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van Halm, Johan – 1988
Based on interviews and on questionnaires sent to EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System) "R & D Bulletin" subscribers, and the users of the EUDISED online database, this report evaluates current EUDISED activities. The report reviews the responses to the questionnaire; assesses the current situation (a period in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Long Range Planning, Online Searching
Derbyshire, Desmond C., Ed. – 1987
Four working papers in linguistics are presented. "Basic Configurations of Pragmatic Structuring" (Robert A. Dooley) presents evidence for basic or unmarked pragmatic configurations in three Brazilian languages: Topic-Comment in Mbya Guarani, Comment-Topic in Hixkaryana, and Focus-Presupposition in Xavante. "The Syllable Structure…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Greek
Hiltunen, Risto – 1984
The extensive use of clausal embedding in legal language is examined. The extent and depth of left-branching, nested, and right- branching clauses in the 1972 British Road Traffic Act are also studied. The complexity of the resulting constructions, and the problems created for comprehension are described. The analysis reveals complex sequences of…
Descriptors: Coherence, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English
Brazil, David – 1982
The concept of "prominence" in intonation is discussed. It treats the prominence of a syllable as a feature determined by the speaker separate from the word itself, and meaningful in and of itself. The decision by a speaker to assign or not assign prominence to a syllable (selectivity) is seen as related to the immediacy of spoken…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Intonation, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Tushyeh, Hanna Y. – 1986
Points of similarity and contrast between English and Modern Standard Arabic in relativization are examined. It is concluded that while the relativization process is essentially the same in both languages, they differ with respect to the relative pronoun, the agreement of the relative pronoun with its antecedent, and the appearance of the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English
Download full textAgee, Daniel; Marlett, Stephen – 1986
An analysis of indirect objects in San Jeronimo Mazatec describes the superficial characteristics of indirect objects and the constructions in which indirect objects occur. It is argued that they occur as prepositional phrases that are obligatorily incorporated into the verb in a specific way. The constructions containing indirect objects are…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Abbi, Anvita; Mishra, Awadhesh K. – 1987
A phonemic analysis of the Meitei language of Manipur, India, is presented. The vowel and consonant system is analyzed by the classical phonemic method, but with morpheme structure rules formulated according to the principles of generative phonology in order to generalize the pattern of various sounds and specify the allophonic distribution of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Distinctive Features (Language), Foreign Countries
Kuhlwein, Wolfgang – 1987
A discussion of the field of contrastive linguistics (CL) begins by defining the relationship between theoretical and applied CL in terms of the concept of finalization, which originated in the philosophy of science. Then, the historical development of CL in the United States and Europe is sketched. This development is seen as characterized by a…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language)
Aristar, Anthony – 1987
A discussion of the sources of certain language universals argues that adjective/noun constructions pattern similarly to genitive/noun and relative-noun constructions because they are typical diachronic sources for adjectivals, and that relatives and genitives have the same diachronic source and thus the same set of synchronic behavior. It is also…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Form Classes (Languages)
Gibson, Claude L. – 1981
Knowing the connections between ideas and the interrelationships among groups of ideas is a skill that can be useful throughout the writing process. Writers who are aware of the meaning relationships existing between sentences and ideas can discover the logical possibilities inherent in their topic at the prewriting stage, determine patterns for…
Descriptors: Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Higher Education, Sentence Combining
Boiarsky, Carolyn – 1981
A study and review of the revisions of professional writers reveals 11 functions of revision: (1) altering form, (2) organizing information, (3) creating transitions, (4) deleting information, (5) expanding information, (6) emphasizing information, (7) subordinating information, (8) creating immediacy, (9) improving syntactic structures, (10)…
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Language Role, Revision (Written Composition), Secondary Education
Cohen, Andrew D.; And Others – 1985
A study of the structure of the speech act known as an apology looked at the differences in linguistic strategies used by advanced nonnative English language learners and native speakers in apology behavior, and whether the differences result from the severity of the offense or the familiarity of the interlocutors. An apology is seen as consisting…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, College Students, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
Bartlett, Brendan J. – 1981
A top-level structure learning strategy is described in this paper. Topics covered in the paper are (1) strategic use of knowledge about top-level structure, including how the strategy works, the spontaneous use of the strategy, and the acquired use of the strategy; (2) fundamental steps in programs of instruction involving the top-level structure…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Knowledge Level, Learning Strategies
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1979
Two studies were undertaken to continue a line of research designed to identify the subskills of word identification that correlate most highly with reading comprehension and to develop empirically based instruments to assess those subskills. The issues studied related to the broad area of structural analysis and concerned assessment of skills in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Haskins Labs., New Haven, CT. – 1980
Research reports on the nature of speech, instrumentation for the investigation of speech, and practical applications of research are included in this status report for the July 1-December 31, 1980, period. The 19 reports deal with the following topics: (1) the structuring of language; (2) whether movements are prepared in parts; (3)…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Communication Research
