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Baker, Elisabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The current study investigates Spanish children's variation between the standard and non-standard forms for second person singular preterit --s ("caiste" [approximately equal to] "caístes"). All second person singular preterit forms were extracted from the spontaneous speech of 78 children in Spain and analyzed for the effects…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Spanish, Grammar, Speech Communication
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Planas, Núria – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
The thinking of language as resource in mathematics education research has been more metaphorical than conceptual so far. This article provides grounds and reasons for the theorization of language as resource. Based on views from sociolinguistics and functional grammar, I propose a theorization that considers the social languages of learners and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Grammar
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Zabala Unzalu, Igone; San Martin Egia, Itziar; Lersundi Ayestaran, Mikel – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
The aim of this article is to describe some theoretical and methodological bases underpinning the design of the course Health Communication in Basque (HCB) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Based on some relevant theoretical tenets of the socioterminologic and communicative approaches to Terminology, the authors assume that…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Variation, Vocabulary Development
Stokes, Craig R. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation is a study of Castilian transcodic markers in the Catalan written on the Internet. Thirty Castilian transcodic markers representing five categories were run through the interface of the Corpus d'Us del Catala a la Web (CucWeb) to collect information in order to conduct both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The major…
Descriptors: Priming, Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns
Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles