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An Acoustic, Historical, And Developmental Analysis Of Sarikol Tajik Diphthongs
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
Sarikol Tajik has been reported to be an unusual language, containing up to twelve diphthongs and being the only language in the Gorno-Badakhshan family to not contain a short and long vowel distinction among monophthongs. ...
A Grammar Of West Coast Bajau
(Linguistics, 2007-09-17)
This dissertation is a description of the grammar of West Coast (WC) Bajau, a western Austronesian language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia by some 60,000 people. Drawing extensively from elicited data as well as a corpus of ...
An Overview Of Central Dizin Phonology And Morphology
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
Dizin (Dizi) is an Omotic language spoken in Southwest Ethiopia with three main dialects. This thesis focuses on Central Dizin phonology and morphology, but includes some data from Eastern Dizin and Western Dizin.
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Adult ESOL Reading Comprehension And Text-to-speech Software
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
This study involved ten ESOL adults and examines the extent to which text-to-speech (TTS) software facilitates their reading comprehension. The five treatment participants read fifty, 300-word, non-fiction stories and ...
Learner Perceptions Of Small Group And Pair Work In The ESL Classroom: Implications For Conditions In Second Language Acquisition
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
Second language acquisition (SLA) research finds that small group (SG) and pair work (PW) are essential tools in language learning, specifically creating optimal conditions for negotiation of meaning (e.g., Long, 1985; ...
Legitimate Strategies In Writing : Exploring ESOL Learner Perspectives On Attribution
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)
In many academic institutions today, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) writers may incorporate background sources into their writing in ways unrecognized by their academic institutions, which could lead to these ...
Argument realization of Chinese result and phase complements
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
This paper discusses result complements and phase complements in Chinese, both of which are postverbal elements. Despite their surface similarity, they are different with respect to argument realization. While the result ...
Overseas Language Learning Experience: Student Beliefs About Their Teachers' Qualifications
(Linguistics, 2007-08-23)
This study investigates ESL student beliefs about ESL teachers' overseas experience (OE), language learning experience (LLE), and overseas language learning experience (OLLE), the combination of the two, as well as student ...
F1 and center of gravity interplay in the maintenance of phonological height within a statistical model of a communal grammar: the case of Foodo [ATR] acoustics
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper presents the notion of an idealized or communal grammar as a statistical model of mode, mean or median as emerging from a representative number of a ...
Preliminary tone analysis of possessed nouns in Chicahuaxtla Trique
(Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Chicahuaxtla Trique is one of the Trique languages spoken in Oaxaca, Mexico. Among three Trique languages, Chicahuaxtla Trique has the most complicated tone system ...