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Tam, Hugo Wing-Yu; Tsang, Samuel C. S. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper proposes a tripartite model describing the lexical categories across different registers and levels of formality in the Cantonese language in contemporary Hong Kong: (1) native Cantonese words; (2) Sino-Cantonese words, and (3) Anglo-Cantonese words. Examples of authentic Cantonese use were used to illustrate the histories and etymology…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Language Variation, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology
Yurtbasi, Metin – Online Submission, 2016
The voiceless allophones of (alveolo) palatal stop consonant [c] and velar stop consonant [k] of the phoneme /k/ represented by the letter "K" exists in almost all languages of the world. Which of these will be sounded in speech is determined by the type of the vowel that are adjacent to them. In Turkish, the dark variant [k] occurs…
Descriptors: Turkish, Speech Communication, Pronunciation, Phonemes
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McKeown, Margaret Gentile – Language Arts, 1979
Describes a language arts project which used students' own first names as the project theme. (DD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Etymology, Language Acquisition, Language Arts