series on Serbo-Croatian-English contrastive analysis contains seven articles. They are: "The Use of Sector Analysis in Contrastive Studies in Linguistics," by Thomas K. Adeyanju; "A Compromise System," by Rudolf Filipovic; "Case Frames and Transformations for Clause-Expanded Adjectives," by Vladimir Ivir; "Some Crucial…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Ich, V. T.; Sedlow, R. – 1975
This paper presents a comparative study of English and Vietnamese syntax. Four basic patterns are said to make up the majority of English sentences: statements (both affirmative and negative), questions (both affirmative and negative), requests, and commands. The composition of each English pattern is discussed with examples, and compared directly…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
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Plewes, S. Frank – 1975
This paper suggests methods for teaching the Russian verbs that govern what are loosely termed "objects" in oblique cases. The case government of such verbs is not necessarily an individual irregularity. Definite patterns emerge, both morphological and semantic, to facilitate grouping these verbs into classes. Russian verbs requiring genitive…
Descriptors: Classification, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar, Language Instruction
Blackshire-Belay, Carol – 1990
Foreign Workers' German (FWG) refers to the acquired German language skills of workers from various countries who were recruited to West Germany between 1955 and 1973 to fill menial, undesirable jobs. Contact between these workers and native German speakers was limited because of the nature of the foreigners' work, the tendency toward residential…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries
Faerch, Claus – 1979
To assist language researchers in their analysis of interlanguage, some values for the linguistic variables of Source Language (SL), Interlanguage (IL), and Target Language (TL) are set forth. Although the fundamental assumption underlying interlanguage research is that interlanguages are linguistic systems, it is difficult to describe the…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Interlanguage
BOWEN, J. DONALD; STOCKWELL, ROBERT P. – 1965
DESIGNED AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR PROFESSIONALS PREPARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, PLANNING COURSES, OR DEVELOPING CLASSROOM TECHNIQUES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROGRAMS, A SERIES OF STUDIES HAS BEEN PREPARED THAT CONTRASTS, IN TWO VOLUMES FOR EACH OF THE FIVE MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN THE UNITED STATES, THE SOUND AND GRAMMATICAL…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination, Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics
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Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, Ed.; And Others – 1971
The first volume of this series is divided into reports, studies, and preliminary results of work in progress. All were presented at a meeting on contrastive linguistics held in Romania. The project is intended to reveal the specificity of the structures and systems of Romanian and English with a view to comparing them and, on that basis,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1974
The sixth volume of this series contains eight contrastive studies in the syntax and semantics of English and Romanian. They are: "Criteria for the Contrastive Analysis of English Nouns," by Andrei Bantas; "Adjectives as Noun Modifiers in Post-Verbal Position," by Ioana Poenaru; "Towards a Semantic Description of 'Tense'…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adverbs, Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
Gerbault, Jeannine – 1978
This paper summarizes the results of a longitudinal study of a child native speaker of French acquiring English. The observation period covered the child's progress from age 4 years, 9 months to age 5 years, 8 months. An analysis was made of the acquisition of the interrogative and negative structures and of nine grammatical morphemes. In…
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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