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Stankiewicz, Edward; And Others – 1968
Volume 3 of the Russian Dialect Studies is a bibliography listing Russian dialect studies published in the 19th and 20th centuries in Russia and abroad. The selection has been oriented primarily toward phonological and morphological studies of the dialects, and secondarily toward lexical, syntactic, and other studies. The bibliography is also…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Instructional Materials
Alexander, Jim, Ed.; Han, Na-Rae, Ed.; Fox, Michelle Minnick, Ed. – 1999
This issue includes the following articles: "Assimilation to the Unmarked" (Eric Bakovic); "On the Non-Universality of Functional Projections and the Effects on Parametrized Variation: Evidence from Creoles" (Marlyse Baptista); "What Turkish Acquisition Tells Us about Underlying Word Order and Scrambling" (Natalie…
Descriptors: Bulgarian, Creoles, Dialects, French
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Thompson, Irene; Rubin, Joan – Foreign Language Annals, 1996
Reports on a classroom-based, longitudinal study of the effect of learner strategy instruction on listening comprehension. The hypothesis that systematic instruction in the use of strategies will result in the improvement of listening comprehension was confirmed. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Language Research
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Mohan, John M. – ADFL Bulletin, 1999
Presents a tribute to Dan Davidson, American Department of Foreign Language's (ADFL) 1997 honoree as an outstanding educator, focusing on Davidson's work to expand Russian studies nationwide and forge ties between U.S. Russianists and Russia itself over the past decades, beginning with the post-Sputnik era. Davidson was able to go beyond the Iron…
Descriptors: Awards, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Education, Higher Education
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Papadopoulou, Despina; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
To contribute to a better understanding of second language (L2) sentence processing, the present study examines how L2 learners parse temporarily ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses. Results are reported from both off-line and on-line experiments with three groups of advanced learners of Greek whose native languages (L1s) were Spanish,…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Cues, Greek
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Zsiga, Elizabeth C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
This study compares patterns of consonant-to-consonant timing at word boundaries in English and Russian and investigates the roles of transfer and the emergence of linguistic universals in second language (L2) articulation. Native Russian speakers learning English and native English speakers learning Russian produced phrases in English and Russian…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Second Language Learning, Language Universals, Russian
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Stankiewicz, Edward; And Others – 1971
This is Part 1 of the first of three volumes presenting a structural description of Russian dialects. This book deals with the phonological patterns of the dialects and analyzes in detail the vocalic and consonantal systems, discussing distribution, environmental influences, prosodic features, and variations among the dialects. The description is…
Descriptors: Consonants, Dialect Studies, Dialects, Distinctive Features (Language)
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1978
This issue of the journal includes these papers on contrastive linguistics: "The Impersonal Sentence in Russian and Romanian" (Suzanne Whalen); "Differential Identity Between Languages--A Study of Assertion and Interrogation in French and English" (William A. Bennett); "The Use of the Article in English and Hungarian: A Contrastive Analysis" (Eva…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Determiners (Languages), English, French
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1976
A collection of 32 conference papers is presented as reflecting the state of the art in contrastive linguistics studies of English and other languages. The reports cover the following topics: 5 English contrastive projects (Romanian-English, Yugoslav-Serbo-Croatian English, English-Hungarian, and Finnish-English analysis, and a project from the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
HARSHENIN, ALEX P. – 1967
ALTHOUGH THE ENROLLMENT IN COURSES IN UKRANIAN IN WESTERN CANADA'S SECONDARY SCHOOLS CONTINUES TO INCREASE NORMALLY, THE DEMAND FOR RUSSIAN DECLINES PROGRESSIVELY. FACTORS AFFECTING THE ENROLLMENT TRENDS ARE (1) THE UNDERSTANDABLE PREFERENCE OF THE PREDOMINANTLY UKRANIAN POPULATION OF THE PRAIRIE STATES TO STUDY THEIR PARENT TONGUE, (2) THE LOCAL…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Curriculum Problems, Elective Courses, Enrollment Trends
MACDONALD, R. ROSS – 1966
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION IS GIVEN OF AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY FROM 1960 TO 1966 IN WHICH SELECTED BLIND STUDENTS, THROUGH INTENSIVE AUDIOLINGUAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, WERE TRAINED TO BROADEN THEIR EMPLOYMENT POTENTIAL. ALTHOUGH ONLY RUSSIAN AND THE TRANSCRIPTION OF ORAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE MATERIALS WERE TAUGHT IN THE PILOT…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Audiolingual Skills, Blindness, Cultural Enrichment
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Tarone, Elaine; Dwyer, Sharon; Gillette, Susan; Icke, Vincent. – English for Specific Purposes, 1998
A study examined frequency of active, passive verb forms in two astrophysics journal articles, finding "we" plus an active voice occurs at least as frequently as the passive. This pattern typifies a previously unidentified type of research article, the logical argument scientific paper, whose characteristics are detailed. Similar pattern…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes
Lonnqvist, Barbara – 1982
Although spoken language was the subject of attention among Soviet linguists for a short period in the 1920s, it has not attracted much attention since then. The main concern of Soviet linguists has been the forms of written language. Only at the end of the 1960s did linguists begin to record spontaneous speech on tape and study its forms. The…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Restan, Per A. – Scando-Slavica, 1960
The aim of this study is to give a description of the linguistic position of the negative genitive in written Russian and to explain the relationship between different factors. It is demonstrated that the negative genitive still holds its position as the stronger case in negative clauses with 69 percent of all sample cases in the genitive, as…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Bell, Alan; And Others – 1972
This document contains three reports in prepublication form on research conducted by linguists at the University of Colorado. The first paper presents an argument against the theories concerning the concept of the distributional syllable. Such theories are based on the assumptions that the syllable can and should be defined formally, without…
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Intonation
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