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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Gor, Kira – Language Learning, 2014
In order to comprehend speech, listeners have to combine low-level phonetic information about the incoming auditory signal with higher-order contextual information to make a lexical selection. This requires stable phonological categories and unambiguous representations of words in the mental lexicon. Unlike native speakers, second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Phonology
Akanova, Dana Khalelovna – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of ethical datives (EDs) in two Slavic languages, Russian and Macedonian. EDs are defined through a pragmatic lens as discourse licensed perspective markers in which a dative form expresses a speaker's decision to signal someone's emotional attitude--real or perceived--toward the action. Owing to…
Descriptors: Russian, Ethics, Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis
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Schwartz, Mila – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the role of the "First Language First" model for preschool bilingual education in the development of vocabulary depth. The languages studied were Russian (L1) and Hebrew (L2) among bilingual children aged 4-5 years in Israel. According to this model, the children's first language of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Semitic Languages, Russian, Preschool Children
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Kimmelman, Vadim – Sign Language Studies, 2012
In this paper the results of an investigation of word order in Russian Sign Language (RSL) are presented. A small corpus of narratives based on comic strips by nine native signers was analyzed and a picture-description experiment (based on Volterra et al. 1984) was conducted with six native signers. The results are the following: the most frequent…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Semantics, Sign Language, Sentences
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Mak, Willem M.; Tribushinina, Elena; Andreiushina, Elizaveta – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study aims to establish whether connectives can create referential expectations in discourse, and, if so, what these expectations are based on: connective semantics or frequency distributions in language use. This was tested by comparing the processing of the connectives "and" and "but" in Dutch and Russian by means of an…
Descriptors: Semantics, Eye Movements, Russian, Indo European Languages
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Fortuin, Egbert – Language Sciences, 2011
In Russian infinitives of impersonal verbs have a peculiar distribution: they are not acceptable in most syntactic contexts, but there are also syntactic contexts in which they are perfectly acceptable. Based on a qualitative analysis of data from corpora, the Internet and an acceptability survey, it is argued that the restrictions on impersonals…
Descriptors: Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Russian, Semiotics
LeBlanc, Nicholas Lance – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation proposes a structured semantic account of the polysemous Russian verbal prefix "po-" within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and using corpus linguistic methods. While scholarly consensus identifies five meanings for "po-" and an additional meaning in conjunction with the suffix--"yva"--, the relationships among…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Multivariate Analysis, Russian
Duraskovic, Ljiljana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Russian legal-administrative documents from the early fourteenth through the mid-seventeenth century (Middle Russian) show extensive variation in expressing possessivity within the noun phrase. Possessor expressions can be conveyed by morphologically derived possessive adjectives, adnominal genitives, or by combinations of those constructions…
Descriptors: Russian, Laws, Language Variation, Nouns
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Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This article discusses the acquisition of gender in Russian, focusing on some exceptional subclasses of nouns that display a mismatch between semantics and morphology. Experimental results from twenty-five Russian-speaking monolinguals (age 2 ; 6-4 ; 0) are presented and, within a cue-based approach to language acquisition, we argue that children…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Cues
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Kazanina, Nina – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
I examined the nature of morphological decomposition in a series of masked-priming experiments with Russian prefixed nouns. In Experiments 1A and 1B, I tested 3 types of prime-target pairs in which the prime was a morphologically simple word, and a facilitation was found when the prime and the target were truly morphologically related (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Priming, Nouns, Morphemes, Russian
Paperno, Denis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explores the diversity and unity of coordination constructions in natural language. Following the goal of bridging syntactic typology with formal semantics, it takes the typological variation in NP coordination patterns as a challenge for semantic theory. Hybrid Coordination in Russian and Comitative Coordination in…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Nouns, Phrase Structure
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Grebenyova, Lydia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
This article presents the results of four studies exploring the acquisition of the language-specific syntactic and semantic properties of multiple interrogatives in English, Russian, and Malayalam, languages that behave differently with respect to the syntax and semantics of multiple interrogatives. A corpus analysis investigated the frequency of…
Descriptors: English, Semantics, Verbs, Syntax
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
Cho, Ji-Hyeon Jacee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation investigates second language (L2) development in the domains of morphosyntax and semantics. Specifically, it examines the acquisition of definiteness and specificity in Russian within the Feature Re-assembly framework (Lardiere, 2009), according to which the hardest L2 learning task is not to reset parameters but to reconfigure,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Min, Junghee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation represents a study of the formation of "-sja" passives of Russian verbs of governing and wanting. I explore five imperfective verbs of governing: "zavedovat" "manage"; "komandovat" "command"; "pravit" "govern"; "rukovdit" "direct"; and "upravljat" "manage"; as well as four imperfective verbs of wanting: "iskat" "seek"; "trebovat"…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Grammar, Russian
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