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Remarques phonologiques sur les consonnes francaises (Phonological Remarks on French Consonants).
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Bluhme, Hermann – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Describes and classifies French consonants from an articulatory-phonological perspective. (JB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Descriptive Linguistics, French
Time and Tense in English.
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Kaluza, Heryk – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Proposes a model for the description of "tense" in English verbs in the indicative mood. (AM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Models
The System of Tense and Aspect in English
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Nehls, Dietrich – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1975
A structural-functional basis for the construction of an English tense system is proposed. It is asserted that such a system will facilitate the teaching of English tense usage. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Grammar, Language Usage
The Trager-Smith Stress Levels of English: A Reinterpretation
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Fichtner, Edward G. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Revised version of a paper delivered at the Second Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, October 30 - November 1, 1969. (VM)
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Intonation, Language Patterns
Sur quelques particularites suntaxiques de certains substituts en francais (On Some Syntactical Particularities of Certain Substitutes in French)
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Gaatone, David – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
This article draws attention to a number of syntactic peculiarities of the so-called pronominal adverbs "en" and "y" in French, and maintains that these adverbs differ quite markedly in syntactic behavior. (Text is in French.) (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Adverbs, Descriptive Linguistics, French, Grammar
Ubersetzung und Sprachwissenschaft - eine Orientierung (Translation and Linguistics: An Orientation)
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Faiss, Klaus – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Machine Translation
The Problem of Equivalence in Contrastive Analysis
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Bouton, Lawrence F. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1976
Challenges the notion that linguistic units which are equivalent from the point of view of being translated with ease from one language to another have a common deep structure. This notion is not seen as feasible in a transformational generative framework. (CLK)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics
The Genitive Singular with -s and/or -es in Spoken and Written German.
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Pfeffer, J. Alan; Morrison, Scott E. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1979
Presents a reworking of the rules of genitive singular inflection in German nouns, allowing the prediction of the distribution of "s" and "es" in a greater number of nouns than previously possible. (AM)
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Descriptive Linguistics, German, Grammar
The Critical Sounds of German: A Taxonomy
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Wipf, Joseph A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1977
A report on a study to identify the relationship between subjects' age and their ability to imitate critical sounds of German. By having 210 American subjects repeat 20 critical German sounds in a non-critical context, a hierarchy of these sounds was established. Methodological conclusions are indicated. (AMH)
Descriptors: Age, Descriptive Linguistics, Distinctive Features (Language), German
The Psycholinguistic Analysis and Measurement of Interference Errors
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Merio, Katri – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1978
A description of an analysis of 10,000 errors made by Finns and Swedes who were learning Finnish or Swedish as a foreign language. A new classification of errors is established and a precise definition of language mixing is given. Five types of errors are described. (AMH)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Descriptive Linguistics
The Modern Arabic Course--A Challenge.
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Campbell, Stuart J. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1986
Investigates why graduates of Arabic courses in English-speaking countries are so few in number and why they so often compare poorly in spoken language performance with graduates of other language courses. The most important factor in this phenomenom is the gap that separates written Arabic from spoken Arabic. (SED)
Descriptors: Arabic, Communicative Competence (Languages), Descriptive Linguistics, Dialects