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Resonance as an Applied Predictor of Cross-Cultural Interaction: Constructional Priming in Mandarin and American English Interaction
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Tantucci, Vittorio; Wang, Aiqing – Applied Linguistics, 2022
In Dialogic syntax (cf. Du Bois 2014; Tantucci et al. 2018), naturalistic interaction is inherently grounded in resonance, viz. the catalytic activation of affinities across turns (Du Bois and Giora 2014). Resonance occurs dynamically when interlocutors creatively coconstruct utterances that are formally and phonetically similar to the utterance…
Descriptors: Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Prediction, Mandarin Chinese
'Cracking a Strange Veiled Code': Language Learning Experiences of North Americans in South Asia
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Perera, Kaushalya – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Memoirs and autobiographical writing on language learning provide perspectives on migration and residence in North America and Europe for the most part, where struggle and loss are some of the recurrent themes (Aneta Pavlenko 2001a; Besemeres 2004; Kinginger 2004a). An unaddressed aspect of foreign language learning remains the 'reverse'…
Descriptors: North Americans, Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Females
The Impact of Race on Speech Perception and Accentedness Judgements in Racially Diverse and Non-Diverse Groups
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Kutlu, Ethan; Tiv, Mehrgol; Wulff, Stefanie; Titone, Debra – Applied Linguistics, 2022
"Standard" varieties are often perceived as morally superior compared with "nonstandard" varieties (Hill 2008). Consequently, these differences lead to ideologies that racialize "nonstandard" varieties (Rosa 2016), and increase the negative stereotypes towards "nonstandard" varieties (Giles and Watson 2013).…
Descriptors: Race, Standard Spoken Usage, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
Elastic "I Think": Stretching over L1 and L2
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Zhang, Grace Q.; Sabet, Peyman G. P. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
While there has been insightful research on the commonly used expression "I think" (IT), this study introduces a non-conventional and innovative conception of elasticity (Zhang 2011), bringing together several properties of IT. Drawn on large-scale naturally occurring classroom data with a rare combination of linguistically and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Native Language, North American English
Writing Differences in Teacher Performance Assessments: An Investigation of African American Language and Edited American English
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Szpara, Michelle Y.; Wylie, E. Caroline – Applied Linguistics, 2008
Differential performance results occur when a specific population subgroup achieves a passing rate which is significantly lower than that of the normative reference group. African Americans do less well, in general, on all types of assessments, including constructed-response tests. The present study examined the writing styles of African American…
Descriptors: African Americans, Reference Groups, Teacher Evaluation, National Standards
An Experimental Analysis of the Affective Dimensions of Deep Vocabulary Knowledge Used in Inferring the Meaning of Words in Context
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Corrigan, Roberta – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper examines an under-studied component of deep vocabulary knowledge, affective meaning, which is used to convey attitudes. Two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency, are examined to determine whether they influence the vocabulary choices of native speakers of American-English in describing interpersonal interactions. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Sentences, Nouns