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Marian, Viorica; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Cross-linguistic borrowing (overt use of words from the other language) and transfer (use of semantic or syntactic structures from the other language without active switching to that language) were examined during language production in Russian-English bilinguals. Grammatical category (noun/verb) and level of concreteness were found to influence…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Verbs
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Henry, Kathryn – Modern Language Journal, 1996
Reports the results of a cross-sectional study of 67 short autobiographical essays by U.S. students of Russian at 4 levels. Linguistic measures differentiating the groups included fluency and syntactic fluency, but not accuracy. The article recommends further research into second- and foreign- language learning writing that accounts for different…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, College Students, Context Effect, Cross Sectional Studies