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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Morphemes"”.
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The acquisition of plural morphemes in Korean
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Linguistics, 2010
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The pragmatics and syntax of pragmatic morphemes in Korean
… describing the uses of some selected Pragmatic Morphemes (PMs) in Korean and giving an account of their syntactic behaviors in the GPSG framework. First, according to the Cooperative Principle, I describe how the speaker uses a PM and how the hearer understands it. I claim that a PM has one …
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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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Lexical and Language Modeling of Diacritics and Morphemes in Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition
Arabic is a morphologically rich language which rarely displays diacritics. These two features of the language pose challenges when building Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Morphological complexity leads to many possible combinations of stems and affixes to form words, and produces …
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… The average percent accuracy of grammatical morphemes was calculated and analyzed as a function of MLUw in Spanish. Results show that the percentage of accurately produced morphemes has a general upward trend as MLUw increases. Clinical and research implications are discussed.
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Extending the Morpheme Order Studies: Acquisition of Modal and Non-Modal Verbal Morphemes by ESL Learners
… 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 morphemes and studies the order of their acquisition. Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs) were used to examine a total of twenty-seven ESL …
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The development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young second language learners within a conversational context
… study of the development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young children using English as a second language in a classroom context. The theoretical standpoint adopted is that first and second language development in 'natural' contexts is facilitated by the same underlying …
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Individual variation and the role of L1 in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes: insights from learner corpora
… language (L2) development of English grammatical morphemes and explain the findings with existing SLA theories. The dissertation investigates the L2 development of morphemes based on two largescale learner corpora. It first reviews the literature and points out that the L2 acquisition order of …
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Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
… This study addresses Korean inflectional morphemes, with a focus on case and postposition markers and affixal connectives. Data was collected from error analysis (EA) of inflectional morpheme errors and its source on semi-guided and self-generated writing samples, and grammaticality …
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A Morphological Study of the Antonymous Compounds in Chinese: How the Word Class Changes and Why
… of compounds. It is made up of two antonymous morphemes. The antonymous compounds undergo functional shift. In 40% percent of the cases, the compounds have different word classes from the morphemes. The thesis investigated how the functional shift happens and why it happens.</p> <p>Based on the …
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Morpheme Acquisition In Second Language Learners
… their acquisition of three specific English morphemes: indefinite articles used with singular count nouns, progressive -ing forms, and third person -s markers. The individuals were given an assessment test to place them at the correct level within the program prior to their selection for the …
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The relationship between lexical and non-lexical processes in spelling
… but that lexical information in the form of morphemes may also be used. Three experiments are described. The first is a phoneme-classification task used to test for the activation of morphemes in the lexicon; in the second and third experiments (carried out on adults and children …
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A list of initials and finals in Wôpanâak
… of lists of initial, medial and final verb morphemes in Wôpanâak. There are also lists of special initials and finals that function in different ways. Along with these lists are brief descriptions of the usage of the morphemes and the construction of Wôpanâak verbs. There are some notes on …
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Topics in Marma (မာရမာ)
… (2011). This research study analyzed several morphemes and their roles in shaping discourse structures in Marma information structure (topic-focus articulation). Marma has “agglutinative morphology”, meaning words are formed by stringing together morphemes in specific sequences. We observed …
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Sembolik oyunun 4 yaş çocuklarının dil kazanımına etkisi
… comparing the average mean length of utterance, morphemes amount of longest utterance and word amount of longest utterance. Mann Whitney U Test was used to analyze differences between scores by experimental and control groups. The gain scores of average mean length of utterance were significant ( …
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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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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… Taylor 1969, Frantz 2009) identifies sixteen morphemes that make up demonstrative words in the language. I propose a demonstrative template that takes into account the fixed morpheme ordering observed in demonstrative forms. Based on the proposed template, I motivate the analysis of the suffix …
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The Blackfoot demonstrative system: Function, form, and meaning
… Taylor 1969, Frantz 2009) identifies sixteen morphemes that make up demonstrative words in the language. I propose a demonstrative template that takes into account the fixed morpheme ordering observed in demonstrative forms. Based on the proposed template, I motivate the analysis of the suffix …
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