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Makino, Seiichi – Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 1974
Revised version of a paper read at the Annual Conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, June 14, 1973, Vancouver, Canada. (DD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distinctive Features (Language), English, Japanese
Download full textPasanen, Maija-Liisa – 1978
Finnish visual verbs and the corresponding terms in English are examined to reveal similarities and dissimilarities in the two semantic fields on the basis of translation equivalence. The contrastive analysis describes how the vocabularies of two genetically unrelated languages interpret the visual activity of seeing and looking, and what kind of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Componential Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedKelm, Orlando R. – Hispania, 1987
Comparison of how English and Spanish speakers express contrastive emphasis revealed that, while English speakers used pitch and intensity, Spanish speakers used changes in syntax and lexicon as well as pitch and intensity in showing contrasts. (CB)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
