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Morpheme Alternants in Spanish
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Morpheme Acquisition In Second Language Learners
This study explored morpheme acquisition in learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Specifically, it looked at the development of eight selected individuals from Korea over the course of an intensive 8-week instruction program and tracked their acquisition of three specific English …
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A Grammar of *Case: The Head of a Semantic Filler, but a Nominative Morpheme
… of the syntax and semantics of the topic morpheme, and the ""topic-like"" nominative morpheme in Japanese. A case phrase, e.g., a nominative phrase, in general is analyzed as adjoining to a predicate and specifying a particularly case-registered argument of the predicate as identical to …
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Extending the Morpheme Order Studies: Acquisition of Modal and Non-Modal Verbal Morphemes by ESL Learners
The morpheme order studies have long prevailed in the field of second language acquisition. However, these studies are often undermined by their extent and focus on a limited number of morphemes. Thus, the present study extends the scope of morphemes to include modal verbs within other verbal …
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Segmentation of Manually Coded English: Problems in the mapping of English in the visual/gestural mode
… can be effectively translated literally, morpheme for morpheme, into a signed language. Moreover, it investigates whether there are further structural constraints specific to signed languages which create restrictions in their typology and learnability.
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… analysis was to define norms for grammatical morpheme development in Spanish for Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4;0-7;6. This study uses secondary data analysis based on two existing datasets. Participants included 334 Spanish-English bilingual children that were recruited from school …
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Disentangling morphosyntax from morphophonology: a re-evaluation of morphological priming
The notion of morpheme as the smallest unit of form with a meaning has been widely abandoned by theoretical morphologists due to its empirical inadequacy (Matthews 1972, Anderson 1992, Aronoff 1993, Hall and Marantz 1993, Aronoff and Sims 2023). Instead, contemporary approaches to morphology argue …
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On the Temporal Interpretation of Epistemic Modals: Evidence from Palestinian Arabic
… of the epistemic modal, a silent present tense morpheme and an aspectual head morpheme derive either a present-oriented reading when the aspectual head is empty, or a future-oriented reading in presence of a silent prospective aspect. Further, interaction of these linearized combinations with …
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The phonology and morphology of Marrithiyel : a preliminary study
… The first slot is always filled by a subject morpheme. The third slot takes morphemes encoding object, indirect object, locative - allatives (of intransitives), or information about transitivity, the choice of which morpheme appears being determined by a strict selection hierarchy. Cross …
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The phonology and morphology of Marrithiyel : a preliminary study
… The first slot is always filled by a subject morpheme. The third slot takes morphemes encoding object, indirect object, locative - allatives (of intransitives), or information about transitivity, the choice of which morpheme appears being determined by a strict selection hierarchy. Cross …
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Conceptualizing Variation in Greek Exodus and Postclassical Greek
… the translator(s) rendered nearly every Hebrew morpheme with a corresponding morpheme in Greek. In fact, this lexical pairing was even more important than conveying meaning, for meaning was not the translator(s) ‘intention.’ Although these sentiments still abound, recent studies in variationist …
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The Acquisition of Five Specific Morphemes by English-Speaking Preschool Children
… research was to study the acquisition of the morphemes involved in the production of the noun plural and possessive, the present progressive tense, the third person singular of the verb and the regular past tense. Research had documented that a time lapse existed between the time that a child …
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An investigation of how multiple sources of information are integrated during online reading
… letters that are swapped between the word’s morphemes or that stay within a single morpheme, when these words are encountered in a meaningful sentence context. Will readers weight word- level information more heavily (i.e., letter order, morpheme boundaries), or will the general semantic …
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An Interlinear Analysis of Seven Kalispel Texts From Hans Vogt
… analyzed by Vogt. Here, they are analyzed at the morpheme level, providing data for further research on the language and for language documentation and preservation purposes. The thesis includes an introductory section with background and methodology, the interlinearized texts, and a list of …
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An Interlinear Analysis of Seven Kalispel Texts From Hans Vogt
… analyzed by Vogt. Here, they are analyzed at the morpheme level, providing data for further research on the language and for language documentation and preservation purposes. The thesis includes an introductory section with background and methodology, the interlinearized texts, and a list of …
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The Verb in Transitional Libyan Arabic: Morphomes, the Stem space and Principal parts
Should we analyse Arabic morphology in terms of a morpheme-based approach or in terms of a stem-based approach? This is the question which has figured prominently in morphological debate in recent years, especially in Semitic linguistics with ablaut-rich inflectional systems. This study provides a …
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(Negative) concord and head directionality in Western Armenian
… Armenian. I label a structure as concord if two morphemes found in the same clause bear the same feature, yet only result in one semantic interpretation of that feature. The main focus of the thesis is that of negative concord in Western Armenian. Other concord phenomena are also examined: …
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
This paper concerns itself with the superlative morpheme -est and its ability to license Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) such as any or ever, and in particular the compositional analysis of a puzzling type of utterance which incorporates these grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause …
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Topics in the Grammar of Koryak
… that the distribution of the segments v and w in morpheme-final position needs to be handled by a phonological process that applies to bare morphemes. In the second chapter, I argue for a similar conclusion regarding the language’s vowel harmony system. Both of these chapters there- fore argue for …
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Dao as a verbal suffix in Chinese verbs
… show that dao is the most frequent grammatical morpheme to occur directly after perception verbs and has a function of assigning the feature of achievement verb to the entire verb compound. Furthermore, this thesis also discusses novel dao use in internet language where dao is being infixed in …
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