This study examines how bilingual family members use language choice and language alternation as a local scheme of interpretation to distinguish different and often contesting social identities in interaction. It is argued that the playful creation of oppositional identities in interaction relieves the speakers from responsibility and creates a…

From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan to speak Russian. Even with changes since independence Russian use--including various kinds of code-switching and…

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

This annotated bibliography of 29 documents on the Turkman language includes phonologies, morphologies, dictionaries, and bibliographies in English, French, German, Russian, and Turkman, and is intended to increase documentation of scholarly research on the Turkman language. Some citations are for very rare books, and three important Turkman…

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Special issue devoted to study of the whistling language of Kuskoy, Turkey. Study was prompted by study of whistling language in Aas, France. (DS)

Different types of Persian impact on Irano-Turkic language varieties are surveyed and classified according to the Code-Copying model, which implies that copies of elements from foreign codes are inserted, globally or selectively, into a basic code that provides the morphosyntactic frame for the insertion. The study investigates under what…

While reading or speaking, individuals break up sentences into "meaningful chunks." This is true of any individual with any language background. Failure to do so, in an L2 context, leads to idiosyncrasies, and may possibly create some comprehensibility problems. In this study, native and non-native speakers of English read an authentic text into a…

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STANDARD NORM IN THE BASHKIR NATIONAL LANGUAGE BEGAN, ESSENTIALLY, AS LATE AS THE 1930'S AFTER THE FORMATION OF THE BASHKIR A.S.R. BEFORE THIS, THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE DID NOT HAVE A STANDARD LITERARY FORM. PROGRESSIVE BASHKIR EDUCATORS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES FOUGHT FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE…

In this paper we argue that investigation of third language (L3) acquisition by adults and children provides essential new insights about the language learning process that neither the study of first language (L1) nor second language (L2) acquisition alone can provide. The focus of this paper concerns the role the learner's L1 plays in succeeding…

This study aimed at comparing the performance of two bilingual groups of EFL students with that of a monolingual group on a controlled productive ability vocabulary test. Altogether 30 Turkish-Persian bilinguals, 30 Armenian-Persian bilinguals, and 30 Persian monolinguals participated in the study. The subjects in all three groups were homogeneous…

A description of the various ethnic groups who comprise each of the four major language families represented in China--the Sino Tibetan, Altaic, Indo-European and the Austroasiatic. (EH)