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Yong-quan, Liu – ALLC Journal, 1980
Reviews the history of machine translation (MT) research in China. Describes Chinese MT techniques as based on syntactic analysis, full use of fixed phrases, the key role of funtion words, and emphasis on formal analysis without neglecting meaning. (Available from ALLC, Dr. Rex Last, German Dept., Univ. of Hull, Hull HU57RX, England.) (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Chinese, English, French, German
Gak, Victor – Francais dans le Monde, 1989
The comparison of languages can be an effective instructional technique if used well. The comparison of isolated elements is less effective than the examination of languages at several levels: system, norm, and usage. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contrastive Linguistics, Educational Strategies, English
Kempe, Vera; Brooks, Patricia J. – Language Learning, 2005
This study investigated second-language (L2) learning to gain a better understanding of learning mechanisms that also operate in child first-language L1 learners. The research was inspired by research on the beneficial effects of child-directed speech CDS. We tried to examine whether such benefits can be observed in the domain of inflectional…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Russian, English, Nouns
Hinton, Leanne, Ed.; And Others – 1994
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, 24 leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. Contributions and authors include the following: "Sound-Symbolic Processes" (Leanne Hinton, Johanna…
Descriptors: African Languages, Clinics, English, Finnish
FAUSER, CHRISTL; STOLUROW, LAWRENCE M. – 1965
THIS WAS A COMPILATION OF ABSTRACTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSES WHICH WERE EITHER TOTALLY OR PARTIALLY PROGRAMED. THESE COURSES HAD ENGLISH EITHER AS THE TARGET OR AS THE STUDENT LANGUAGE. IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMS THAT WERE AVAILABLE, INFORMATION ABOUT CERTAIN PROGRAMS WHICH MIGHT LATER BE AVAILABLE WAS ALSO INCLUDED. THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, English, French, German
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 2001
This instructional video is designed for schools, teachers, community groups, and others, as a tool for use in communicating to refugee and immigrant parents. The video serves as a brief overview to the many facets of school which might be new or different for refugee or immigrant parents, including suggestions of what parents might do at home to…
Descriptors: Amharic, Cultural Education, English, English (Second Language)
Alliere, Jacques – Linguistique, 1979
Examines verbal "multipersonal" inflections in Basque and other languages. (AM)
Descriptors: Basque, Caucasian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Czech
Taylor, Eric H.; Barton, Lisa S. – 1994
The Texas Refugee Study was initiated to collect valid and reliable information to better direct refugee policy, improve services to refugees, give service providers information to help them become more competitive in seeking federal and private dollars, and help refugees better understand their own communities. The targeted groups, Vietnamese,…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Demography, Employment Patterns, English
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1982
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "Some Problems of YES-NO Answers" (Aleksander Szwedek); "Danish versus Russian. A Short Analysis of the Verb" (Christian Hougaard); "Polish SIE Constructions and Their English Counterparts" (Wojciech Kubinski); "More on the Time Reference and the Analysis of Tense"…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English, Grammar
Lewis, David – 1978
Despite the fact that the twentieth-century ecumenical movement was coeval with the beginning of a "language revolution" and the "theology of crisis," it was only at the beginning of the present decade that the problem of unity in verbal formulations reached the agenda of the World Council of Churches (WCC). At that time the…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Church Role, English, French
Marian, Viorica; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Journal of Memory and Language, 2004
Autobiographical memories retrieved by bicultural Russian-English bilinguals were compared across languages. Results suggest that bilinguals' languages may influence cognitive styles, so that when speaking a language associated with a more individualistic culture, bilinguals produce more individualistic narratives, whereas when speaking a language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Russian
Hyams, Nina – 1986
The distinction between core and peripheral grammar made in government-binding theory sheds light on some questions concerning the acquisition of the inflectional morphology of different languages. The schedule for acquisition of the inflectional system may be determined not by the learning of particular affixes but by whether inflection is a core…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Grammar
1967
THE PAPERS IN THIS VOLUME--CATEGORIZED AS EITHER (1) AUTOMATIC ANALYSES OF NATURAL LANGUAGES, (2) STATISTIC AND SEMANTIC ANALYSES OF LINGUISTIC DATA, OR (3) ALGEBRAIC THEORIES OF LANGUAGES--ARE THE COLLECTIVE PRODUCT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS HELD AT GRENOBLE, FRANCE, AUGUST 23-25, 1967. TOPICS RANGE FROM…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Chinese, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics
Jacobson, Steven A. – 1990
This guide is designed for St. Lawrence Islanders (Alaska) wishing to learn the Cyrillic system for writing the Yupik language as used in the Soviet Union. It presumes knowledge of the St. Lawrence Island writing system, and can be used independently or with the help of an instructor. The guide comprises 10 lessons, each of which contains writing…
Descriptors: Cyrillic Alphabet, English, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Foreign Countries
Aronson, Howard I. – Slavic and East European Journal, 1964
An approach to a contrastive analysis of phonologies for pedagogic purposes is illustrated through the discussion of selected problems of interference which arise in the teaching of Russian pronunciation to native speakers of American English. The need for a recognition of a hierarchy of errors and the importance of the phonetic level of analysis…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Interference (Language)