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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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Matsuda, Kenjiro – Language Variation and Change, 1993
Analogical leveling in progress of a potential suffix in Tokyo Japanese is analyzed within a quantitative model. The phenomenon is shown to be controlled by five factors: sociological variable complex, verb stem length, verb conjugation pattern, the following inflectional form, and embeddedness of the clause containing the suffix. (Contains 70…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Usage, Predictor Variables