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Carnicer, Ramon – Yelmo, 1975
Points out that the Spanish "entonces," grammatically an adverb, is being used more and more as a conversational filler without real function or meaning. (Text is in Spanish.) (CK)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Componential Analysis, Etymology, Language Usage
Gauger, Hans-Martin – Meta, 1973
Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Performance, Phonemes
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Bart, Frederick B. – Language Sciences, 1973
Response to Robert A. Hall, Jr.'s article, "Why a Structural Semantics Is Impossible," Language Sciences, n21. (DD)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Componential Analysis, Concept Formation, Content Analysis
Cowart, Wayne – 1979
Problems related to the structure of the mental lexicon are considered. The single access assumption, the passive memory assumption, and the heterogeneous memory assumption are rejected in favor of the theory which assumes several active memories, each able to store expression based on only one homogenous set of abstract primitives. One lexicon…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Fought, John
Chorti, a Mayan language spoken in eastern Guatemala, is analyzed in this paper on the basis of a story text provided by an adult native speaker. A phonological description of Chorti is presented for background information; syllables, suprasegmentals, pause groups, articulation, and phonological rules are all considered. The author presents the…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Componential Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Grammar