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Su, Yujie – English Language Teaching, 2010
Collocation is practically very tough to Chinese English learners. The main reason lies in the fact that English and Chinese belong to two distinct language systems. And the deep reason is that learners tend to develop different metaphorical concept in accordance with distinct ways of thinking in Chinese. The paper, taking "absorb…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Culbertson, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates typological patterns of syntax and morphosyntax, and the role that learning biases play in constraining them. A link between learning biases and typology is integral to generative linguistics, however evidence for this connection remains minimal. Using experimental, theoretical, and mathematical tools, I provide…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Models, Form Classes (Languages), Linguistics
Caboara, Marco – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the particle "ye" in the IV century BCE Chinese Guodian manuscripts by providing a synchronic analysis of its functions and a diachronic hypothesis relating all functions to focus marking. I have subdivided the around 600 occurrences of "ye" into four main functions: focus marker, topic marker, clause connection…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Discourse Analysis
McConnell, Michele S. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Students who grow up speaking regional dialects benefit from learning code switching (CS) strategies to allow bidialectal communication across their social worlds. This rationale proposes that students' home language of Appalachian English is acceptable at home and should be preserved; however, another set of language patterns, those of Standard…
Descriptors: Teachers, Language Patterns, Code Switching (Language), English
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Hirata-Edds, Tracy – Language Learning, 2011
Metalinguistic skills may develop differently in multilingual and monolingual children. This study investigated effects of immersion in Cherokee as a second language on young children's (4;5-6;1) skills of noticing morphological forms/patterns in English, their first language, by comparing English past tense skills on two nonword and two real-word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Imitation, Monolingualism
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Rigney, Jennifer C.; Callanan, Maureen A. – Cognitive Development, 2011
Parent-child conversations are a potential source of children's developing understanding of the biological domain. We investigated patterns in parent-child conversations that may inform children about biological domain boundaries. At a marine science center exhibit, we compared parent-child talk about typical sea animals with faces (fish) with…
Descriptors: Animals, Speech Communication, Marine Biology, Cognitive Development
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Chen, Linli – English Language Teaching, 2009
There are six translation tactics in translating English idioms into Chinese: literal translation, compensatory translation, free translation, explanational translation, borrowing, integrated approach. Each tactic should be reasonably employed in the process of translating, so as to keep the flavor of the original English idioms as well as to…
Descriptors: Translation, English, Language Patterns, Chinese
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Levinson, Stephen C.; Burenhult, Niclas – Language, 2009
This short report draws attention to an interesting kind of configuration in the lexicon that seems to have escaped theoretical or systematic descriptive attention. These configurations, which we dub SEMPLATES, consist of an abstract structure or template, which is recurrently instantiated in a number of lexical sets, typically of different form…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Vocabulary Development
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Cheng, Winnie; Greaves, Chris; Sinclair, John McH.; Warren, Martin – Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper offers an analytical procedure for identifying phraseological variation within "concgrams" (Cheng et al. 2006), which are sets of words that co-occur regardless of constituency variation (e.g. AB and A * B), positional variation (e.g. AB and BA), or both. It argues that examining concgrams takes us closer to more fully appreciating and…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Identification, Language Patterns, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Chen, Mei-Hua; Huang, Chung-Chi; Huang, Shih-Ting; Chang, Jason S.; Liou, Hsien-Chin – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2014
Formulaic language is important to language acquisition; however, English language learners are often reported to have problems with formulaic expressions. Several lists of formulaic sequences have been proposed, mainly for developing teaching and testing materials. However, their limited numbers and insufficient usage information seem unable to…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Chinese, College Freshmen, Language Usage
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Janet Scull; Patricia Bremner – Babel, 2013
The development of oral language and specifically increased control over literate discourse is critical to students' ability to create and comprehend texts in the early years of schooling and beyond. For students with home languages that differ from the forms of language used in school, the development of oral language through carefully designed…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Literacy Education, Indigenous Populations, Intervention
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Warren, Elizabeth; Miller, Jodie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This paper explores the outcomes of the first year of the implementation of a mathematics program ("Representations, oral language and engagement in Mathematics": RoleM) which is framed upon research relating to effectively supporting young Indigenous students' learning. The sample comprised 230 Indigenous students (average age 5.76…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Multiple Regression Analysis, Oral Language
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Dastjerdi, Hossein Vahid; A'lipour, Javad – English Language Teaching, 2010
A great deal of attention has been paid to the role of idiomatic language in learning a second language. It has been recently recognized by some second language researchers (e.g. Danesi, 2003) that second language speakers may sound unnatural if their speech is devoid of idiomatic language. This article is an attempt to see how the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Gerlach, Sharon Ruth – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines three processes affecting consonants in child speech: harmony (long-distance assimilation) involving major place features as in "coat" [kouk]; long-distance metathesis as in "cup" [p[wedge]k]; and initial consonant deletion as in "fish" [is]. These processes are unattested in adult phonology, leading to proposals for…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Phonemes, Phonology, Language Acquisition
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Alvord, Scott M. – Hispania, 2010
The interrogative intonation of Cubans and Cuban Americans living in Miami is investigated. Two different intonation patterns are used in this variety of Spanish to convey absolute interrogative meaning: one with a falling final contour, as has been observed in Cuban Spanish, and one with a rising final contour, as is used in American English and…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Intonation, Cubans, Spanish
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