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Download full textOktavianti, Ikmi Nur – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2018
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. "gonna," "wanna," "gotta") in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are five corpora used in this study, "Corpus of…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Word Frequency
Peer reviewedFlikeid, Karin – Language and Communication, 1992
Historic linguistic consequences were studied in five separate areas of Atlantic Canada's Acadian population. Focus was on certain verbs in the third person present plural and the hypothesis that "allent" and faisent" are the result of hypercorrection. Results suggest complex reasons for their use and an indication of some social…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, French, Grammar
Peer reviewedSankoff, Gillian; Thibault, Pierrette – Langue Francaise, 1977
A study of the spoken French of 120 residents of Montreal. The researchers were interested in the linguistic and social factors influencing the use of "avoir" and "etre." Results show that this usage corresponds to a tendancy to regularize conjugations. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Language Research, Language Styles
Canale, Michael; And Others – 1977
This study examines the use of the auxiliaries "avoir" and "etre" and of the prefix "re-" in the speech of Franco-Ontarian students. It is found that the tendency to use non-standard constructions such as "j'ai arrive en retard" and "je vais remettre la roue 'back'" has its origins in historical…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, French, Language Research
Auger, Julie; Rose, Yvan – 1997
Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism
Belyazid, Fatima Zahra, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Thirty-five papers, all but one in French, presented at the conference on research in linguistics are presented here. Topics include: verb tenses in English; computerized text analysis program; study of specialized terminology; court translation in Canada; subject-verb agreement in English; bilingual editing; swearing with religious words;…
Descriptors: Adolescents, African Languages, Bilingual Education, Child Language
