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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Comparative and general"”.
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Second language processing of wh-movement in English : the effects of first language and learning environment
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2010
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An optimality-theoretic analysis of syllable structure in Qassimi Arabic
… phenomena in QA have not been fully addressed and understood because QA has not received attention in the available literature on syllable structure within Arabic dialects. Thus, the present study aims to provide an analysis of syllable structure in QA and to contribute to the current research …
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Phonological pitch
… Phonological Pitch, concerns the representation and behavior of the tone feature. It is a formally simple phonological theory constrained by a set of explicit extragrammatical principles. Phonological Pitch contains two major grammatical mechanisms. First, tone is represented with a single …
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Transformational Grammar and Problems of Syntactic Ambiguity in English
… (3) to apply transformational processes and explanations whenever possible, and (4) to give some specific methods for removing ambiguities from written English.</p>
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Deviance of syntax in oral languages and oral reading behavior
… be evident in oral r eading behaviour. Using Lee and Canter's Developmental i 1 Sentence Scoring technique (1971) and Y. Goodman and Burke's Reading Miscue Inventory (1972) linguistic competence was established in t hree male children. ages 10 to 11. patterns of strengths and weaknesses in reading …
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The Nominative-Accusative Neuter Plural in Anatolian
This dissertation investigates the formations and history of the nominative-accusative neuter plural in the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. The central five chapters contain attestations of neuter plurals, accompanied by philological discussion. Forms have been collected from all texts …
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L2 gender facilitation and inhibition in spoken word recognition
… the role of grammatical gender facilitation and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers to when a given noun …
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Past tense marking in Chinese-English interlanguage.
… of the functional feature T(ense) [+/-past] in Mandarin Chinese. If a particular functional feature is missing in a learner's L1 grammar, it is thought that it will be absent in one's L2 grammar as well. Three advanced Chinese speakers of English were tested on the past tense marking in their IL …