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    • Predicting near-native pronunciation in Spanish as a foreign language 

      Elliott, A. Raymond (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 

      Paolillo, John C. (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 

      Silva, David J. (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 

      Huttar, George L. (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 

      Vinton, Virginia C. (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 

      Cahill, Mike (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 

      Walters, Dennis (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 

      Reiman, Patricia Willess (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 

      Vinton, James E. (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 

      DeLisle, Helga H. (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 

      Walters, Susan Gary (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 ...
    • Argument realization of Chinese result and phase complements 

      Huang, Han-Chun (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 ...
    • 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 

      Anderson, Colleen G. (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 

      Matsukawa, Kosuke (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 ...
    • A perception study on the third tone in Mandarin Chinese 

      Cao, Rui; Sarmah, Priyankoo (Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This experimental study examines the role of the shape of the pitch contour in the perception of the Mandarin Chinese tone 3.2 A set of stimuli was constructed by ...
    • Language and the shaping of the Arab-American identity 

      Almubayei, Dalal Saleh (Linguistics & TESOL, 2007)
      **Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This study is an attempt to shed light on the interaction between language and the ethnic, cultural, and religious identities of Arab-Americans. It employs two ...
    • Nous and On in Semi-formal French: Pragmatic Uses of Institutionality and Distancing 

      King, Deborah (Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-16)
      French linguists have long noted the substitution of the indefinite pronoun on for the 1st person plural pronoun nous, in both formal and informal situations. Studies of informal conversation have found this replacement ...
    • Speech Act, Evidentiality, and Implicature in the Korean Topic-Construction 

      Son, Jung Sun (Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
      Is it possible to map pragmatic or discourse-oriented features onto the syntax level? The Korean topic marker -(n)un has a contrastive reading that induces conventional implicature, and is closely associated with a modal ...
    • We Shall Be Watching You, You're Going to Die, and Other Threats: A Corpus-Based Speech Act Approach 

      Carter, Natalie Raun (Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
      Using a speech act approach, this paper examines the similarities and differences between English-language threats made by terrorists and those made by non-terrorists, with a focus on pronoun use and sentence-type. Both ...
    • Interactional Entanglements: A Frame Analysis of Negotiated Identities in Ethnographic Research on the Language Classroom 

      Ouellette, Mark A. (Linguistics & TESOL, 2010-11-17)
      This study examines interactional entanglements that occurred during ethnographer-participant interactions in a language classroom. It draws upon Goffman's notion of framing to analyze how research participants use deixis ...