[PDF] Top 20 Where is the length effect? A cross-linguistic study.

... Our results contrast with previous findings (Eriksen et al., 1970; Klapp et al., 1973). However, both Eriksen and Klapp's experiments were run in English, whereas our study involves only French materials. Could it ... See full document

... parametric study is carried out to investigate the effect of change in cross-section geometries, beam length, alignment of stiffeners, concrete strength, steel strength and concrete slab ... See full document

... As a matter of fact, a great number of researchers especially in EFL situations, face exhausting challenges and difficulties when it comes to publishing their research articles in international leading journals. Among ... See full document

... that linguistic behavior involves cost- avoiding strategies (Zipf, 1949), we expect that, all else being equal, clauses of larger d will be shorter, to minimize time spent in states with heavy process- ing ... See full document

... Table 5 shows the mean VOT values produced by the British English speakers. English mean VOTs with and without subject A are juxtaposed for comparison. As can be clearly seen, the place of articulation has an ... See full document

... a cross-linguistic data elicitation study on fully realised referring ex- pressions (REs) in a dialogue ...chosen linguistic descrip- tions. The study was conducted in English, ... See full document

... Secondly, what actually makes the results of this study noteworthy is the body of evidence referring to the differences between English and Persian with respect to the emphasis issue. These differences that are ... See full document

... The pattern of results observed in this experiment shows that bilingual French-English subjects do not benefit from listening to sentences in English when they are tested in French or vice-versa. We can thus conclude ... See full document

... of cross- linguistic similarity were less ...this study that includes a picture familiarization phase may help to speed up responses (as well as increase accuracy), leading to more observable ... See full document

... researchers found that some Acehnese children today who are immense fans of the Malay cartoons and use the Malay language in their daily conversations. They mimic the language style performed by their favorite characters ... See full document

... the effect of various parameters on both buckling loads and ultimate behavior of continuous partially composite castellated beams under vertical ...parametric study is carried out to investigate the ... See full document

... present study goes beyond the n-gram approach and investigates if formal length can be predicted from the syntactic dependencies between words, regardless of the order in which the latter ...the ... See full document

... to study the effect of pulsation along with the jet impingement heat transfer with cross ...baffle length increases it swipes away all the flow from nozzles and reduces the region of ... See full document

... residence length and interaction intensity on the performance of non-native speakers of Greek when refusing an ...higher length of residence but restricted opportunities for social contact with native ... See full document

... This study assesses an index for measuring the pronunciation difficulty of sentences (henceforth, pronounceability) based on the normalized edit distance from a refer- ence sentence to a transcription of learn- ... See full document

... standardized effect sizes were either trivial ...these effect sizes suggests that there may be some differences in pain characteristics among the conditions and that some conditions may be more notice- able ... See full document

... first study that explicitly examined the occurrence of zero and overt pronouns in the interlanguage of second language learners was conducted by Gundel and Tarone ...comparative study, clearly indicated ... See full document

... Dixon 1 Introduction 2 Syntactic orientation 3 Free and bound pronouns 4 Parameters of variation for bound pronouns 5 The Wemba-Wemba language Tal 6 The Western Desert language 7 Discuss[r] ... See full document

... 217-19,278-9 genitive classifiers, see possessive classifiers genitive possession schema 30 grammatical relation markers and possessive markers 41-3, 173-5 grammatical relations 6.27.36-[r] ... See full document

... AIKHENVALD is Distinguished Professor and Tropical Leader People and Societies of the Tropics and Director of the Language and Culture Research Centre in the Cairns Institute and School [r] ... See full document