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Hornberger, Nancy H.; Tapia, Aldo Anzures; Hanks, David H.; Dueñas, Frances Kvietok – Language Teaching, 2018
A decade ago, Hornberger & Johnson proposed that the ethnography of language planning and policy (ELPP) offers a useful way to understand how people create, interpret, and at times resist language policy and planning (LPP). They envisioned ethnographic investigation of layered LPP ideological and implementational spaces, taking up Hornberger's…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Planning, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
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Biau, Emmanuel; Fromont, Lauren A.; Soto-Faraco, Salvador – Language Learning, 2018
We tested the prosodic hypothesis that the temporal alignment of a speaker's beat gestures in a sentence influences syntactic parsing by driving the listener's attention. Participants chose between two possible interpretations of relative-clause (RC) ambiguous sentences, while their electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. We manipulated the…
Descriptors: Syntax, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Hypothesis Testing
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Johnson, Lisa M.; Di Paolo, Marianna; Bell, Adrian – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
Automated alignment of transcriptions to audio files expedites the process of preparing data for acoustic analysis. Unfortunately, the benefits of auto-alignment have generally been available only to researchers studying majority languages, for which large corpora exist and for which acoustic models have been created by large-scale research…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, Models, Computational Linguistics
Showalter, Catherine E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty with novel L2 phonological contrasts, limiting their ability to establish contrastive lexical representations of L2 words. It has been demonstrated that the availability of orthographic input (OI), and variables interacting with OI, can shape the inferences learners make about L2…
Descriptors: Russian, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Linguistic Input
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Ivanova, Iva; Ferreira, Victor S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Four picture-description experiments investigated if syntactic formulation in language production can proceed with only minimal working memory involvement. Experiments 1-3 compared the initiation latencies, utterance durations, and errors for syntactically simpler picture descriptions (adjective-noun phrases, e.g., "the red book") to…
Descriptors: Syntax, Short Term Memory, Correlation, Phrase Structure
Antonio, Abigail F.; Bacang, Bernardita G.; Rillo, Richard M.; Alieto, Ericson O.; Caspillo, Warrelen D. C. – Online Submission, 2019
This study is one of the pioneers in investigating and analyzing the orthographical conventions/norms of the outer circle Asian Englishes using one of the largest databases of English corpus, the Global Web-based English (GloWbE). This study extends the analysis of the current orthographical norms of the new varieties to their colonial parents.…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Computational Linguistics, Databases
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Patterson, Katie J. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This paper addresses the issues with current systems of categorisation and measurement of linguistic metaphoricity, which have coloured most research into the area to-date. The paper discusses the role of metaphor as a form of creative language and a deviation from more linguistic norms and conventionalities. Two current theories are discussed as…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Priming, Classification, Linguistic Theory
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Sedlmeier, Peter; Tipandjan, Arun; Jänchen, Anastasia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Does the language we speak shape the way we think? The present research concentrated on the impact of grammatical gender on cognition and examined the persistence of the grammatical gender effect by (a) concentrating on German, a three-gendered language, for which previous results have been inconsistent, (b) statistically controlling for common…
Descriptors: Grammar, German, Dravidian Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
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Xu, Qi – English Language Teaching, 2016
The present paper is a review of literature in relation to formulaic sequences and the implications for second language learning. The formulaic sequence is a significant part of our language, and plays an essential role in both first and second language learning. The paper first introduces the definition, classifications, and major features of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Literature Reviews, Definitions, Classification
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King, Kendall A.; Mackey, Alison – Modern Language Journal, 2016
The field of second language studies is using increasingly sophisticated methodological approaches to address a growing number of urgent, real-world problems. These methodological developments bring both new challenges and opportunities. This article briefly reviews recent ontological and methodological debates in the field, then builds on these…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Epistemology
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Rankin, Tom; Unsworth, Sharon – Second Language Research, 2016
A generative approach to language acquisition is no different from any other in assuming that target language input is crucial for language acquisition. This discussion note addresses the place of input in generative second language acquisition (SLA) research and the perception in the wider field of SLA research that generative SLA…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Input
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Al-Zubaidi, Nassier A. G.; Jasim, Tahani Awad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The present paper is a genre analysis of linguistics books prefaces in English and Arabic. Following Swales' (1990) genre framework, this study is a small scale-based generic analysis of 80 preface texts, equally divided into 40 texts from English and Arabic. The corpus analysis revealed that to perform its communicative function, the genre of the…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Computational Linguistics, Language Styles, Books
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Rao, Rajiv; Kuder, Emily – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
This paper creates a novel link between research on linguistics and education by discussing what we know about the sound system of heritage language users of Spanish and how these findings can inform practices implemented in heritage Spanish courses in the USA. First, we provide an overview of terminology associated with heritage language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Phonetics
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Wang, Yanlong – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The paper interprets Whorf's notion by turning to his original writings. Specifically, the paper makes a detailed analysis of Whorf's notion from anthropological linguistics, which largely deals with his famous distinction between overt category and covert category and his detailed description of the American Indian language Hopi; contrastive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
Frazer, Alexandra Kate – ProQuest LLC, 2016
We still know surprisingly little about how grammatical structures are selected for use in sentence production. A major debate concerns whether structural selection is competitive or noncompetitive. Competitive accounts propose that alternative structures or structural components actively suppress one another's activation until one option reaches…
Descriptors: Grammar, Syntax, Hypothesis Testing, Language Research
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