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A perception study on the third tone in Mandarin Chinese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This experimental study examines the role of the shape of the pitch contour in the perception of the Mandarin Chinese tone 3.2 A set of stimuli was constructed by ...
Inquiries into Korean Linguistics V: Selected Works from the Eighteenth International Conference and the 2012 Xuzhou Conference on Linguistic Sciences
(MavOpenPress, 2012-07)
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Language and the shaping of the Arab-American identity
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This study is an attempt to shed light on the interaction between language and the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of Arab-Americans. It employs two ...
Subjectless sentences in English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: One of the goals of modern linguistics is to develop a model of Universal Grammar which captures natural language features that are universal, while also accounting ...
LEARNING EFFICIENCIES FOR DIFFERENT ORTHOGRAPHIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HAN CHARACTERS AND VIETNAMESE ROMANIZATION
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2003-05)
In order to address the question of whether or not to abandon Han characters (Hanji), it is important to evaluate empirically the efficiency of Han writing. The purpose of this study is to compare the efficiency of learning ...
ATTITUDES OF NATIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PROFESSORS TOWARD UNIVERSITY ESL STUDENTS
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2000-08)
This study focuses on native English-speaking business professors to explore issues of stereotyping and error gravity in terms of university ESL (English as a Second Language) students. Specifically, this dissertation has ...
'Field linguistics' takes researchers to all parts of the globe
(The University of Texas at Arlington, Fall 2005)
Developing cross language metrics for reading fluency measurement: Some issues and options
(World Bank, 2012)
Since 2005, over 70 oral reading fluency tests have been given in many languages and scripts, either as part of the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) or as individual one-minute tests. Particularly in multilingual ...
Corpora for University Language Teachers
(Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, 2009-09)