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Cain, Kate; Towse, Andrea S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The aim was to identify the source of idiom understanding difficulties in children with specific reading comprehension failure. Method: Two groups (ns = 15) of 9- to 10-year-olds participated. One group had age-appropriate word reading and reading comprehension; the other group had age-appropriate word reading but poor reading…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Figurative Language
Miyakoda, Haruko – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Although many studies of speech errors have been presented in the literature, most have focused on errors occurring at either the segmental or feature level. Few, if any, studies have dealt with the prosodic structure of errors. This paper aims to fill this gap by taking up the issue of prosodic structure in Japanese speech errors, with a focus on…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Speech, Aphasia, Patients
Kaschak, Michael P.; Borreggine, Kristin L. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
Several recent papers have reported long-term structural priming effects in experiments where previous patterns of experience with the double object and prepositional object constructions are shown to affect later patterns of language production for those constructions. The experiments reported in this paper address the extent to which these…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Verbs, Language Processing, Experiments
Whittaker, Rachel; Llinares, Ana; McCabe, Anne – Language Teaching Research, 2011
This article presents a study of written development in English as a foreign language produced in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) environment. The texts analysed, from history classes, were collected annually over the four-year obligatory junior secondary education program from the same students (aged 12 to 16), in two state…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, State Schools, Nouns, Foreign Countries
Freeman, Geremy Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The question of whether or not linguistic sounds might convey inherent meaning has never conclusively been resolved. This is an empirical study weighing evidence for and against the existence of phonosemantics, also known as sound symbolism or iconism. Contrary to well established principles such as the arbitrary nature of the sign and the double…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Semantics, Hypothesis Testing, Interviews
Alfaraz, Gabriela G. – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2009
Simultaneous speech and turn-taking patterns vary considerably across cultures. Research on varieties of Spanish has confirmed that frequent, lengthy overlaps within and between turns are common. In this paper it is suggested that when speakers engage in simultaneous talk, they observe Grice's Cooperative Principle by adjusting their utterances so…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Nouns, Spanish, Language Variation
Cysouw, Michael; Forker, Diana – Language, 2009
The reconstruction of genealogical relationships between languages is traditionally performed through lexical comparison and the establishment of regular sound changes. The historical analysis of other aspects of linguistic structure, like syntactic patterns or the function of grammatical elements, is normally understood to depend on a previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Visualization, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
Segal, Osnat; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha; Kishon-Rabin, Liat; Ravid, Dorit – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The study examines prosodic characteristics of Hebrew speech directed to children between 0 ; 9-3 ; 0 years, based on longitudinal samples of 228,946 tokens (8,075 types). The distribution of prosodic patterns--the number of syllables and stress patterns--is analyzed across three lexical categories, distinguishing not only between open- and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Suprasegmentals, Nouns, Language Patterns
Bernolet, Sarah; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Pickering, Martin J. – Cognition, 2009
This study investigates the way in which speakers determine which aspects of an utterance to emphasize and how this affects the form of utterances. To do this, we ask whether the binding between emphasis and thematic roles persists between utterances. In one within-language (Dutch-Dutch) and three cross-linguistic (Dutch-English) structural…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistics, Persistence, Indo European Languages
Bell, Diana Calhoun; Arnold, Holly; Haddock, Rebecca – Learning Assistance Review, 2009
The goal of this research was to use politeness theory to analyze the developing tutorial relationship between students and peer tutors in a university writing center. The study monitored two pairs of tutors and students over a period of six weeks, focusing on weeks one and six. Using partial transcripts of recorded sessions along with observation…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Laboratories, Tutors, Peer Teaching
Nishimura, Amy – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Teaching within institutions that prototypically privilege the social order of language is often problematic for both genders, especially because we tend to occupy masculine lines of rhetoric. The "standards" that women adhere to are not always associated in the feminine construction, and when we question "standards," the…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Altruism, Females, Figurative Language
Li, Xiaoshi – Language Learning, 2010
With Chinese native-speaker data as the baseline, this study investigates the use of the morphosyntactic particle DE by learners of Chinese as a second language. The general patterns are as follows: (a) DE tends to be deleted more in informal speech than in formal settings; (b) higher proficiency and longer residence in China--more interactions…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Language Variation, Textbooks, Foreign Countries
Cooper, Shelly – General Music Today, 2010
Songs and stories have a strong relationship to each other and have the capacity to boost brain development, increase vocabulary, and promote future academic success. The sounds and foundational structures of reading and singing provide young children with successful pathways for advancing language skills, increasing memory, and promoting emerging…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Neurology, Brain, Language Skills
Woodfield, Helen; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2010
This paper examines the status-unequal requests of 89 advanced mixed-L1 learners and 87 British English native speakers elicited by a written discourse completion task. Significant differences were observed in all three dimensions analysed: internal and external modification, and perspective. The data demonstrate learners' overuse of zero marking…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Native Speakers, Pragmatics, College Students
Pennington, Martha C.; Lau, Lawrence; Sachdev, Itesh – Language Learning Journal, 2011
This comparative study, conducted in multicultural London, investigates the occurrence in interviews with a researcher and in constructed same-sex peer conversations of five linguistic features characteristic of London English in the speech of two groups of British-born adolescents: ethnic Bangladeshis and ethnic Chinese of Cantonese heritage. The…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Linguistics, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis