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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Phrasal"”.
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Aspects of IsiXhosa phrasal phonology
This thesis examines the prosodic phenomena of IsiXhosa by employing features of both the Theory of the Prosodic Hierarchy and the Theory of Domains. Taken as a given that the application of phonological processes is determined by well-defined linguistic units, it is argued here that post-lexical …
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Phrasal Document Analysis for Modeling
Specifications of digital hardware systems are typically written in a natural language. The objective of this research is automatic information extraction from specifications to aid model generation for system level design automation. This is done by automatic extraction of the noun phrases and the …
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A uniform syntax for phrasal movement : a case study of Dinka Bor
This dissertation argues that all instances of phrasal movement are the result of Agree and Merge (Chomsky 1995, 2001), and, in addition to this, that the existence of different types of movement derives solely from variation in properties of the feature involved in the Agree relation. Guided by …
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Transfers from Venetan and Trentino dialects in the processing of English phrasal verbs
… In the present study, we elected to use phrasal verbs as a means of investigating dialect-to-language transfer in dialect speakers acquiring English at school. In fact, phrasal verbs are present in the English language as compositional or idiomatic form, as well as in some Italian-Romance …
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O processo tradutório dos phrasal verbs: efeitos de literalidade e de idiomaticidade em funcionamento
… constituem o processo tradutório dos phrasal verbs materializados na obra The Great Gatsby. Para tanto, nossa reflexão e discussão baseiam-se em estudos históricos (CLARIDGE, 2000; THIM, 2012, só para citar alguns) acerca da construção dos phrasal verbs, abrindo caminho para tomarmos …
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Effective Techniques for Teaching Phrasal Verbs to Improve Communicate Competence of Chinese English learners
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Fostering conceptual metaphors in vocabulary teaching. Phrasal verbs in Spanish Secondary Education: A pedagogical implementation
… nativos es su control fluido e idiomático de los phrasal verbs (PVs) (Pawley y Syder, 1983). A pesar de su frecuencia, la complejidad semántica y sintáctica de los PVs hace que su uso sea una de las tareas más difíciles para los estudiantes de inglés como lengua extranjera (Laufer y Eliasson, …
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Percy Grainger’s “Hill-Song Nr. 1”: A critical edition, wind band transcription, and phrasal analysis
Percy Grainger never had the opportunity to hear his original scoring of “Hill-Song Nr. 1”, since he considered the instrumentation of two piccolos, six oboes, six English horns, six bassoons, and contrabassoon to be too infeasible. Indeed, he only ever produced a manuscript score of this version, …
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Polysemous English phrasal verbs: EFL textbook distribution, students' receptive and productive knowledge and teachers' beliefs in the Greek Cypriot context
… sequences such as idioms, collocations and phrasal verbs constitute an essential part of English vocabulary and a crucial element of foreign language learners’ communicative competence. While substantial research has been carried out on idioms and collocations comparatively fewer studies …
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THE ACQUISITION OF PHRASAL VERBS THROUGH ENHANCED AUDIOVISUAL CAPTIONS. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUBTITLING TOOL FOR EFL LEARNERS
… lexico-grammatical items, such as English phrasal verbs (PVs). Although TIE techniques have been successfully employed to enhance learning of linguistic features like individual words and grammatical structures, the application of these methods for phrasal verb acquisition via subtitled …
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Analysing Java Identifier Names
… content types - words, abbreviations, etc. - and phrasal structures - noun phrases, verb phrases, etc. - by improving techniques for the analysis of identifier names. The techniques and knowledge acquired can be applied to improve program comprehension tools that support internal code quality, …
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Comparing the effects of traditional and virtual reality enhanced task-based language instruction on Chinese L1-English L2 knowledge of phrasal verbs
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A Study of the Linguistic Semantic and Sociolinguistic Components of the English Modal System
… focus is upon the one-word modals and not the phrasal modals; however, some phrasal modals are explicated when a contrast exists between the meaning of the one-word modal and its phrasal equivalent. After the modal is defined, problem areas of form and meaning are explicated. Then, a review of …
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A restrictive theory of morphosyntactic interaction and its consequences
… It is argued that while morphological and phrasal rules belong to distinct rule systems, they do not define distinct components. In contrast to the proponents of Strong Lexicalism, I develop a theory in which the components of syntax and lexicon are freed from inherent association with …
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High Initial Tones and Plateaux in Spanish and Portuguese Neutral Declaratives: Consequences to the Relevance of F0, Duration and Vowel Quality as Stress Correlates
… position not only express lexical stress, but phrasal tones as well. According to these results the phrasal tones in Brazilian Portuguese can be presented in the intonational contour as either peaks or plateaux. Results also suggest that duration in Spanish does not play a crucial role as it …
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What Happens to the Where, When and How in Malay?
… they do, if this is feature movement or covert phrasal movement.
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Subset comparatives as comparative quantifiers
… analyses that give subset comparatives a phrasal analysis.
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The teaching of the impersonal and passive SE in first and second year Spanish textbooks.
… an examination of the instruction of these two phrasal constructions in the six textbooks. The purpose of this study is to understand how these two important uses of the pronoun SE are described to first and second-year Spanish students.
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Comparative Constructions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA): An HPSG approach.
… MSA has both ordinary clausal comparatives and phrasal comparatives. The former is introduced only by maa and involves adjectival and nominal gaps and adverbial gaps in subcomparative cases and the latter is introduced by free relatives maa , man and allḏai and have either nominal gaps or …
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