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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Bylund, Emanuel – Cognitive Science, 2013
In this article, we explore whether cross-linguistic differences in grammatical aspect encoding may give rise to differences in memory and cognition. We compared native speakers of two languages that encode aspect differently (English and Swedish) in four tasks that examined verbal descriptions of stimuli, online triads matching, and memory-based…
Descriptors: Swedish, English, Native Language, Comparative Analysis
Lee, Hyunjung – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The phonetics and phonology of the Kyungsang dialect of Korean is distinct from those of the standard Seoul dialect with regard to segments and lexical pitch. However, whether the distinctive phonetics and phonology of Kyungsang Korean are maintained by younger speakers is questionable due to the increased exposure to Seoul Korean and the…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Korean, Dialects
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Wyman, Leisy T. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2013
Few studies ethnographically detail how Indigenous young people's mobility intersects with sociolinguistic transformation in an interconnected world. Drawing on a decade-long study of youth and language contact, I analyze Yup'ik young people's migration in relation to emerging language ideologies and patterns of language use in "Piniq,"…
Descriptors: Youth, Alaska Natives, Language Patterns, Ideology
Al-Aqarbeh, Rania – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Previous research on finiteness has been dominated by the studies in tensed languages, e.g. English. Consequently, finiteness has been identified with tense. The traditional definition influences the morphological, semantic, and syntactic characterization of finiteness which has also been equated with tense and its realization. The present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Syntax, Classification, Linguistics
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Hollman, Liivi; Sutrop, Urmas – Sign Language Studies, 2011
The article is written in the tradition of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's theory of basic color terms. According to this theory there is a universal inventory of eleven basic color categories from which the basic color terms of any given language are always drawn. The number of basic color terms varies from 2 to 11 and in a language having a fully…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Vision Tests, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
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DiJulio, Betsy – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2011
In this article, the author describes an art project wherein students make fanciful connections between art and medicine. This project challenges students to interpret "ear idioms" (e.g. "blow it out your ear," "in one ear and out the other") by relying almost entirely on realistic ear drawings, the placement of them, marks, and values. In that…
Descriptors: Human Body, Freehand Drawing, Studio Art, High School Students
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Reuterskiold, Christina; Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2013
This study explored retention of idioms and novel (i.e. newly created or grammatically generated) expressions in English-speaking girls following exposure only once during a conversation. Our hypothesis was that idioms, because of their inherent holistic, nonliteral and social characteristics, are acquired differently and more rapidly than novel…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Figurative Language, Familiarity, Females
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Schmerse, Daniel; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Journal of Child Language, 2013
In this article we report two studies: a detailed longitudinal analysis of errors in "wh"-questions from six German-learning children (age 2 ; 0-3 ; 0) and an analysis of the prosodic characteristics of "wh"-questions in German child-directed speech. The results of the first study demonstrate that German-learning children…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Young Children, German, Language Acquisition
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Kitao, S. Kathleen; Kitao, Kenji – Research-publishing.net, 2013
Data-driven learning (DDL) is an inductive approach to language learning in which students study examples of authentic language and use them to find patterns of language use. This inductive approach to learning has the advantages of being learner-centered, encouraging hypothesis testing and learner autonomy, and helping develop learning skills.…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Personal Autonomy
Yakup, Mahire – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Some syllables are louder, longer and stronger than other syllables at the lexical level. These prominent prosodic characteristics of certain syllables are captured by suprasegmental features including fundamental frequency, duration and intensity. A language like English uses fundamental frequency, duration and intensity to distinguish stressed…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Stress Variables, Syllables, Phonology
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Boutte, Gloria Swindler; Johnson, George L., Jr. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2013
Educators often do not recognize biliteracy and bidialectalism in African American Language (AAL) speakers. Chronicling the experiences of twin four/five-year old AAL and emergent Standard English speakers, we discuss the importance of recognizing and building on the routines and identities of African American children and families. We present…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, African American Children, Written Language, Language Patterns
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Herbert, John C. – JALT CALL Journal, 2014
Separating text into meaningful language chunks, as with visual-syntactic text formatting, helps readers to process text more easily and language learners to recognize grammar and syntax patterns more quickly. Evidence of this exists in studies on native and non-native English speakers. However, recent studies question the roll of VSTF in certain…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Büyükikiz, K. Kaan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2014
The purpose of this study is to learn about the impact of dictation practice on B1 level Turkish as a foreign language learners' writing skills. In this study, a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design with control group was used. The study was carried out with 24 B1 level students enrolled in Gaziantep University Turkish and Foreign Languages…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Second Language Learning, Verbal Communication
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Geluso, Joe; Yamaguchi, Atsumi – ReCALL, 2014
Corpus linguistics has established that language is highly patterned. The use of patterned language has been linked to processing advantages with respect to listening and reading, which has implications for perceptions of fluency. The last twenty years has seen an increase in the integration of corpus-based language learning, or data-driven…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics, Language Processing
Tubino Blanco, Mercedes – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation explores the mechanisms behind the linguistic expression of causation in English, Hiaki (Uto-Aztecan) and Spanish. Pylkkanen's (2002, 2008) analysis of causatives as dependent on the parameterization of the functional head v[subscript CAUSE] is chosen as a point of departure. The studies conducted in this dissertation confirm…
Descriptors: Syntax, American Indian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, English
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