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Pupipat, Apisak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
This study examined written/formal register based on happilyever-after women's fiction conventional blurbs. In particular, the 80 blurbs were equally divided into two types: the classic and mass-marketed. Biber et al. (2021) was used as the framework to extract features to respond to the two research questions: What were the top written/formal…
Descriptors: Females, Novels, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure
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Gheitury, Amer; Sahraee, Ahmad Hosein; Hoseini, Maryam – Deafness and Education International, 2012
Studies carried out to support the existence of a critical period for language acquisition have concentrated mainly on the case of being in total deprivation from language contact, and in particular deprivation from auditory input in the entire time span before puberty. While arguing for a useful distinction between early and late critical…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Acquisition, Written Language, Females
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Spencer, Elizabeth; Craig, Hugh; Ferguson, Alison; Colyvas, Kim – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
This study investigated the stability of propositional density (PD) in written texts, as this aspect of language shows promise as an indicator and as a predictor of language decline with ageing. This descriptive longitudinal study analysed written texts obtained from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women's Health in which participants were…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Intervals, Females, Written Language
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Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Samani, Behrouz Nouri – International Education Studies, 2011
This is a study with descriptive hypothesis-testing design investigating the true nature of L2 grammatical proficiency via focusing on its component parts. It examines the performance of 60 female EFL learners between 19 and 30 years of age at 2 proficiency levels using 2 types of computerized Grammaticality Judgement tasks in different orders…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)