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Peer reviewedAndrews, Edna; And Others – Language Quarterly, 1993
Two surveys conducted in the Soviet Union are reported that demonstrate the complicated interrelationship between linguistic form and meaning. They support Jakobson and Gorbacevic on gender signalling, particularly when the speaker is not certain of the noun in question. (Contains 44 references.) (LB)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Wei, Jacqueline – 1962
This study is a description of the linguistic differences between three Persian dialects. The underlying aim of the study is to provide the linguistic facts necessary to evaluate the implications of divergence between the dialects for students of Persian. It would appear that if students experience difficulty in adjusting from one dialect to…
Descriptors: Consonants, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Function Words
