Introduces two Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) Web Utilities: NJStar Asian Explorer and Asian Communicator. (Author/VWL)

Investigates the general intonation patterns of Korean speakers when they speak English declarative sentences. Findings show the pitch accent often falls on the last syllable of the phonological word in focus, and that Korean subjects exhibit a distinct tonal pattern for phrases similar to the low-high-low-high tone sequence of Korean accentual…

Presents evidence from the grammaticality intuitions of native speakers and English-speaking second language (L2) learners of Hungarian about optional and categorical constructions. Argues that while observed, stable native optionality is highly restricted and difficult to capture. (Author/VWL)

Discusses efforts at language revival and maintenance of American Indian languages. Describes models used in New Zealand to maintain the Maori language and in Hawaii to preserve the Hawaiian language. Suggests that language and cultural revival efforts are generally healthy for America. (Author/VWL)

Offers a survey of recent codification efforts of the Romani language, a stateless, non-territorial language with no written tradition. In a pragmatic corpus analysis, three action-oriented functions of Romani codification are identified: a communicative function, on emblematic function, and a mobilizing-rallying function. (Author/VWL)

Examined how a bilingual child might come to an understanding of the existence of two languages in terms of pragmatic differentiation and lexical differentiation. Using data from a Portuguese-English bilingual child, showed that the child exhibited evidence of pragmatic differentiation before lexical differentiation. (Author/VWL)

Examines two phenomena of language alternation in biographic narrations in Yiddish and Low German, based on spoken language data recorded between 1988-1995. The first is a narrative strategy referred to as token codeswitching; the second has to do with directing procedures, carried out by the speaker and aimed at guiding and supporting the…

Examines the production of wh-questions in the speech of four monolingual child speakers of Catalan who were recorded longitudinally as part of an earlier study, obtained from the CHILDES database. Proposes that the early absence of wh-questions is a consequence of the early underspecification of tense. (Author/VWL)

Describes the complex context of language choice in schools in Cree communities on the east coast of James bay in Quebec before Cree was used as the language of instruction. Four important threads of concern were identified: locus of control, economies of scale, community visions of language and education, and the role of literacies. (Author/VWL)

Discusses to what extent the broadcast media in the Breton language has acted as a vital link to language maintenance in Brittany. Highlights the background context of the Breton language, reasons for its decline, and what the broadcast media can do to help reverse language shift. (Author/VWL)

Examines whether a broadcast media can effect some degree of language shift in areas where the a language is the target language of revitalization efforts or can consolidate language maintenance in areas where the broadcast language is the language of the speech community. (Author/VWL)

Gives a brief overview of Irish language radio in Ireland and points out a few difficulties with a roundtable discussion on Irish carried out by scholars in the field of minority language broadcasting. (Author/VWL)

Claims that Chimila includes both canonically long monosyllabic vowels within it phonological system. Discusses this claim on the basis of a combination of evidence, including contrasts in identical or near-identical environments, phonetic length differences, the interaction of stress and pitch patterns, vowel shortening processes, distributional…

Analyzes the mythology and imagery underpinning global English, the many labels used to describe English, and the transition from an imperialist language into one that meshes with ongoing processes of Europeanization and Americanization, largely through the influence of transnational corporations. Implications are drawn for Danish, in Denmark, a…

The Malay language has a transparent morphological system and, unlike English, it is written in a very shallow alphabetic-syllabic script. We predicted that beginner spellers (six-to eight-year-olds) of this Rumi script would encode words at the level of the syllable and morpheme, rather than the phoneme. Using the results of a 75-item spelling…