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Palacas, Arthur L. – College English, 2001
Considers if American Ebonics is a different language from English or if it is a dialect of English. Discusses how American Ebonics relates to the larger Ebonics picture. Focuses on the grammatical patterns of Ebonics that diverge the most from standard English. Addresses pedagogical implications. (SC)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Communication Research, Cultural Differences, Grammar
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Maschler, Yael – International Journal of Bilingualism, 2000
Provides a detailed voyage into the bilingualism of two Israeli Hebrew-English bilinguals. Compares their patterns of discourse marker employment at two points in their lifetime, twelve years apart. Finds that after 12 years, cognitive and discourse markers show further grammaticization quantitatively, whereas interpersonal discourse markers show…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis
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Hartnett, Carolyn G. – Southwest Journal of Linguistics, 1994
Analyzes functional linguistic variables (sentence beginnings, frequency of verb types, material between subject and verb, end-sentence cohesion patterns) in hard news and human interest stories in "The Houston Post." Results supported functional theories about word order. Proportions of verb types in news stories differed from those in…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Journalism, Language Patterns
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Wasa, Atsuko – Hispania, 2002
The adverbial phrase "a lo mejor" (at best) does not take the subjunctive, although other adverbial expressions of possibility may be followed by either indicative or subjunctive. Examines statements co-occurring with "a lo mejor" from the viewpoint of statement and mood, taking into account communicative discourse function. The study shows that…
Descriptors: Adverbs, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns, Language Usage
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Kim, Jong Shil; Kim, Sung-Hee – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2001
Investigates the general intonation patterns of Korean speakers when they speak English declarative sentences. Findings show the pitch accent often falls on the last syllable of the phonological word in focus, and that Korean subjects exhibit a distinct tonal pattern for phrases similar to the low-high-low-high tone sequence of Korean accentual…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Intonation, Korean
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Heath, Shirley Brice – Harvard Educational Review, 2000
Linguistics research, including studies of classroom discourse and social patterns of language, seeks to identify the functions of language in learning situations. Future educational researchers need grounding in linguistics and other disciplines related to understanding the context of language use. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ninio, Anat – Journal of Child Language, 1999
Investigated the first verbs to participate in verb-object and subject-verb-object combinations and the temporal parameters of the spread of these combinations over different verbs, observing longitudinally young children acquiring English and Hebrew. Results indicated that the more verbs children already knew to combine in a certain pattern, the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Hebrew, Language Acquisition
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Tagliamonte, Sali; Hudson, Rachel – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1999
Studies the quotative system of contemporary British and Canadian youth. Multivariate analysis of nearly 1300 quotative verbs demonstrates that the innovative form "be like" is productive in both Canada and Britain. Traditional quotatives such as "say,""go,""think" are used according to somewhat different…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
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Seedhouse, Paul – TESL-EJ, 1995
Presents reasons why the development of a methodology for the description, analysis, and evaluation of second-language classroom interaction would be desirable. L2 classroom interaction is unique in that linguistic forms are the goal as well as the vehicle of instruction, and the linguistic patterns of interaction produced by learners are linked…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Interaction, Language Patterns
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Csomay, Eniko – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2004
The primary goal of this study is to identify intra-textual linguistic variation in university classroom talk, applying corpus-based techniques to the analysis. First, based on the automatically identified vocabulary patterns in classroom talk a large number of class sessions are segmented into smaller units of analysis. Second, the co-occurring…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Classroom Communication, Language Variation, Higher Education
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Regier, Terry; Gahl, Susanne – Cognition, 2004
Syntactic knowledge is widely held to be partially innate, rather than learned. In a classic example, it is sometimes argued that children know the proper use of anaphoric "one," although that knowledge could not have been learned from experience. Lidz et al. [Lidz, J., Waxman, S., & Freedman, J. (2003). What infants know about syntax but couldn't…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Syntax, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Development
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Bock, Kathryn; Eberhard, Kathleen M.; Cutting, J. Cooper – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
The major targets of number agreement in English are pronouns and verbs. To examine the factors that control pronoun number and to test pronouns against a psycholinguistic account of how verb number arises during language production, we varied the meaningful and grammatical number properties of agreement controllers and examined the impact of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Sentence Structure, English
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Ledesma, Heloise Marie L.; Morris, Robin D. – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2005
The pattern of language preference in a simultaneous bilingual (Filipino-English) population was examined, including changes in the pattern of preference over time. Participants were 81 Filipino boys (Mean age=6 years, 2 months) recruited from two schools in the Philippines. A language preference checklist was completed by the parents of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Language Patterns, Kindergarten
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Qualls, Constance Dean; Lantz, Jennifer M.; Pietrzyk, Rose M.; Blood, Gordon W.; Hammer, Carol Scheffner – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2004
Adolescents with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) often interpret idioms literally. When idioms are provided in an enriched context, comprehension is compromised further because of the LBLD student's inability to assign multiple meanings to words, assemble and integrate information, and go beyond a local referent to derive a global,…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Figurative Language, Adolescents, Reading Skills
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Tamaoka, Katsuo; Sakai, Hiromu; Kawahara, Jun-ichiro; Miyaoka, Yayoi; Lim, Hyunjung; Koizumi, Masatoshi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2005
The present study investigated scrambling effects on the processing of Japanese sentences and priority information used among thematic roles, case particles and grammatical functions. Reaction times for correct sentence decisions were significantly prolonged for scrambled active sentences with transitive verbs in the first experiment and with…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentence Structure, Verbs, Grammar
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