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Tsang, Wai Lan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
This paper reports on a study examining the relationship between language learning and perceived language differences. Two groups of native Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong, L1 Cantonese--L2 English (CE) and L1 Cantonese--L2 English--L3 French (CEF), were asked to complete two tasks: a placement test in English (as well as in French for the CEF…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, French
Pfenninger, Simone E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This paper analyses the use of periphrastic "do" in negative declaratives and non-negative questions with inversion by 200 Swiss and 30 German middle-school students of the same age but with different onsets of learning English and consequently a different amount of foreign language instructions. "Do"-support shows evidence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, German, Native Language
Deng, Yu; Chen, Huifang – English Language Teaching, 2012
English and Chinese are satellite-framed languages in which Manner is usually incorporated with Motion in the verb and Path is denoted by the satellite. Based on Talmy's theory of motion event and typology, the research probes into translation of English and Chinese motion events and finds that: (1) Translation of motion events in English and…
Descriptors: Translation, Chinese, Verbs, English
Walker, Aaron Hyde – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is concerned with the specific relationship between copular sentences and existential sentences, and what about that relationship is responsible for the well-known restrictions on definiteness and predicates that are observed in the existential cases. Instead of starting with the well-known paradigms which illustrate restrictions…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phonology, Morphemes, Grammar
Backus, Ad; Dogruöz, A. Seza; Heine, Bernd – Language Sciences, 2011
Contact between languages often leads to linguistic changes. Although the social factors and the typological characteristics of the languages influence the change process, the interaction between these factors is not well-known. This is partially due to the fact that the long-term and short-term effects of language contact are rarely brought…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Grammar, Social Influences, Language Classification
Goldberg, Adele E. – Cognition, 2013
Typologists have long observed that there are certain distributional patterns that are not evenly distributed among the world's languages. This discussion note revisits a recent experimental investigation of one such intriguing case, so-called "universal 18", by Culbertson, Smolensky, and Legendre (2012). The authors find that adult learners are…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Adult Students, Grammar, Artificial Languages
Bourguignon, Nicolas; Drury, John E.; Valois, Daniel; Steinhauer, Karsten – Brain and Language, 2012
The present study aimed to refine current hypotheses regarding thematic reversal anomalies, which have been found to elicit either N400 or--more frequently--"semantic-P600" (sP600) effects. Our goal was to investigate whether distinct ERP profiles reflect aspectual-thematic differences between Agent-Subject Verbs (ASVs; e.g., "to eat") and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Nouns, Brain Hemisphere Functions
López-Escribano, Carmen; Ivanova, Anelia; Shtereva, Katerina – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2018
Introduction: The present study provides description of two typologically diverse languages in origin (Slavic vs. Latin), script (Cyrillic vs. Roman), and internal structure. One of the similarities, between the two studied orthographies is that spelling-sound transparency is quite consistent in both languages. The goal of the present study was to…
Descriptors: Naming, Vocabulary Development, Correlation, Regression (Statistics)
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
Nguyen, Tam Thi Minh – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Bih is a Chamic (Austronesian) language spoken by approximately 500 people in the Southern highlands of Vietnam. This dissertation is the first descriptive grammar of the language, based on extensive fieldwork and community-based language documentation in Vietnam and written from a functional/typological perspective. The analysis in this work is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syllables, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Foreign Countries
Hantgan, Abbie – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation provides a description of aspects of the phonology, morphology, and morphosyntax of Bangime. Bangime is a language isolate spoken in the Dogon language speaking area of Central Eastern Mali. Although the Bangande, the speakers of Bangime, self-identify with the Dogon, their language bears practically no resemblance to the…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Language Research, Syntax
Montanari, Simona; Simón-Cereijido, Gabriela; Hartel, Antonella – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2016
This study examines the writing skills of students in grades 1 to 5 of an Italian-English two-way immersion program. Narrative writing samples were collected in both languages and scored for content, organization, grammar, mechanics, vocabulary, text length, and overall total score. The results show that writing skills improved as a function of…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Vocabulary Development
Slavkov, Nikolay – Second Language Research, 2015
This article investigates spoken productions of complex questions with long-distance wh-movement in the L2 English of speakers whose first language is (Canadian) French or Bulgarian. Long-distance wh-movement is of interest as it can be argued that it poses difficulty in acquisition due to its syntactic complexity and related high processing load.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
Wang, Honglei – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The DP Hypothesis proposes that nominal phrases can be analyzed as consisting of Determiner Phrase (DP) on top of Noun Phrase (NP); however, there is a debate on whether this hypothesis works for all languages. Given that previous studies on Chinese leave this question unresolved, this dissertation investigates new empirical evidence to test…
Descriptors: Syntax, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Chinese
Altinkamis, N. Feyza; Kern, Sophie; Sofu, Hatice – First Language, 2014
The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, French, Mothers, Toys