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Direct linkKonoshenko, Maria – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
Linguists tend to believe that total complexity of human languages is invariable. In order to test this hypothesis empirically, we need to calculate the complexity in different domains of language structure: phonology, morphology, syntax, etc. In this paper I provide some guidelines for documenting tonal systems and evaluating their complexity. I…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, African Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)
Konnerth, Linda Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Karbi is a Tibeto-Burman (TB) language spoken by half a million people in the Karbi Anglong district in Assam, Northeast India, and surrounding areas in the extended Brahmaputra Valley area. It is an agglutinating, verb-final language. This dissertation offers a description of the dialect spoken in the hills of the Karbi Anglong district. It is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Grammar, Geographic Regions
Wang, Chiung-Yao – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of the dissertation is to examine Mandarin-speaking children's acquisition of a syntax-dependent phonological rule Tone 3 Sandhi (T3S). A Tone 3 (low dipping tone) is changed to a Tone 2 (mid rising tone) when it is followed by another Tone 3. Application of T3S in fact involves a complex process. In setting up the prosodic domains…
Descriptors: Syntax, Syllables, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Pike, Kenneth L. – 1964
The chief purposes of this book are the illustration of an analytical approach to tone languages, a methodology based upon recent linguistic advance, and the presentation of firsthand data on Mixteco and Mazateco, languages which represent two very different structural arrangements of linguistic tone. Part 1 describes some of the types of…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Contrast, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects
Teaching English to Speakers of Vietnamese. Refugee Education Guide: General Information Series #23.
Download full textCenter for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1981
This guide highlights problems Vietnamese speakers are likely to have in learning English because of differences between the two languages and suggests ways of helping Vietnamese students of English over difficulties caused by these differences. The first section of the guide provides an overview of the Vietnamese language: the alphabet, word…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language)
No, Yongkyoon, Ed.; Libucha, Mark, Ed. – 1991
Papers include: "Length and Structure Effects in Syntactic Processing"; Nantong Tone Sandhi and Tonal Feature Geometry"; "Event Reference and Property Theory"; "Function-Argument Structure, Category Raising and Bracketing Paradoxes"; "At the Phonetics-Phonology Interface: (Re)Syllabification and English Stop…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Case Studies, Chinese, Evaluation Methods
