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Showing 1 to 20 of 352 for “"native speakers"”.
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Formation of the plural in English : a study of native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish
… foundation. Two linguistic samples were used--native speakers of English and native speakers of Spanish in San Antonio, Texas. An attempt was made to approximate the longitudinal process of acquisition of plurals through apparent time by having as Subjects pupils in the first, second, third and …
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Verbs in the written English of Chinese learners : a corpus-based comparison between non-native speakers and native speakers
This thesis consists of ten chapters and its research methodology is a combination of quantitative and qualitative. Chapter One introduces the theme of the thesis, a demonstration of a corpus-based comparative approach in detecting the needs of the learners by looking for the similarities and …
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Common Difficulties in English for Non-Native Speakers
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:35:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7310019.pdf: 7855862 bytes, checksum: 6752500396268d5a7052bf382d246c1f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Production of German L2 Stress by Native Speakers of English
… more important for the comprehensibility of non-native speech than grammatical accuracy. Studies indicate that incorrect stress patterns in an L2 are mainly due to transfer from learners’ first language (L1). This thesis examines the effect of training on the ability of English native speakers …
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Native Speakers' Reactions to Non -Native Stress in English Discourse
… evidence supporting the general hypothesis that native speakers process, understand, and respond more positively to non-native English speech when primary stress is used correctly compared to when it is not. Practical implications include suggestions for incorporating the teaching of English …
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The Development of Word Recognition Materials for Native Speakers of Tongan
… words were digitally recorded by male and female native talkers of Tongan. The psychometric performance of the words was measured at ten intensity levels (- 5 to 40 dB HL) in 5 dB increments by 20 listeners with normal hearing acuity. The 200 words with the highest rate of listener identification …
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Pragmatic Competence and Transferability: Native and Non-Native Speakers of Portuguese
… question the current view of the relevance of ""native speaker competence"" in second language acquisition literature. The study points out the implications of the coexistence of two or more language systems in a speaker's mind and their influence on his/her sociocultural values and …
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Academic and Social Experiences of Spanish Native Speakers in an Immersion Program
… The participants were a sample of 12 Spanish native speakers who were working towards acquiring both social and academic English. Additionally, the researcher interviewed five other students who were in the Spanish immersion program, but who were not included in the ESOL class. These 17 …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… regulate wh-extraction in English, similar to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a word-by-word non-cumulative moving window paradigm (Just et al., 1982). Experiment 1 tested if second language (L2) learners process wh-dependencies incrementally by …
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Persian
… with those of Sheldon (1977) for adult English speakers and Houston (1978) for the Saudis. For the Arabs, unlike Iranians, Parallel Function was found to be significant.
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The Acquisition of English Restrictive Relative Clauses by Native Speakers of Arabic
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:12:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913490.pdf: 4348804 bytes, checksum: 08220989b6e56e7018b48a1454433d36 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Parafoveal preview during reading in Russian: native speakers and second language learners
… morphology of nouns and verbs in Russian by native speakers and L2 learners via the boundary-change paradigm (Rayner, 1975) and it’s modified within-word version (Hyöna, Bertram, and Pollatsek, 2004). Syntactic position of the target word and allocation of attention on the target word …
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The acquisition of the Pro-drop parameter by non-native speakers of Spanish
Chomsky's (1981, 1995) principles and parameters proposal for language acquisition theory assumes that the child is genetically endowed with principles of Universal Grammar. These principles interact with environmental data to determine the particular language that the child will learn. Research …
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The Perception and Production of Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Native Speakers of American English
… correct or incorrect by linguistically trained native Brazilians. To test for perception, informants were evaluated on their ability to distinguish between tokens (individual vowel sounds) spoken in context by native Brazilian speakers. These tokens used to test perception were recorded in a …
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The Acquisition of English Sentential Complementation by Adult Native Speakers of Puerto Rican Spanish
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7708918.pdf: 3741143 bytes, checksum: 077efb138b18b52c14c58d0be16b8311 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… been conducted so far for the most part with the native speakers of western languages and cultures. No systematic study has been done with native speakers of Chinese. The present study is motivated by a series of studies done by Olshtain and Cohen on· apology behavior, and is an attempt a) to …
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The production of English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese and Korean
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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From text to context: Literacy practices of native speakers of Arabic in Arabic and English
… studies that looked at the written product of native speakers of Arabic in their second language (L2), English, have identified traces of Arabic rhetoric (L1), mainly Classical Arabic, in their writing (e.g., Atari, 1983; Kaplan, 1966; Ostler, 1987). These studies focused primarily on the …
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The processing and production of prosodic focus in French by native and non-native speakers
… that are qualitatively similar to those of native speakers for linguistic content that is not explicitly taught in the classroom. It does so by focusing on the domains of speech processing and speech production in L2 learners. Specifically, this dissertation investigates the processing and …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… that influence reanalysis processes in native and non-native processing of English and Mandarin garden-path sentences (Chapters 2 and 3) and the relationship between the amount of reanalysis and final interpretation of such sentences (Chapter 4). Verb bias refers to the likelihood of a …
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