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Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Near-synonyms in English often cause considerable confusion among EFL students. This study aims to clarify this confusion through a corpus-based investigation of the target synonymous verbs "persist" and "persevere" with focus on distribution across genres, collocations, and semantic preference/prosody. The results, based on…
Descriptors: Semantics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure
Widal, Pierre – Meta, 1973
Neologism is a term for any word introduced into a language regardless of the method of its creation. (DD)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Styles