The comparison of scores from linguistically different tests is a twofold matter: the adaptation of tests and the comparison of scores. These 2 aspects of measurement invariance intersect at the need to guarantee the psychometric equivalence between the original and adapted versions. In this study, the authors examined comparability in 2 stages.…

This paper analyses how two multicompetent speakers engage with protocolling, i.e. verbalising their thoughts, while writing in two languages different from their first. The study explores how procedure- and language-related episodes of awareness affect both the writing process itself and the written product. The research draws on current issues…

Theories of literacy acquisition, developed mostly with reference to English, have characterised this process as passing through a series of stages. The culmination of this process is a strategy which takes account of the complex relationship between graphemes and phonemes within a deep orthography (Frith (1985). In K. Patterson, & M. Coltheart,…

This article is based on a case study of a white American graduate student, Mark, who achieved "Superior" oral proficiency in Arabic according to the ACTFIi Oral Proficiency Scale. Based on multiple data sources (e.g., interviews, observation, document analysis), the study highlights Mark's multiple identities as a language learner, language…

The clause in Southeastern Tepehuan consists of a predicate, its associated arguments, and other modifying elements. This paper seeks to show the various types of semantic and surface clauses and the relation between them. The semantic clause consists of various semantic components, both nuclear and peripheral, semantic prosodies, and certain…

Focuses on the Arabic verbal system, the prototypical example of templatic morphology, with the aim of deriving some of its distinctly special traits from basic principles. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the syntactic properties of participial adjuncts and the relevant general syntactic principles in Eastern Bengali, specifically those responsible for case-assignment, word order, and binding properties. (40 references) (Author/VWL)

Argues that the contribution of pragmatics to anaphora is much more fundamental than has been commonly believed, at least with respect to languages such as Chinese. A pragmatic theory is presented of anaphora within the neo-Gricean framework of conversational implicature, and an overview is provided of the latest developments of Grice's theory of…

To verify the place of articulation of Korean affricates, this article reconsiders previous phonological accounts of their place of articulation and argues that Korean affricates are neither palato-alveolar nor aveolopalatal, as is usually assumed. (Author/VWL)

The experimental studies presented in this paper exploit agreement attraction in order to examine the mechanisms underlying the production of subject-verb agreement in Slovak. Our experiments verify that the processes which specify the gender feature on past tense verbs are subject to interference from local nouns, and that the likelihood of…

This article, based mainly on specific examples from the author's ethnographic fieldwork, outlines the state of bilingual education in Xinjiang and reviews its development. First, a broad outline is presented of the overall circumstances of bilingual education in China and Xinjiang. Next is an introduction to the present state of bilingual…

In Ratanakiri province, northeastern Cambodia, the majority of the local people are native speakers of ethnic minority languages. Primarily subsistence farmers, they use their own language to communicate with others in their villages, and as they work in their rice fields. A baseline survey taken between 1996 and 1998 in five such villages showed…

This paper addresses the problem of the distribution and interpretation of the Korean long-distance anaphor "caki" and its pronominal counterpart "ku." The first part of the paper reviews previous analyses and shows that the distribution of "caki" and "ku" cannot be fully accounted for in purely structural…

Tutelo is a Siouan language that was once spoken in Virginia and the Carolinas. Before it died out, a few scholars collected enough data on the language to elicit the main features and characteristics of the language. This paper looks at the noun in Tutelo. Specific focus is on the shape of the root, the marking of gender and number, the…

Reexamines syllable contraction in Taiwanese Southern Min. Grounded on Chung's (1996) autosegmental model, analysis is characterized by six points. Modifies the Edge-in model, and accounts for syllable contraction from a sonority perceptive. Explores the issue of violability of phonotactics in syllable contraction. (Author/VWL)