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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Language Description and Documentation"”.
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Searching for the semantic boundaries of the Japanese colour term 'ao'
The Japanese language has a colour term, 'ao' (or 'aoi'), which is usually referred to in bilingual dictionaries as being the equivalent of English 'blue'. Very often, however, it is used to describe things which English speakers would describe as being green. Granny Smith apples are 'ao', so are …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
… one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for inflexional suffixes, which occur in word final position. There are three basic allophones of aspirated segments: (i) post-aspirated; (ii) unaspirated, (iii) pre-aspirated, with pre-aspiration showing …
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Table of the Sun
… interrogation of varied ecological, romantic, and/or political disasters ranging from the Dakota Access Pipeline, cruel love, and Donald Trump. Some poems are reckonings, and others work to heal trauma, heartache, clinical illness, and supernatural afflictions like those experienced by the …
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Variation in Past Counterfactual Constructions
… are the past counterfactual conditional (Type 3) and the past counterfactual <em>wish</em> complement clause (PCWCC). Each of these has both a standard and variant form. The verb in the standard forms is <em>had</em> + past participle; the verb in the variant forms is <em>would have</em> + past …
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Defining Primary and Academic Discourse through Instructional Methods in a Single Junior High Classroom
… use of academic discourse in the school setting and discuss the relation of the primary discourse to academic discourse. I focus on the verbal exchanges between a teacher and her students as these students acquire the academic discourse of the English classroom. The study focuses on the ideas of …
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The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies
<p>This dissertation presents a description of the sound patterns of Kachok, Austroasiatic language spoken in northeastern Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The language is spoken by approximately 3000 people and is considered endangered (Simons & Fennig, 2018). Kachok is undocumented, and this …
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The Lived Experiences of Participants in the Euchee/Yuchi Language Project: A Phenomenological Study of Language Preservation
<p>Native languages are disappearing quickly in this country, but there are many programs that are underway trying to save Native languages before they are gone. One such program is the Euchee/Yuchi Language Project which uses a modified version of the Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program …
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TURKISH TO GO: TEACHING INTELLECTUAL SKILLS ONLINE
… fundamental phonological feature of the Turkish language. The purpose of the e-learning resource is to provide novice learners with a set of tools and strategies with which to approach the future study of Turkish.</p> <p>A literature review was conducted in three areas: Gagné’s instructional …