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Hemsley, Gayle; Holm, Alison; Dodd, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2013
This study investigated cross-linguistic influence in acquisition of a second lexicon, evaluating Samoan-English sequentially bilingual children (initial mean age 4 ; 9) during their first 18 months of school. Receptive and Expressive Vocabulary tasks evaluated acquisition of four word types: cognates, matched nouns, phrasal nouns and holonyms.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
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Sakarna, Ahmad Khalaf; Mobaideen, Adnan – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
The present study investigates the phonological effect triggered by the different types of phonetic pause used in Quran on morphology, syntax, and semantics. It argues that Quranic pause provides interesting evidence about the close relation between phonology and semantics, from one side, and semantics, morphology, and syntax, from the other…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics, Morphology (Languages)
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Zamuner, Tania S. – Journal of Child Language, 2011
Within the subfields of linguistics, traditional approaches tend to examine different phenomena in isolation. As Stoel-Gammon (this issue) correctly states, there is little interaction between the subfields. However, for a more comprehensive understanding of language acquisition in general and, more specifically, lexical and phonological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Semantics, Nouns, Syntax
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Miller, Karen L.; Schmitt, Cristina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
The present article examines the effect of variable input on the acquisition of plural morphology in two varieties of Spanish: Chilean Spanish, where the plural marker is sometimes omitted due to a phonological process of syllable final /s/ lenition, and Mexican Spanish (of Mexico City), with no such lenition process. The goal of the study is to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking
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Boloh, Yves; Ibernon, Laure – First Language, 2013
According to a dominant thesis, nominal endings are the privileged cues French children use to determine new nouns' gender subclass. Children will rely on phonology even in cases of discordance with natural gender. Two elicited production studies involving more than 250 4- to 17-year-olds showed that while French children did not base their gender…
Descriptors: Phonology, Cues, Nouns, Masculinity
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Foucart, Alice; Branigan, Holly P.; Bard, Ellen G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Determiner selection requires the retrieval of the noun's syntactic features (e.g., gender) and sometimes of its phonological features. Miozzo and Caramazza (1999) argued that the selection of determiners in Germanic languages is more straightforward than in Romance languages because it is not dependent on the phonological properties of the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Nouns, Task Analysis
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Dank, Maya; Deutsch, Avital – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The present study investigated the role of overt phonological realisation of morphological marking on the implementation of subject-predicate agreement in language production. This study was conducted in Hebrew, and focused on subject-predicate gender agreement for inanimate nouns. In Hebrew, singular masculine forms are usually morphologically…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Nouns, Grammar, Suffixes
Nagaya, Naonori – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study presents the grammar of the Lewotobi dialect of Lamaholot, an Austronesian language spoken in the eastern part of Flores Island and neighboring islands of Indonesia. Lamaholot belongs to the Central Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of Austronesian, within which it is in a subgroup with the languages of Timor and Roti. The number of speakers…
Descriptors: Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Dialects
Galbreath, Blake Lee Everett – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive analysis of gender assignment in Contemporary Standard Russian within the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). The result of the dissertation is the establishment of the phonological, morphological, semantic, and faithfulness constraints necessary to assign…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Russian, Linguistic Theory, Phonology
Allison, Sean David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Makary Kotoko (MK), a Central Chadic B language, is spoken in the north of Cameroon just south of Lake Chad. Published works on MK to date include about a dozen articles on different aspects of the grammar of the language, primarily by H. Tourneux. The present work, which is based on a substantial corpus of recorded texts, is a systematic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Staub, Adrian; Grant, Margaret; Clifton, Charles, Jr.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In this brief rejoinder, we respond to Farmer, Monaghan, Misyak, and Christiansen (2011). We argue that the data still do not support the claim that reading time is affected by the phonological typicality of a word for its part of speech. We also question Farmer et al.'s claim that interleaving syntactic structures in an experiment modifies…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Syntax, Reading, Phonology
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Mackie, Clare J.; Dockrell, Julie; Lindsay, Geoff – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In this study, we performed a fine grained analysis of writing by children with a specific language impairment (SLI) and examined the contribution of oral language, phonological short-term memory (STM), nonverbal ability, and word reading to three writing constructs (productivity, complexity and accuracy). Forty-six children with SLI were compared…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Impairments, Language Skills, Oral Language
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Mykhaylyk, Roksolana – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study examines the word order phenomenon of optional scrambling in Ukrainian. It aims to test factors such as semantic features and object type that have been shown to affect scrambling in other languages. Forty-one children between 2 ; 7 and 6 ; 0, and twenty adult speakers participated in an elicited production experiment. The picture…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonology, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
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
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Kenstowicz, Michael J. – Language Sciences, 2009
This paper documents the acoustic reflexes of ATR harmony in Kinande followed by an analysis of the dominance reversal found in class 5 nominals. The principal findings are that the ATR harmony is reliably reflected in a lowering of the first formant. Depending on the vowel, ATR harmony also affects the second formant. The directional asymmetry…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm
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