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Direct linkKlee, Carol A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The role of language contact in linguistic change remains a polemic issue in the field of contact linguistics. Many researchers (Weinreich, 1953; Lefebvre, 1985; Prince, 1988; Silva-Corvalan, 1994; King, 2000; Sankoff, 2002; Labov, 2007) believe that there are limits on the types of linguistic patterns that can be transmitted across languages,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Language Patterns
Fang, Zhihui; Schleppegrell, Mary J.; Cox, Beverly E. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2006
Developing academic, or school-based, literacy poses a significant challenge for many students, because the language through which academic subjects are presented is markedly different from the social language that students use in everyday ordinary life. This article focuses on one aspect of academic language, the functions of nouns and nominal…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Nouns, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHoffer, Bates – Language Sciences, 1990
Addresses complicated categories of loanwords and their uses in Japanese, an analysis of the developing functions of loanwords; the cultural attitudes that permit borrowings in some semantic areas; and how the present process of borrowing English words has similarities to the borrowing of Chinese language and culture some 1400 years ago.…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Japanese, Language Attitudes
Download full textNilsen, Don L. F. – 1976
This paper attempts to dispel a number of misconceptions about the nature of meaning, namely that: (1) synonyms are words that have the same meanings, (2) antonyms are words that have opposite meanings, (3) homonyms are words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings, (4) converses are antonyms rather than synonyms, (5)…
Descriptors: English, English Education, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
Toglia, Michael P.; Battig, William F. – 1978
This volume contains information derived from college student ratings of a large number and variety of individual words (along with some nonwords) for seven basic semantic characteristics. The primary data are rating values for over 2800 words for seven dimensions of special significance for current research on verbal behavior and related topics.…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Patterns, Lexicology, Mathematical Linguistics
Trask, R. L. – 1995
This book introduces beginning students of linguistics at all levels and general readers to the study of language, providing an overview of key topics and an explanation of basic terms and ideas. The book is also designed to encourage the reader to think about the way language works and reconsider some popular misconceptions about language and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries
