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Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics. Volume 5, Number 1.

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Hamel, Patricia, Ed.; Schaefer, Ronald, Ed. – 1980

These papers deal with a variety of topics bearing on modality in a variety of languages and language families. While all languages have ways of expressing modality, that is, such notions as possibility, necessity, and contingency, this phenomenon has been the object of little systematic linguistic analysis. These papers are presented with the…

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, English, Hebrew, Higher Education

Aspects of Lexical Simplification in the Speech and Writing of Advanced Adult Learners. The Notions of Simplification, Interlanguages and Pidgins and Their Relation to Second Language Pedagogy. Actes du 5eme Colloque de Linguistique Appliquee de Neuchatel (Acts of the Fifth Neuchatel Colloquium on Applied Linguistics).

Levenston, E. A.; Blum, S. – 1977

This paper discusses the meaning of the term "lexical simplification" in the context of second language acquisition. It is suggested that simplification be viewed as a universal feature of language use which may be manifested in a number of linguistic contexts, including the creation of a learner's interlanguage. It is further suggested…

Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language), Hebrew, Interlanguage

Child Language; A Book of Readings.

Bar-Adon, Aaron, Ed.; Leopold, Werner F., Ed. – 1971

The present volume is designed to help the student of child language, especially the beginning student, discover the high points of American and international research, such as French, German, Hebrew, Polish, and Russian. The selections in this reader are intended as an introduction to various fields of child language and to different theories and…

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Chinese, English

Strategies of Communication through Lexical Avoidance in the Speech and Writing of Second Language Teachers and Learners and in Translation.

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Blum, Shoshana; Levenston, Eddie – 1977

In a recent paper (1977) Levenston and Blum suggested that lexical simplification operates according to universal principles, and that these derive from the individual's semantic competence in his mother tongue. This paper examines the validity of this suggestion by means of a comparative study of lexical simplification in three different…

Descriptors: Classification, Hebrew, Interlanguage, Language Instruction