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Peer reviewedPatterson, William T. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1986
A study reveals that lexical borrowing in Spanish, from a variety of languages including Latin, French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Provencal, and Catalan, accounts for 41 percent of the basic Spanish vocabulary, with variation in source according to historical period. (MSE)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Diachronic Linguistics, Linguistic Borrowing, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedSurridge, Marie E. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1989
In a corpus of the most frequent French words, phonetic rules relating the end of a noun to gender are simplified, and morphological rules governing the gender of suffixed nouns are illustrated. The stratified presentation is offered to teachers for classroom use. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, French, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
