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Lam, Katie; Chen, Xi (Becky); Deacon, S. Hélène – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Understanding text in a second language can be particularly challenging. The authors explored the contribution of morphological awareness in children's first and second languages to development in second-language reading comprehension. Critically, the authors examined the role of a skill that might be at the heart of these cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Suffixes
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Crepaldi, Davide; Rastle, Kathleen; Davis, Colin J.; Lupker, Stephen J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
There is broad consensus that printed complex words are identified on the basis of their constituent morphemes. This fact raises the issue of how the word identification system codes for morpheme position, hence allowing it to distinguish between words like "overhang" and "hangover", and to recognize that "preheat" is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Morphemes, Identification, Proximity
Beach, Matthew David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation addresses a number of issues about the grammar of Eastern Canadian Inuktitut. Inuktitut is a dialect within the Inuit dialect continuum which is a group of languages/dialects within the Eskimo-Aleut language family. (Eastern Canadian Inuktitut has an ISO 693-3 language code of "ike".) Typologically, it is an ergative…
Descriptors: Dialects, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Semantics, Foreign Countries
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Dunn, John A. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1979
Describes the connective suffixes used in Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. (AM)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies