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Phonetic emphasis in Tamil
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The present paper is based on a study conducted following Balasubramanian’s (1981) method: a native speaker was asked to emphasize a given item in a sentence and ...
Anaphora, pragmatics and style in German
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: German uses two sets of anaphoric pronouns, the personal pronoun set (PP) er, sie, es and the demonstrative pronoun set (DP) der, die, das. The latter set has been ...
Primary stress assignment in Brazilian Portuguese
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Brazilians display a great interest in the prosody of their own language. Much classroom time is spent counting syllables, enumerating detailed rules for stress ...
THE IMPACT OF E-MAIL USE ON FOURTH GRADERS' WRITING SKILLS
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-12)
The growing interest in computer use at home and in the workplace has led to the incorporation of computer skills into school curricula. Numerous claims assert the benefit of computers, but questions remain concerning the ...
THE CODE MODEL OF COMMUNICATION: A POWERFUL METAPHOR IN LINGUISTIC METATHEORY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)
The concept of communication is a fundamental notion in the metatheory of linguistics. This study explores the historical development and influence of a particular model of communication, labeled the ‘code model’. This ...
A SOCIOLINGUISTIC SURVEY OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION AMONG THE SHIPIBO OF AMAZONIAN PERU
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1998-05)
In the 1950s, the trend worldwide in public education was for classes to be conducted in the national (prestige) language. In Amazonian Peru however, an alternative was being considered: Bilingual Education (BE). Since ...
A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF THE RHETORICAL STRUCTURE EMPLOYED IN ENGLISH TEXTS BY NATIVE SPEAKERS OF ENGLISH AND NATIVE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)
It has often been observed that students of English as a second language not only speak with a foreign accent but write with a distinctively foreign accent as well. Two apparently conflicting theories have been proposed ...
NON-NATIVE SPEAKER COLLOCATIONS: A CORPUS-DRIVEN CHARACTERIZATION FROM THE WRITING OF NATIVE SPEAKERS OF MANDARIN
(University of Texas Arlington, 1997-12)
Non-native speaker difficulty in producing collocations (i.e., domain-specific recurrent word combinations) is widely acknowledged (see, e.g., Bahns 19 9, Channel 1981, Farghal and Obiedat 1995, Gitsaki 1996, and Zughoul ...
FACILITATIVE OR FAVORABLE CONDITIONS FOR ADULT LEARNERS TO ACQUIRE ORAL PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1999-12)
Social interaction in the language classroom has been said to contribute to the acquisition of oral proficiency in a target language by presumably facilitating comprehension and learner production through negotiation of ...
INTERRELATIONS OF PROSODY, CLAUSE STRUCTURE AND DISCOURSE PRAGMATICS IN TARIFIT BERBER
(University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-08)
The interconnections that exist among prosody, clause structure, and discourse pragmatics have been noted by many linguists (e.g., Halliday 1967; Givon 1983; Longacre 1983). These interconnections have included such phenomena ...