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Sgall, P. – Linguistics, 1975
The article attempts to define more clearly the term "typology," using as its base the work of Skalica. It discusses the particular language characteristics which form the basis of classification of the terms "type" and "class" as they are used in different language typologies. (DH)
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Typology, Linguistic Theory
Penalosa, Fernando – Aztlan, 1972
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Diglossia, Language Classification, Mexican Americans
Henry, Jeannette – Weewish Tree: A Magazine of Indian America for Young People, 1972
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
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Rubin, Judith G. – Special Libraries, 1971
The application of concepts for viewing events or relationships in other languages may lead to new and better systems for classing and retrieving data in the English language. (AB)
Descriptors: Classification, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Language Classification
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Solorzano, Ronald W. – Review of Educational Research, 2008
This article discusses the issues and implications of high stakes tests on English language learners (ELLs). As ELLs are being included in all high stakes assessments tied to accountability efforts (e.g., No Child Left Behind), it is crucial that issues related to the tests be critically evaluated relative to their use. In this case, academic…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Predictive Validity, Second Language Learning, High Stakes Tests
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Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Serrat, Elisabet; Andreu, Llorenc; Serra, Miquel – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
In this article we examine language processing and development in Catalan or Spanish-speaking children with SLI, focusing on the study of the verb. We analyse the key initial phase of its process of acquisition and aim to define common features of the SLI group that distinguish them from children with normal language development. We intend to…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speech, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
Kibrik, Alexandr E. – 1991
An analysis of semantically ergative languages begins with a description of the essential results of research on ergativity to date, and an outline of the assumptions and conceptual apparatus on which the analysis is based. Subsequently, data from 20 Daghestanian languages, primarily Archi, are examined for evidence of the syntactic features of…
Descriptors: Language Classification, Language Patterns, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
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Neustupny, J. V. – Language in Society, 1974
The author suggests an evolutionary typology of languages and a way to integrate the concept of linguistic modernization with a theory of language problems. (Author/PM)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Classification, Language Typology
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Sayahi, Lotfi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2007
The present paper assesses the implications of the existence of two varieties of the same language for contact-induced language change in cases of bilingualism. By analysing the contact between French and Tunisian Arabic, on the one hand, and Spanish and Northern Moroccan Arabic, on the other, the purpose is to illustrate how the coexistence of…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Interpersonal Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Interference (Language)
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Tough, Joan – Educational Review, 1974
The language of three year old children is examined to discover whether existing classifications of language functions account for all the ways in which language is used. One mode of classification is used to compare the language used by three year olds from different groups. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Dialogs (Literary), Educational Experience, Language Classification
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Voegelin, C.F.; Voegelin, F.M. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1965
This volume of the Languages of the World Series contains: "(1.5) Unified List of American Indian Languages aboriginal to Latin America" (pages 1-120), and "(1.6) Classification of American Indian languages" (North, Central, and South America, pages 121-50). For each language, language family, or other group, information is…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Comparative Analysis, Dialects, Language Classification
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Cadora, Frederic J. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1976
This study assesses and characterizes lexical relationships among the major urban Syro-Lebanese varieties of Arabic. To achieve this quantitative analysis of degrees of similarity or differentiation, an analytical procedure based on lexical compatibility was developed. Secondarily, a classification of these varieties is presented as a by-product…
Descriptors: Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Classification
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Baker, Ronald L. – Contemporary Education, 1988
The study of folk speech, which traditionally included only regional dialects, has evolved to include cultural and generational dialects. This article discusses how folk speech study has come to include a range of dialects and a variety of sociolinguistic trends. (JL)
Descriptors: Dialects, Ethnography, Folk Culture, Language Classification
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Askov, Eunice N.; Kamm, Karlyn – Journal of Educational Research, 1976
Third-, fourth-, and fifth-graders who received training in recognition of context clues performed significantly better than controls on tests of reading skills. (GW)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Elementary Education, Language Classification, Reading Comprehension
Jensen, James D. – Performance and Instruction, 1982
Classifies authoring languages for computer assisted instructional lessons according to a taxonomy based on the hierarchy commonly used for computer languages--the lowest level being the code used by the machine itself and higher levels successively more removed from the machine language. (Author/JJD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Language Classification, Microcomputers
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