The Momu language and its speakers
A grammar of Momu, a language of Papua New Guinea
... Thanks to friends and colleagues for hallway conversations, good times, constructive critique, support and the occasional beer: Aung Si, Mark Bur- rows, Matt Carroll, Kwang-Ju Cho, Fanny Cottet, Sarah Cutfield, Greg ...
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Language dominance in bilingual speakers of Italian and Croatian language
... for language dominance in both research and language ...to language dominance. In the language assessment of bilingual children, determining language dominance should be a ...child’s ...
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Language and identity of Dutch speakers in Brussels
... Also, language is considered to be more of a means of communication and less a part of the informant’s ...to language was “You kind of become a different person when you speak another ...
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An analysis of requests produced by second language speakers of English and how these requests are received by English first language speakers
... 2.7 Conclusion In order to be able to answer the research questions posed in chapter 1, it was necessary to indicate the importance of pragmatic competence and its relation to communicative competence. Using ...
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Teaching symbolic language to non-native speakers
... Tests with linked audio files were designed to check the real oral comprehension of formulas read in English. They were implemented in the digital campus of our university, based on Moodle. A surprising result was the ...
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Variation Phonology Of Indonesian Language In Minangkabau Speakers
... Minangkabau language and the Indonesian language, there is a difference when the Minangkabau language students speak some vocabulary in ...Minangkabau language users speak vowels in ...
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Colours in Everyday Metaphoric Language of Persian Speakers
... in language and integrated in different aspects of human life, involving thought, language and action (Lakoff & Johnson, ...strengthen language influence and have a significant role in convention ...
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Language Shift & Language Maintenance Among Farsi Speakers in Portland, Oregon
... University. Language ideology was the primary focus of the interviews, where language and cultural values were discussed explicitly and in ...about language was felt to be best obtained in ...
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The Interesting Teaching and Learning of Malay Language to Foreign Speakers: Language through Cultures
... The language and culture course that is offered by the Languages, Literacies and Translation Center (PPBLT) of University of Sains Malaysia (USM) to overseas students is to meet the demand of the participating ...
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Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL
... fluent speakers, but we have yet to discover the psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic determinants of this sensitivity, and to compare these effects in second language learners and native ...formulaic ...
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PROFILING GREEK HERITAGE LANGUAGE SPEAKERS IN THE USA AND RUSSIA
... heritage speakers’ self-assessment correlates very well with independent measures of proficiency (Montrul et ...The language skills recorded in our study follow the order of an L1 acquisition process of a ...
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Language abilities of 18-month-old Zulu speakers
... The writer, a speech, language and hearing therapist, was given the opportunity, to enter the field of epidemiology and prevention by participating in a cohort study entitled Birth t[r] ...
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Platforms for Non speakers Annotating Names in Any Language
... native speakers and Silver Standard by non- speakers through our annotation platforms, test- ing on 1,952 sentences with ground truth anno- tated by LDC native ...
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First-language Cherokee Speakers' Perceptions of School Experiences
... comfortable in her elementary school. The shift to a public school in her middle school years was somewhat overwhelming for her. Unlike Gil, she did not seek out those who were unlike her and her family. She identified ...
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Language support for L2 speakers of Dutch: effects and motivations
... 1.5 Language Support Workshops for Students with an L2 Background Prospective students at a Belgian Dutch-speaking university 3 have to take a language test proving that they have at least a B2 ...
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Conversations with Native Speakers: Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language
... native speakers of a language—in much CA literature, English or other European languages—self-repair has been found to occur much more frequently than other-initiated repair (Schegloff et ...as ...
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Language biographies and language repertoires : changes in language identity of indigenous African language speakers in a town in the Northern Cape
... with language loss to be a recurrent theme in her research on language ...of language practices that it helps to reveal” ...spoken language; Verschik (2002: 43) argues that “it is not clear ...
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The strength of a weaker first language: Language production and comprehension by Turkish heritage speakers in the Netherlands
... 3 speakers that we know of is Queen (2012), who examined the Turkish and German intonation of heritage speakers of Turkish in ...had its origin in Turkish, and expressed narrative ...heritage ...
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Lexical teddy bears and the processability of learner language by native speakers
... Design A between-groups design was used. Two lists were created, each comprising 38 experimental items, with the conditions counter-balanced so that each list contained either the weak or strong version of each item. ...
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The teaching of literacy to English second language speakers in the foundation phase.
... SECTION 1 ORIENTATION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Each centre of learning is expected to prepare its learners effectively for the future to compete globally. The speed, at which knowledge is disseminated, with no hesitation, ...
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