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Direct linkBelikova, Alyona; White, Lydia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article examines how changes in linguistic theory affect the debate between the fundamental difference hypothesis and the access-to-Universal Grammar (UG) approach to SLA. With a focus on subjacency (Chomsky, 1973), a principle of UG that places constraints on "wh"-movement and that has frequently been taken as a test case for verifying…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar
Bloom, Lois – 1991
A group of studies on child language development between ages 2 and 3 is presented. The studies, originally published between 1970 and 1989, are the result of a longitudinal research program. An introductory section describes the contents, offers background information on several different perspectives (developmental, learnability, cross-cultural)…
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Imitation, Language Acquisition
Download full textO Baoill, Donall P., Ed. – 1985
Six papers on Irish English are presented. "The Study of Hiberno-English" (Jeffrey L. Kallen) surveys some aspects of research on the language and offers a historical context for the subsequent papers. "A Tape-Recorded Survey of Hiberno-English in Its Context" (T. M. Tilling) reports on the early stages of an island-wide survey…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Kachru, Braj B. – 1976
The notion of language dependency presupposes that there is a hierarchy of languages in a multilingual society, and that each language is assigned a functional role in a multilingual individual's restricted or extended spheres of linguistic interaction. In South Asia, language dependency has resulted in linguistic convergence of two types: (1)…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Hindi, Indo European Languages
Dooley, Robert A., Ed.; Marshall, David F., Ed. – 1992
Four working papers from the 1992 Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota session, are presented. The first, "English Borrowing in Thai as Reflected in Thai Journalistic Texts," by James Kapper, looks at patterns of the influence of the English language on Thai. It is concluded that English has permeated Thai culture…
Descriptors: Bantu Languages, English, Foreign Countries, Grammar
Harris, John, Ed.; And Others – 1986
This collection of symposium papers on varieties of the English language used in Ireland includes: "The Role of Irish English in the Formation of Colonial Englishes," by P. Trudgill; "Anglo-Irish Verse in Translation from Irish," by P. L. Henry; "The Methodology of Urban Language Studies," by J. Milroy;…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English
