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A. Raymond Elliott – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
Linguistic tones play an important role in expressing lexical and grammatical meaning in tone languages. A small change in the pitch of a word can result in an entirely different meaning. A logical question for those who document tone languages is whether or not singers preserve linguistic tone when singing and if so, to what degree? I begin by…
Descriptors: Language Research, Intonation, Music, Singing
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Shin, Naomi Lapidus; Cairns, Helen Smith – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
To investigate the development of the NP selection process, preferences for overt or null Spanish subject pronouns were elicited from 139 children (5;09 to 15;08) and 30 adults in Mexico. Participants were told stories in which consecutive grammatical subjects shared the same referent (same-reference), or did not (switch-reference). In the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Perspective Taking, Foreign Countries