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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"word class"”.
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The Role of Grammatical Word Class in Second Language Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading
… initial gain and retention of grammatical class and word meaning, with evidence of greater gain and retention of grammatical class than word meaning. This finding indicates that certain categories of syntactic lexical information, such as grammatical class, may be learned more readily than …
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A Morphological Study of the Antonymous Compounds in Chinese: How the Word Class Changes and Why
<p>The majority of Chinese words are compounds. Among compounds, there is a special kind 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 …
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The Effect of Orthographic Mapping, Context, and Word Class on Sight Word Learning for Native and Nonnative English-Speakers
… not providing meanings, 3.) Does grammatical word class affect word learning, and 4.) Do these manipulations affect word learning differently in native and nonnative speakers? Additionally, this study investigated whether literacy and language skills predict the reading of words presented in …
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Behavioral and neural effects of training and word class in object and action naming in healthy subjects: Evidence from fMRI
… introduced multivariate searchlight pattern classification method for the analysis of training effects in language studies. We found that, compared to the standard GLM method, the searchlight analysis has comparable and, in some cases, greater sensitivity in localizing BOLD signal changes, …
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THE LATERALIZATION OF THE WORD FREQUENCY EFFECT
… to investigate the lateralization of the word frequency effect and the interaction with word class. Positive results would support proposals of multiple lexicons in lexical retrieval models. The first was a small-n experiment varying visual angle of presentation, signal to noise ratios, …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …
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Predication, reference and modification: Major word classes in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language
In this thesis, I investigate the word class system in Bumthang, a Tibeto-Burman language from central Bhutan. Word classes form a fundamental part of basic linguistic analysis, as tasks like writing phrase structure rules or positing derivational affixes require assumptions about how words in a …
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Prosodic and Syntactic Factors in the Phonetic Realization of Function Words in American English
Function (i.e., grammatical) words very frequently lack word-level stress and display phonetic reduction relative to content (i.e., lexical) words. However, word-class (function vs. content) may not be the only factor that affects phonetic realization of function words; prosodic and syntactic …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… challenge we face is the claim that all open class words in Indonesian, at least as it is spoken in some varieties (Gil 1994; Gil 2010), cannot linguistically be analysed as being distinct from each other. That is, there is no distiction between nouns, verbs or adjectives in Indonesian, and …
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An investigation into deviant morphology : issues in the implementation of a deep grammar for Indonesian
… challenge we face is the claim that all open class words in Indonesian, at least as it is spoken in some varieties (Gil 1994; Gil 2010), cannot linguistically be analysed as being distinct from each other. That is, there is no distiction between nouns, verbs or adjectives in Indonesian, and …
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English-derived words in Sierra Leone Krio
… Two discusses the Phonology of English-derived words in Krio. It examines the eclectic nature of the British' influence, discussing the systemic, phonotactic and phonetic features of the various British accents that may have contributed to the formation of modern Krio phonological structure. The …
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The relationship between visuospatial perception networks and visual confrontation naming in aphasia
… to a variety of phonological properties, such as word class, syllable properties, or frequency of target word use, which contribute to patterns of naming performance in aphasia [1,6,12,18,22,23,51,52,66,77]. However, analysis of the linguistic variables alone fails to explain some observed …
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Stress and Syncope in Tobruq Arabic an Eastern Libyan Dialect: A Stratal OT Account
… by two morphological factors: the type of word class, and the type of morphological ending that attaches to a monomorphemic word. It will also emerge from this study how (inflectional and derivational) allomorphy is very much conditioned by phonology, yet not only in terms of the usual …
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Prepositions and prepositional verbs in classical Arabic
… with the establishment of Preposition as a word class, and with that class of Prepositions whose association with the governing word is accounted for in a transformational generative grammar (TGG) either by a lexical redundancy rule or by a transformation, e. g. the prepositions associating …
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An analysis of /r/ variation in Singapore English
… factors (e.g. phonological contexts, word class) and language-external factors (e.g. speech style, ethnicity, speaker sex) in determining variation in both the realisation and distribution of /r/ in SgE. Finer auditory and acoustic distinctions are found in approximant /r/, reflecting …
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Análisis del Input de libros de texto para la enseñanza del inglés en Educación Primaria: Léxico frecuente, léxico emocional, y temas
… of the frequent vocabulary input and emotion words, as well as the identification of the topics, or contents, included in ten Primary Education ELT textbooks (five from 3rd and five from 6th year) as to ascertain whether there are convergences or divergences in the input received by the …
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How Should Context-Dependent Words Be Taught to Beginning Readers?
… for teaching beginners to read context-dependent words. Two types of 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 …