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Pan, Ning; Roussel, Nancye – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
The structure of /s/-initial clusters is debated in developmental phonology. Pan and Snyder (2004) took the Government Phonology (GP) framework and proposed that production of /s/-initial clusters requires the positive setting of two binary parameters [+/-Branching rhyme (BR)] and [+/-Magic empty nucleus (MEN)] and the initial /s/ is treated as a…
Descriptors: Phonology, Prediction, Young Children, Delayed Speech
Hillman, Sara Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Drawing on Lave and Wenger's (1991) and Wenger's (1998) "communities of practice" (CoP) framework, this study explores the shared repertoire of humor practices in the creation of community within the context of a culturally diverse and multilevel adult Arabic language classroom consisting of two native speakers, five heritage language learners…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Video Technology, Semitic Languages, Language Patterns
Day-Vines, Norma L.; Barto, Heather H.; Booker, Beverly L.; Smith, Kim V.; Barna, Jennifer; Maiden, Brian S.; Zegley, Linda; Felder, Monique T. – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
African American English (AAE) refers to the systematic, rule-governed linguistic patterns of found among African Americans. This article provides an overview of AAE. More specifically, the article enumerates the historical underpinnings associated with AAE, identifies a representative set of AAE characteristics, reviews relevant research, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Bias, School Counseling, School Counselors
Poplack, Shana; Dion, Nathalie – Language, 2009
Because many of the forms participating in inherent variability are not attested in the standard language, they are often construed as evidence of change. We test this assumption by confronting the standard, as instantiated by a unique corpus covering five centuries of French grammatical injunctions, with data on the evolution of spontaneous…
Descriptors: Speech, Language Variation, Grammar, Multivariate Analysis
Hastings, Sally O. – International Journal of Listening, 2009
This paper argues that the concept of E-Prime (E') holds practical benefits to effective listening for students of interpersonal communication. In advancing this argument, the paper includes a concise review of relevant literature on E-Prime, defensiveness, and conflict, with particular emphasis on verbal aggression. The literature demonstrates…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Listening Skills, Conflict, Verbal Communication
Colleman, Timothy – Language Sciences, 2009
Semantic accounts of verb pattern alternations often rely on observations about "verb disposition": the preference of verbs with particular lexical semantic characteristics for one of two competing constructions is taken as a clue to the semantic differences between the two constructions. For instance, it has been observed with regard to the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Indo European Languages
Wong, Anita M.-Y.; Chow, Dorcas C.-C.; McBride-Cheng, Catherine; Stokes, Stephanie F. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
To express object transfer, Cantonese-speakers use a "ditransitive" ([V-R-T] or [V-T-R] where V = Verb, T = Theme, R = Recipient), or a more complex prepositional/serial-verb (P/SV) construction. Clausal elements in Cantonese datives can be optional (resulting in "full" versus "non-full" forms) or appear in variant…
Descriptors: Verbs, Adults, Toddlers, Sino Tibetan Languages
Branigan, Holly P.; Pickering, Martin J.; McLean, Janet F.; Cleland, Alexandra A. – Cognition, 2007
We report three experiments that investigated whether the linguistic behavior of participants in a dialogue is affected by their role within that interaction. All experiments were concerned with the way in which speakers choose between syntactic forms with very similar meanings. Theories of dialogue assume that speakers address their contributions…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Patterns, Experiments, Coding
Chan, Yen-Ling; Marinellie, Sally A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
The purpose of this study was to expand the current literature on word definitions by focusing on definitions of idioms provided by several age groups. Preadolescents, young adolescents, older adolescents, and adults wrote definitions for 10 frequently used idioms and also rated their familiarity with the idiomatic expressions. Participants'…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Definitions, Figurative Language, Familiarity
Markus, Keith A. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2008
A theoretical variable such as integrity, conscientiousness, or academic honesty may correspond to either a construct or a concept, but the standard idiom does not distinguish the two. One can describe the difference between constructs and concepts in terms of set theory. Constructs extend over actual cases, whereas concepts extend over both…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Integrity, Language Patterns, Psychometrics
Onishi, Kristine H.; Murphy, Gregory L.; Bock, Kathryn – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Three cued-recall experiments examined the effect of category typicality on the ordering of words in sentence production. Past research has found that typical items tend to be mentioned before atypical items in a phrase--a pattern usually associated with lexical variables (like word frequency), and yet typicality is a conceptual variable.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Long Term Memory, Word Order
Dziugis, Mary Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2010
What are the chances of a dyad of Spanish-speaking strangers using informal address in casual, initial interactions in Buenos Aires, Argentina, today? To discover the pattern(s) of contemporary address, the Principal Investigator (PI) conducted a sociolinguistic experiment focusing on strangers' initial interactions to minimize the influence of…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Participant Observation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Evans, Stephen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2010
This article explores the impact of Hong Kong's transition from British colony to Chinese Special Administrative Region on patterns of language use in the domain of professional employment. In particular, it presents the findings of a large-scale multifaceted investigation into the roles of Putonghua, Cantonese, written Chinese and English in the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
Mei, Qiaozhu – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With the dramatic growth of text information, there is an increasing need for powerful text mining systems that can automatically discover useful knowledge from text. Text is generally associated with all kinds of contextual information. Those contexts can be explicit, such as the time and the location where a blog article is written, and the…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Language Patterns, Pattern Recognition
Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies