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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"cross-linguistic"”.
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Temporal interpretation and cross-linguistic variation
… future shifter (which is covert in Medumba). Cross-linguistic variation in whether or not a future marker is compatible with non-future interpretation is proposed to be predictable from the aspectual architecture of the given language.
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A Cross-Linguistic Investigation of Phonetic Symbolism
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A cross-linguistic study of Broca's aphasia
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1981.
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Epistemic action and language : a cross-linguistic study
… inherently spatial in nature. In this regard, a cross-linguistic replication of an experiment by Maglio et al. (1999) which required participants to produce as many words as possible within five minutes from a string of seven random letters was performed in order to investigate epistemic actions …
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Locative expressions in signed languages: A cross-linguistic comparison
… <p>This thesis shows that sign languages do not linguistically pattern similarly to spoken languages along the ON-IN continuum. One reason for this could be the vast difference in modality between signed and spoken languages. Essentially, locative constructions in sign languages contain visual …
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Cross -Linguistic Effects on L2 Acquisition: An Investigation of *Aspect
The findings reveal that intermediate level L2 learners were sensitive to the semantic contrasts that are instantiated in their L1, but they did not recognize the contrast if the semantic entailment is different between their L1 and L2, which suggests L1 transfer.
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Questioning Particles: A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Quebec French Polar Interrogatives
This thesis examines the syntactic properties of the polar interrogative particle tu in Quebec French. Its goals are to better understand the role of tu in the grammar of Quebec French and to contribute to the study of interrogative particles in general. Three questions are posed which are intended …
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… measures. This finding implied that English linguistic gains of repeated exposure were most likely muted by entrenched L1 semantic knowledge. Overall, the results showed that loanwords are generally acquired with greater difficulty than non-loanwords and that they should not always be …
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A cross-linguistic study of requestive speech acts in email communication
… questionnaire was also constructed to assess the cross-cultural suitability of the situations, and to further examine the participants' awareness of the contextual constraints, and their reported perceptions of the effect of the constraints on their request formulations. The data obtained from the …
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Hedging in Written Academic Discourse: a cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study /
… is to identify hedging devices and functions in linguistic and medical research articles in Lithuanian and English and to explore to what extent hedging is language-specific and discipline-specific. As there is a great variety of linguistic resources which convey the pragmatic function of …
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The numeral system of Japanese Sign Language from a cross-linguistic perspective
… be characterised with respect to aspects of the linguistic structure of JSL numerals at the phonological and morphological levels; to typological comparisons with other sign languages; and, finally, to sociolinguistic variation. Data for JSL were collected, using various elicitation games, from a …
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Geometric and Extra-Geometric Spatial Conceptualisation: A cross-linguistic and non-verbal perspective
… the extent to which the framework applies across languages has not been established. The current thesis investigated whether geometric and extra-geometric factors affect production and comprehension of spatial language across three languages; English, Finnish and Spanish. Eight …
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Cognitive Determinants of Linguistic Structures: A Cross-Linguistic Experimental Study of Sentence Production
The present study is intended as a contribution to the study of the relationship between language and thought in the area of sentence production.
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… better understanding of which factors determine cross-linguistic influence in the multilingual mind and what the role of previously acquired languages is in the acquisition of any language beyond the L2. The three languages of the multilingual participants have dative alternation, although it …
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A cross-linguistic study of certain temporal features of speech in stuttering and nonstuttering children
Four experiments were performed to measure temporal coarticulatory speech features in the perceptually fluent speech of 120 South African children. The aim was to test, in a limited way, the postulate that stuttering may be essentially a disorder of speech timing. Comparisons were made between …
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A Study of Temporal Variables in English and Korean: Cross-Linguistic, Development, and Native/nonnative Analyses
The present study investigated temporal phenomena in language production, using English and Korean stories based on a film. The temporal variables included were primary temporal variables (speech rate, articulation rate, pause-time ratio, mean length of runs, and mean length of pauses), secondary …
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The role of cross-linguistic formal similarity in Hungarian-German bilingual learners of English as a foreign language
Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Untersuchung interlingualer lexikalischer Prozesse von Worterkennung und-zugriff bei ungarndeutschen Bilingualen, die Englisch als Fremdsprache erlernen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Rolle von Kognaten. Ziel der Studie ist es, die Prozesse lexikalischer …
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Cross-linguistic transfer in third language acquisition: a comparative study of Mandarin L2 and Guangxi Cantonese L3 learners of English
… to learners’ English proficiency level and linguistic background in the written retell and translation tasks. The results show that there is only a significant difference in the category of additions between the different proficiency levels in the L3 group in the written retell task and a …
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