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Jouravlev, Olessia; McPhedran, Mark; Hodgins, Vegas; Jared, Debra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
The aim of this project was to identify factors contributing to cross-language semantic preview benefits. In Experiment 1, Russian-English bilinguals read English sentences with Russian words presented as parafoveal previews. The gaze-contingent boundary paradigm was used to present sentences. Critical previews were cognate translations of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Translation, Semantics
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Gahraman, Mirzayeva Intizar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The study aims to analyze the distributional features of adverbial modifier of manner in two languages that are typologically and genealogically different: English and Azerbaijani. Although the issue has been focused in these languages separately from various angles including semantic, syntactic and prosodic perspectives, there is a gap in the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Semantics
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Esquivel, Orlyn Joyce D. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
Since the colonization of the Americans, Filipinos have been using English as their second language and have been accustomed to using the language alongside local languages. The centuries of the extensive contact between American English and Filipino language raises questions pertaining language change and language identity. This paper reports the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Social Media
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Collentine, Joseph – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
Initial studies on the acquisition of two Spanish copulas, "ser" and "estar", emerged from a research agenda exploring whether second language (L2) development was driven by universal mechanisms manifested in stages rather than an accumulation of entities (Rutherford, 1987). Concerning the Spanish copulas, the stages of acquisition through which…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Spanish, Spanish Speaking
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
Holley, Freda M. – 1972
This paper discusses various theories of the role of memory in vocabulary acquisition and storage. Several research models are described, and theoretical considerations and questions are presented. The lexicon is seen as an element of grammar; an understanding of lexicon organization is important in the understanding of vocabulary acquisition.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language), Information Processing, Language Instruction
Zierer, Ernesto – Lenguaje y Ciencias, 1972
This document describes a format for analyzing the information content of sentences and the language patterns that accompany particular information content. The author writes in terms of information structures, each information structure having a corresponding linguistic structure composed of distinctive features. The information structure of a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Context Clues, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
DeArmond, Richard C. – 1975
This paper discusses the English verbal inflectional system within the lexicalist framework. A lexicalist approach to syntax is one in which all syntactic grammatical relations, lexical items, and the result of transformations are subject to semantic interpretation. That is, semantic information cannot be generated by syntactic rules. A filtering…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Generative Phonology
Maley, Catherine A. – 1972
Although linguistic analysis is only indirectly useful for language teaching, it is directly useful to the language teacher. What language teachers hope to gain from linguistic studies are insights into the language and how it works and functions, so that they can make use of this information when formulating teaching techniques. With this…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Classroom Techniques, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Hammer, Petra; Monod, Madeleine – Alberta Modern Language Journal, 1976
Following a brief review of the literature on cognates, and a discussion of six arguments in favor of using cognates as a vocabulary acquisition device, a study is described which was designed to determine whether students were able to utilize English-French cognates in listening and reading comprehension in French. Seventy-four tenth grade…
Descriptors: Distinctive Features (Language), English, French, High School Students