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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
English and Arabic have different types of collocations, i.e., groups of words that go together. This study aims to explore the difficulties that Saudi undergraduate student-translators have in translating English word + preposition collocations such as verb + preposition, noun + preposition, and adjective + preposition collocations to Arabic. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Translation, English (Second Language)
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Analysis of a corpus of errors in pronouncing Proper Nouns used in English collected from the spontaneous speech of a sample of Arab informants showed that Arabic speakers have the following problems: (i) mispronouncing English vowels in "Google," "Moodle," "Uber," "Nixon," "London;" (ii) replacing…
Descriptors: Arabs, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Nouns
Gu, Wenyuan – Online Submission, 2022
The purpose of this article is to help ESL (English as a Second Language) students or English language learners (ELLs) how to express or use moods correctly when they study English. The expression of moods was summarized and illustrated from various examples cited or given, on the basis of the writer's more than twenty years' teaching experience…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Second Language Instruction, Textbooks
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Jaturongkachoke, Ketkanda – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
Numeral classifiers have been studied by both linguists who consider them to be function morphemes with no semantic significance and those who contend that they are semantically loaded. While considering both views not to be incorrect, this study, leaning toward the latter view, demonstrates that speakers use classifiers to achieve their intended…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Semantics, Thai, Native Speakers
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Ke, Alan Hezao; Zhao, Ya; Gao, Liqun; Liu, Shuying; Pires, Acrisio – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
This paper provides experimental and theoretical evidence for the syntactic realization of an implicit possessor argument in Relational Nouns (RNs, e.g. "father") in Mandarin Chinese. The results of Experiment 1 show that the antecedent of the implicit argument in RNs must be a noun phrase (NP) in the sentence where the RN is located,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Usage, Grammar, Syntax
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Hendrickson, Kristi; Love, Tracy; Walenski, Matthew; Friend, Margaret – Developmental Science, 2019
The majority of research examining early auditory-semantic processing and organization is based on studies of meaningful relations between words and referents. However, a thorough investigation into the fundamental relation between acoustic signals and meaning requires an understanding of how meaning is associated with both lexical and non-lexical…
Descriptors: Infants, Semantics, Acoustics, Brain
Esipova, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Some types of semantic content have a potential or a requirement to project, i.e., to get interpreted outside the semantic scope of various operators such as negation, conditional and question operators, modals, etc., despite appearing to be in their syntactic scope. But what is the exact classification of projecting content, and how do we know…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphology (Languages), Speech, Nonverbal Communication
Peters, Ryan E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Recent modeling work shows that patterns of shared perceptual features relate to the group-level order of acquisition of early-learned words (Peters & Borovsky, 2019). Here we present results for two eye-tracked word recognition studies showing patterns of shared perceptual features likewise influence processing of known and novel…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Nouns, Toddlers, Attention
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Kiwamu Kasahara; Akifumi Yanagisawa – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research has shown that learning a known-and-unknown word combination leads to greater learning than learning an unknown word alone (Kasahara, 2010, 2011). These studies found that attaching a known adjective to an unknown noun can help learners remember the unknown noun. Kasahara (2015) found that a known verb can serve as an effective cue to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Form Classes (Languages), Recall (Psychology), Comparative Analysis
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Walker, Neil; Monaghan, Padraic; Schoetensack, Christine; Rebuschat, Patrick – Language Learning, 2020
Learning language requires acquiring the grammatical categories of words in the language, but learning those categories requires understanding the role of words in the syntax. In this study, we examined how this chicken and egg problem is resolved by learners of an artificial language comprising nouns, verbs, adjectives, and case markers following…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Nouns
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Areljung, Sofie – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2020
This article seeks to contribute new perspectives to the ontology and epistemology of preschool science education by exploring the idea of using everyday verbs, rather than nouns, to discern possibilities for science learning in preschool. Herein, the author merges empirical examples from preschools with findings from research on children's noun…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Science Education, Language Usage, Verbs
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Pappert, Sandra; Bock, Bettina M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Easy-to-read (ETR) German is the subject of public debate. Even though it is heavily promoted by officials, its status is controversial. Moreover, the comprehensibility of ETR German texts awaits systematic testing. The aim of the present study was to test a controversial rule concerning word segmentation. Hypotheses derived from psycholinguistic…
Descriptors: German, Readability, Intellectual Disability, Reading Skills
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Roberts, Jenny A.; Altenberg, Evelyn P.; Hunter, Madison – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The results of automatic machine scoring of the Index of Productive Syntax from the Computerized Language ANalysis (CLAN) tools of the Child Language Data Exchange System of TalkBank (MacWhinney, 2000) were compared to manual scoring to determine the accuracy of the machine-scored method. Method: Twenty transcripts of 10 children from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Scoring, Computational Linguistics, Child Language
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Edmonds, Amanda; Gudmestad, Aarnes – Language Learning, 2023
Usage-based approaches to additional-language acquisition have identified numerous determinants of language learning, two of which were the focus of our study: frequency and cue contingency. Specifically, we examined how an immersion experience may impact sensitivity to these two determinants as reflected in the production of 4,808 pairs of nouns…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Usage, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning
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Yakpo, Kofi – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
Suriname represents an interesting case of unidirectional multilingual convergence in a linguistic area. The multilingual ecology of Suriname is hierarchical. The Germanic language Dutch exerts structural and lexical influence 'downwards', but other languages do not do so 'upwards' to the same degree. This study analyses the development of word…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Classification, Indo European Languages, Foreign Countries
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