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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Grammatical categories"”.
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Code-mixing of Arabic and English in a university science-teaching context : frequency, grammatical categories, and attitudes
… exist in the language of instruction ? (2) Which grammatical categories are susceptible to being rendered by English ? and (3) What are the general trends of students' attitudes toward code-mixing ? (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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A sensitive period for second language acquismon: A reaction-time study of grammaticality juooments of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… or by confounding affective factors? (4) What grammatical categories are most affected by age? For this purpose, 60 Korean speakers of English were tested for their ability to judge the grammaticality of 96 English sentences in 12 grammatical categories, employing a reaction-time procedure. …
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A relação sintatico-semântica dos verbos e seus argumentos na língua brasileira de sinais (Libras)
… necessary to rethink about language typologies, grammatical categories and to do a field researching. The verb was presented as a lexical item that has a root where aggregate other elements: the agreement marks and satellites. So the verb is a net and its arguments must be submitted to rules that …
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A semantic network approach to second language vocabulary learning and its implementation in a computerized lexical database
… of the semantic network for words of different grammatical categories, the number of words in the presentation, the selection and ordering of words in the presentation, the use of visual aids and the role of concordance. An actual program, CONCEPT, is constructed to illustrate the implementation …
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Linguistic relativity: Loci and conditions of emergence
… learning (more specifically learning a novel grammatical morphological system highlighting the familiar concept of event (in)transitivity) can indeed induce linguistic relativity effects. Regarding the loci, such effects were found in both higher-level decision processes (i.e., learning this …
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The Forgotten Trope: Metonymy in Poetic Action
… metonymic occurrences are isolated. Contrasting categories of metonymy are established as they emerge from the corpus and analysed in their individual structure and shared characteristics. Further examples from German poetry are adduced for illustration and comparison as and where appropriate. On …
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A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dzongkha: Variation inFinal Nasals and Rhotics
… with internal (phonetic environment, tone, grammatical category, phrase position) and external (style, sex, age, region, education) explanatory factors. Data came from thirty-six participants originating in three regional communities (Eastern native Tshangla speakers, Western native Dzongkha …
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Network Dynamics of Visual Naming
… in the storage and retrieval of separate grammatical categories. To characterize subsequent activity within prefrontal cortex, we used measures of information flow to investigate the network dynamics of speech production. Unlike sensory processing, we found distinct processing stages …
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The perfect in Old English and Old Saxon: the synchronic and diachronic correspondence of form and meaning
… languages developed new tense forms allowing the grammatical expression of fine semantic distinctions, including periphrastic perfects and pluperfects; previously, the preterite alone had been used to express semantic content of this sort. In the absence of robust quantitative data regarding the …
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Sensitive periods for second language acquisition: A reaction time study of the syntactic processing of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… by early exposure to that language. In terms of grammatical categories, the results indicated possible universal learnability factors that caused more difficulty in certain specific structures of the English language than in others.
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Perspectives on nominalization
… is possible only within a general theory of grammatical categories and processes. For a cross-linguistic analysis, it is preferable to adopt a function-based definition of categories, in which nominals are considered arguments of predications and verbals as predications. In such a view, nouns …
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Language Endangerment and Maintenance in the Arbresh of Piana Degli Albanesi
… Italian, Sicilian and Albanian. The state of grammatical structures is evaluated by analysis of certain grammatical categories, the state of the paradigms for these categories, and the state of their maintenance in speakers of different ages. The study of the revitalization process consists of …
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A contrastive analysis of the English and Nepali past tenses and an error analysis of Nepali learners' use of the English past tenses
… dissertation will enhance the understanding of grammatical categories such as tense and aspect in general and of Nepali tense and aspect systems in particular. In general, this dissertation showed contribute to several areas of study in discourse analysis, second language acquisition, language …
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Grammatical Analysis of Various Biblical Hebrew Texts According to a Traditional Semitic Grammar
Abstract GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS BIBLICAL HEBREW TEXTS ACCORDING TO A TRADITIONAL SEMITIC GRAMMAR Richard Charles McDonald, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2014 Chair: Dr. Russell T. Fuller Although linguistic Hebraists are dissatisfied with traditional grammatical …
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USING NEUROCOGNITIVE THEORY TO DEVELOP A NEW APPROACH FOR TEACHING GERMAN GRAMMAR The Effect of Color-Coding German Grammar on Language Acquisition
… learning, in particular on learning German grammatical features, by using neurocognitive theory to develop a new approach for teaching German grammar. The experiment was conducted in two separate environments, one in a natural setting of a regular beginner's German class in the German …