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Jinyoung Jo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Individual speakers' speech patterns differ from one another, despite presumably similar language input. What are the sources of this individual variability? In this dissertation, I explore sources of individual differences in pronunciation of coronal obstruents (/s/, /t[superscript h]/, /c[superscript h]/, /c/) at the ends of nouns in Korean.…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Phonology, Articulation (Speech), Korean
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Raksangob Wijitsopon – rEFLections, 2025
In the age when environmental sustainability is among the chief concerns and goals of communities around the world, a number of linguistic studies have been conducted to illuminate the roles of language in protection and destruction of ecological systems. Most of the studies, however, focus on written and/or formal discourses. The present study…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Conservation (Environment)
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Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle – Language Awareness, 2019
Drawing on unique observational data from police training with child volunteers, this study evaluates the linguistic patterns used by officers for transmitting complex, legally-binding information to children during the opt-out procedure (which determines how children's evidence is presented in court). It is shown that while the officers realise…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Language Patterns, Police, Evidence
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Derakhshan, Ali; Karimian Shirejini, Roghayeh – SAGE Open, 2020
Inasmuch as the fact that writing is a cognitively demanding task and as a step toward overcoming some of the barriers English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners face during writing performance, this study attempted to investigate Iranian EFL learners' perceptions toward the most common writing difficulties. To this end, 120 Iranian EFL learners…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Difficulties
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Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Teaching, 2016
Interactive alignment is a phenomenon whereby interlocutors adopt and re-use each other's language patterns in the course of authentic interaction. According to the interactive alignment model, originally proposed by Pickering & Garrod (2004), this linguistic coordination is one way in which interlocutors achieve understanding in dialogue,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction, Pronunciation
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Boberg, Charles – World Englishes, 2012
The variety of English spoken by about half a million people in the Canadian province of Quebec is a minority language in intensive contact with French, the local majority language. This unusual contact situation has produced a unique variety of English which displays many instances of French influence that distinguish it from other types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Borrowing, Language Role, French
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Önen, Serap – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The growth of English into a lingua franca has inevitably created linguistic deviations and innovations in the use of English. These emerging uses that result from the needs and preferences of speakers whose mother tongues are all different can be broadly identified as lexico-grammatical and pronunciation features and they compose one of the main…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009
This contribution assesses in quantitative terms frequent collocates and major senses of "between" and "through" in the corpus of Cameroonian English (CCE), the corpus of East-African (Kenya and Tanzania) English which is part of the International Corpus of English (ICE) project (ICE-EA), and the London Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpus…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Terry, Robert M. – 1978
A glossary of commonly used grammatical terms that would be useful to students and teachers of French is presented here. Although not complete, it offers basic definitions in English of grammatical forms and functions as well as examples in French of each term defined. The definitions cover parts of speech, grammatical functions, sentences,…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Dictionaries, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Hancioglu, Nilgun; Neufeld, Steven; Eldridge, John – English for Specific Purposes, 2008
This article describes two complementary research projects into lexical patterning and frequency in general and academic English. The research suggests that treating current popularly used wordlists such as the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic Word List (AWL) as distinct constructs is of questionable merit. Rather, there are strong…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Academic Discourse
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Egi, Takako – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Researchers have claimed that recasts might be ambiguous as feedback. Because recasts serve a dual function, as both feedback and conversational response, learners might not always interpret them as feedback (e.g., Lyster & Ranta, 1997). This study explores how learners interpret recasts they notice (as responses to content, negative evidence,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Elerick, Charles – 1977
The internalized grammar of the bilingual is different from that of a monolingual. The bilingual has, in addition to the entries that are proper to each of the two languages he speaks, certain union entries. These are extensive in the case of the Spanish/English bilingual since there are many items in the two languages that manifest systematic…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Generative Phonology
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Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, Ed.; And Others – 1971
The first volume of this series is divided into reports, studies, and preliminary results of work in progress. All were presented at a meeting on contrastive linguistics held in Romania. The project is intended to reveal the specificity of the structures and systems of Romanian and English with a view to comparing them and, on that basis,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, English
Griffin, Peg – Linguistic Reporter, 1974
This column examines the term "variable rules," which accounts for patterning in language. Variable rules can show variation in the structural description and/or in the process involved in the rule. (SW)
Descriptors: Definitions, Grammar, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory
Salazar, Robert J. – 1967
This manual has been developed to supplement the drills in Units 1 through 15 of the FSI "French Basic Course," or to substitute for them. Designed as a companion piece, the materials do not stand on their own but must be used in conjunction with the dialogues, grammatical notes and instructions in "French Basic Course", to which the numbered…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Literary), French, Grammar, Instructional Materials
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