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O'Shannessy, Carmel – Journal of Child Language, 2011
The study examines strategies multilingual children use to interpret grammatical relations, focusing on their two primary languages, Lajamanu Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri. Both languages use mixed systems for indicating grammatical relations. In both languages ergative-absolutive case-marking indicates core arguments, but to different extents in…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Sentences, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)

Caspers, Johanneke – Language and Speech, 2000
Describes an experimental attempt to verify meaning hypotheses for four Dutch single-accent pitch patterns as postulated in the linguistic literature. Results show a distinct effect of orientation on appropriateness of two of the investigated pitch accent types; the other two pitch accent types are associated with predicted context types well…
Descriptors: Dutch, Grammar, Intonation, Language Patterns

Klamer, Marian – Language, 2002
Reports on a study of the native lexicon of two genetically unrelated languages: Kambera and Dutch. Focuses on the expressive elements. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dutch, Language Patterns, Semantics
Miner, Kenneth L. – 1992
This paper argues that due to the facts of accent shift, Japanese accent should itself be interpreted as pitch rather than as a diacritic on the basis of which pitch patterns are imposed by rule. The solution offered is tentative and concerns only Tokyo Japanese. It is suggested that consideration of accent in non-Tokyo dialects will strengthen…
Descriptors: Dialects, Foreign Countries, Japanese, Language Patterns
Kim, Seongchan – Journal of Japan-Korea Association of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Examines age of acquisition of multiple wh-questions in English and Korean, whether there is any difference between English and Korean in terms of the stage at which the multiple wh-question pattern emerges, and whether there is any difference in the degree of difficulty of various multiple wh-questions in Korean and English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Age, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Korean

Levy, Yonata; Vainikka, Anne – Language Acquisition, 2000
Examines a mixed pattern of subject omission in Hebrew. Longitudinal data is presented from three children whose first and only language is Hebrew. Findings show very early acquisition of the null subject system. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Hebrew, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Longitudinal Studies

Katz, Aya – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1998
Presents an example of a grammaticalization type not conforming to normal expectations of unidirectionality. The Biblical Hebrew third person singular pronouns are grammaticalizations from the verb root "to be." In Modern Hebrew, the zero copula in equative clauses has been replaced by these pronouns, producing the progression: copula to pronoun…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Grammar, Hebrew, Language Patterns
Plumlee, Marilyn – 1995
This paper provides an analysis of the manual and non-manual pronouns identified in Mexican Sign Language (MSL) used by a female speaker in 1993, discusses syntactic uses of each type, and examines pronoun deletion. MSL has two distinct modes of expressing pronominal relationships: manual pronouns (including indexical, incorporated, classifiers,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Pronouns

Teixeira, Elizabeth Reis; Davis, Barbara L. – Language and Speech, 2002
Compares sound patterns in the speech of two Brazilian-Portuguese speaking children with early production patterns in English-learning children as well as English and Brazilian-Portuguese characteristics. Results emphasize the primacy of production system effects in early acquisition, although even the earliest word forms show evidence of…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Language Patterns, Phonology

Gavarro, Anna – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
Reports on bilingual acquisition of syntax. Draws on data from a bilingual English-Dutch child whose word order patterns testify to the fact that movement never occurs beyond the target and when deviant word orders are attested they result from lack of raising. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Dutch, English

Cardoso, Walcir – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Offers an optimality theoretic account for the phonological process of across-word regressive assimilation (AWRA) in Picard, a Gallo-Romance dialect spoken in the Picardie region in Northern France and Southern Belgium. Focuses on the varieties spoken in the Vimeu region of France. Examines one particular topic in the analysis of AWRA: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory

Tai, James; Wang, Lianqing – Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, 1990
A pilot study attempting to determine the feasibility and value of a cognition-based study of classifiers in Chinese demonstrated that the use of the classifier "tiao" was not an arbitrary linguistic device of categorization, but represented some type of human categorization based on an imputed salient perceptual property of extension of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Patterns, Language Research

Evans, Nicholas; Wilkins, David – Language, 2000
Tests earlier claims about the universality of patterns of polysemy and semantic extension in the domain of perception verbs. Utilizing data from a broad range of Australian languages, two hypothesized universals are addressed: Viberg's (1994) proposed unidirectional pattern of extension from higher to lower sensory modalities and Sweeter's (1990)…
Descriptors: Australian Aboriginal Languages, Cognitive Processes, Language Patterns, Language Universals

Eid, Mushira – Al-Arabiyya, 1988
Examines the syntactic aspects of code-switching from Egyptian to standard Arabic, as displayed in radio and television interviews and panel discussions. The process does not proceed randomly but is governed by principles dependent on switch position, type of category involved at the switch position, and language variety. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Code Switching (Language), Language Patterns, Nonstandard Dialects

Besnier, Niko – Language in Society, 1989
Examines the organization and function of information-withholding sequences, a conversational strategy used by participants in gossip interaction on Nukulaelae, a Polynesian Central Pacific atoll. Withholding sequences illustrate how ambiguity and repairs can be exploited to meet the communicative demands of particular interactional contexts. (62…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns, Malayo Polynesian Languages