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Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The objective of the present study is to examine the acquisition of pronunciation by 66 undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of an intermediate Spanish ...
Finding the "two" in diglossia
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Sociolinguists generally agree that a diglossic situation is one in which a single speech community employs two or more varieties of language, a H(igh) variety and ...
The variable elision of unstressed vowels in European Portuguese: a case study
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: European varieties of Portuguese exhibit a process whereby unstressed vowels, particularly schwa, optionally undergo elision: an item such as idade ‘idea’ can be ...
Lexical borrowing, creolization and basic vocabulary
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper is concerned with two sets of questions, one from semantics and cognitive linguistics, one from diachronic linguistics and in particular creole studies. ...
The variable (th) in Dallas African American Vernacular English
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: It is well-known that African American Vernacular English (hereafter AAVE) displays regional variation. In the case of the (th) variable, Wolfram (1969) found that ...
Diphthongization and underspecification in Kɔnni
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The problems of analyzing vowels of Gur languages are well-known to those who work among them. The bulk of the difficulty in Kɔnni comes in the analysis of the mid ...
Discourse-based evidence for an ergative analysis of Cebuano
(Linguistics & TESOL, 1994)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The case-marking systems of Philippine languages have been difficult to classify as either nominative-accusative (NOM-ACC) or ergative-absolutive (ERG-ABS). The ...
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 ...
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 ...