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Skilton, Amalia – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
Ticuna (ISO: tca) is a language isolate spoken in the northwestern Amazon Basin (Brazil, Colombia, Peru). Ticuna has more speakers than almost all other Indigenous Amazonian languages and -- unlike most languages of the area -- is still learned by children. Yet academic linguists have given it relatively little research attention. Therefore, to…
Descriptors: Language Research, American Indian Languages, Archives, Ethics
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Hamp, Eric P. – International Journal of American Linguistics, 1975
This article discusses the consonantal correspondences that occur between Zuni and California Penutian, and proposes a revision of the set of consonant features used to illustrate these correspondences. (CLK)
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics
FIRST, RAMONA; MCLEOD, DORIS G. – 1964
THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TYPEWRITING INSTRUCTION COULD BE USED AS AN AID TO THE LEARNING OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WAS TESTED. STUDENTS WERE ASSIGNED TO EXPERIMENTAL AND CONTROL GROUPS, MATCHED ON THE BASIS OF PRECOURSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST SCORES AND SUCH OTHER FACTORS AS NATIVE LANGUAGE. BOTH GROUPS COMPLETED THE REGULAR 12-WEEK, ENGLISH…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Educational Media, English Instruction