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Edwards, J.; Jacobsen, M. – Language in Society, 1987
Differential evaluations of speech usually occur along the standard-nonstandard dimension. Standard accent rates highly in regard to status and competence but low on the dimensions of integrity and attractiveness. In a Canadian context, however, a regional standard (mainland Nova Scotia) compared favorably or equally in all dimensions to other…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, English, Language Attitudes
Jull, Douglas – TESL Talk, 1987
Provides an inventory of traditional techniques used in the teaching of pronunciation of English as a second language. Most of the techniques are production-oriented, for their purpose is to improve production of spoken English. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), English (Second Language), Intonation, Language Fluency
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Tyler, Andrea; And Others – World Englishes, 1988
A discourse analysis of videotaped teaching demonstrations by 18 Korean and Chinese teaching assistants reveals these non-native speakers of English lack the mastery of those cues, such as prosody and topicalization, that allow native speaker/listeners to perceive intended relationships among the ideas presented. (DJD)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Coblin, W. South – Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1986
The rhyming practices of Sima Xiangru and Wang Bao, early and mid-western Han poets of the Shu area, reveal details about the finals of their languages. Comparisons are made of similarities and differences of their dialects to that of a later compatriot, Yang Xiong. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Chinese, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics
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Anderson, Raquel; Smith, Bruce L. – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Phonetic and phonological analysis of spontaneous speech of six 2-year-old monolingual Puerto Rican Spanish-learning children revealed several sound usage patterns similar to those found in English and other language-learning children, supporting the claim that certain universal patterns exist in phonological development. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Distinctive Features (Language), Language Acquisition
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Jeremiah, Milford A. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1987
Analysis of essays by Black students in an urban community college demonstrates that some errors in adult Black students' writing cannot be analyzed merely within the traditional hierarchy of rules for writing. Consideration of sociological factors is germane to an evaluation of students' writing ability. (BJV)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Shaw, Risa – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Identifies indicators of register or style in selected portions of two lectures presented in American Sign Language, and in the interpretations of each made by two interpreters. The indicators used are speaking rate, pausing, syntax, intonation, and lexical choice. Transcripts of data are included in Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deaf Interpreting, Discourse Analysis
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Dabene, Louise; Billiez, Jacqueline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The bilingual speech of members of Spanish, Portuguese, and Algerian communities in France was examined, and a model proposed for classification of code-switching according to speakers' intentions and the dynamics of the interaction. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Communication Skills
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Rudser, Steven Fritsch – Sign Language Studies, 1986
The performance of two sign language interpreters in interpreting and transliterating two English texts in 1973 and again in 1985 was analyzed. Both interpreters significantly increased their use of four linguistic features of American Sign Language: classifiers; rhetorical questions; noun-adjective word order; and nonmanual negation. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Body Language, Classification, Deaf Interpreting
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Spencer, Andrew – Journal of Linguistics, 1986
Presents: (1) the basic facts of vowel-zero alternations and palatalization in Polish; (2) a nonlinear account of the vowel-zero alternations; (3) a reanalysis of palatalization facts in terms of morpholexical rules; and (4) speculations relating to learnability considerations and the nature of linguistic theory construction. (CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Czech
Hall, Dean G. – Technical Writing Teacher, 1986
Argues that comparing standard English usage to systems of standardization students are familiar with from their technical training forces technical writing students to understand the need for consistent signaling in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and other language conventions. Includes an example from early American literature written in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Higher Education, Language Patterns
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Stevens, Kathleen C. – Reading Horizons, 1985
Analyzes the language of five popular children's shows on public television. Suggests that the public television shows provide a superior language model than that of commercial television. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Content Analysis, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
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Goodman, Kenneth S.; Bird, Lois Bridges – Research in the Teaching of English, 1984
Describes and examines the word choice and frequency in six tests and raises questions about the use of word lists and controlled vocabulary in producing basal readers, judging and manipulating readability of texts, and building vocabulary. (HOD)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Cohesion (Written Composition), Connected Discourse, Language Patterns
Swierzbin, Bonnie – 1996
Phrasal verbs occur frequently in written and spoken English and may be difficult for non-native speakers to understand and produce, particularly when parts of the phrasal verb should be separated and when they should be adjacent. The study reported here analyzes natural data in context to determine whether the word order of the parts of a…
Descriptors: English, English (Second Language), Grammar, Instructional Materials
Matras, Yaron, Ed.; Bakker, Peter, Ed.; Kyuchukov, Hristo, Ed. – 1997
Papers on typology and dialects of the Romani language include: "Athematic Morphology in Romani: The Borrowing of a Borrowing Pattern" (Peter Bakker); "Towards a Morphology-Based Typology of Romani" (Viktor Elsik); "The Typology of Case Relations and Case Layer Distribution in Romani" (Yaron Matras); "Object…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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