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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"past tense"”.
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Past Tense Route Priming
… locally biased by experimental list context in past tense verb inflection in younger and older adults. During each trial, participants produced the past tense verb from a present tense verb. List context was manipulated across blocks such that context trials consisted of either regular past …
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Past tense marking in Chinese-English interlanguage.
This data study concentrates on the past tense marking in the interlanguage (IL) of Chinese speakers of English. Following the assumptions of Hawkins & Lizska, (2003), it is assumed that unlike native speakers of English, Chinese speakers of English have a higher level of optionality within the …
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“Who Breaked the Rule?”: Rethinking English Past Tense Overregularizations
… at around 3 years of age. These forms, called past tense overregularizations, show that children have implicitly discovered the past tense formation rule: namely, “add ‘–ed’ to a verb to create the past tense.” But does it take children until age 3 to discover such rules? This dissertation …
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Writing Conventions for English Language Learners: A Study of the Use of the Past Tense
… of explicit language lessons on the use of past tense in children’s writing.</p> <p>Effectiveness was measured by student performance on teacher-designed pre- and post-assessment of writing samples. Participants included 19 third grade students in a suburban area north of San Francisco. …
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Investigating past tense errors committed by Grade 10 English First Additional Language learners in Tshinane Circuit, Vhembe District
This study was aimed at analysing the written past tense errors of irregular verbs committed by Grade 10 English First Additional Language (FAL) learners, in five selected schools in Tshinane Circuit, Vhembe District in Limpopo Province. Grade 10 serves as the basis for the Further Education and …
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Words and rules in the brain
… mental processes underlie regular and irregular past tense formation: regular forms are rule-generated ('add -ed'), whereas irregular forms are retrieved from memory. These mental processes are hypothesized to engage distinct neural mechanisms. The goal of the present thesis was to localize and …
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Production of regular and non-regular verbs : evidence for a lexical entry complexity account
… of regularity has only been explored for the past tense, where regularity is overtly visible. To explore the representation and encoding of regularity as well as the inflectional processes involved in the production of regular and non-regular verbs, this dissertation investigated three groups …
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How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?
… context-dependent words were taught: irregular past tense verbs and function words. The words were embedded either in scrambled contexts or in meaningful sentence contexts. Three different instructional conditions to teach the words were compared. In the Meaningful Context condition, students …
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A syntactic and semantic study of the tense and aspect system of modern Persian
… that there is no satisfactory description of the tense and aspect system of Modern Persian. This dissertation is the first attempt to study the syntax and semantics of Modem Persian verb forms in the light of recent discussions of tense and aspect. This study falls into six chapters. Chapter 0 …
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The acquisition of split-ergativity in Kurmanji Kurdish
… where the direct case is used with both present-tense agents and past-tense patients and the oblique case is used with past-tense agents and present-tense patients. However, recent research suggests the weakening of ergativity in Kurmanji (Dorleijn 1996), resulting in variable use of …
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The Death of Lily
… the narrative is told in third person-present tense, third person limited-past tense, and first person. Divided into three parts, the novel rotates between first person monologues and third person chapters, except for part two, which is told entirely in third person limited-past tense. In using …
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
… written feedback on errors with the simple past tense, the present perfect tense, dropped pronouns, and pronominal duplication. This inquiry also considered the extent to which learner differences in language-analytic ability (LAA), as measured by the LLAMA F, mediated the effects of these …
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Structural transfer in third language acquisition: the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English
… event which took place and was completed in the past. The linguistic phenomena under study inform us that English uses the simple past in a past completed event while French and Lingala use the ‘passé composé’ and the remote or recent past, respectively. The study circumscribes the tense …
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Eolian morphosyntax: A comparative Romance perspective
… with kinship terms, (b) the distribution of past tense forms, (c) finite and non-finite complementation, and (d) pseudocoordination. Each section consists of a description of data obtained through fieldwork and offers an analysis rooted in the cartographic framework. A comparative approach, …
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Narrative Method and Point of View in Bleak Houe
… of its sixty-seven chapters are narrated in the past tense, first person, by a young woman, Esther Summerson. Her chapters occupy 464 of the 880 pages of the Oxford Illustrated edition and appeared in all but five of the original twenty serial numbers; Number XII consisted entirely of her …
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Genes and environment in language acquisition : a study of early vocabulary and syntactic development in twins
… and of first over regularizations of the past tense rule "add -ed'' (e.g., goed for went) were also studied by parent report to examine the contributions of heredity and environment to the development of syntax. Both the age of producing first word combinations and the rate of producing …
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Waves of Cement
… the stories are set in modern day and written in past tense.
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A contextual analysis of definite and indefinite interpretations of tense
This dissertation analyzes tense, in particular the past tense, within English in the framework of formal semantics. Previous tense theories are either indexical or quantificational—whether tenses refer to time or an existentially quantified time interval prior to the time of utterance suffices for …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less frequent use of the …
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Language Change in Spanish Heritage Speakers: the Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
… factors limit heritage language exposure, tense and aspect morphology is susceptible to change (Guijarro-Fuentes & Clibbens 2004). Findings of a study on 11 Chilean-American heritage speakers show that production of the preterit is overextending, resulting in less frequent use of the …
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