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Direct linkFerrero, Carmen Lopez – Applied Linguistics, 2012
The aim of this article is to describe the grammatical patterns of a set of nouns frequently used in Spanish specialized discourse: the so-called "semiterms". The following nouns were selected for the study: "problema" "problem", "resultado" "result", "motivo" "motive/reason", "razon" "reason", and "consecuencia" "consequence". Apart from…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Patterns, Nouns, Spanish
Webb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following…
Descriptors: Scripts, Physical Activities, Nouns, Vocabulary
Peer reviewedVerhallen, Marianne; Schoonen, Rob – Applied Linguistics, 1993
To study lexical knowledge relevant for school success, 40 monolingual Dutch and 40 bilingual Turkish 9 and 11-year olds were asked to explain the meanings of common Dutch nouns in an extended word definition task. Compared to the monolingual Dutch children, the bilingual Turkish children allotted less extensive and varied meanings to Dutch words.…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis
