Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language
Wenying Jiang - Acquisition of Word Order in Chinese as a Foreign Language In this book, linguistic achievements of word order studies in Chinese have been applied to Chinese second language acquisition research. By analyzing a great number of word order errors made by learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), this book has developed a method for describing and explaining Chinese word order errors.
Studies in Armenian EtymologyThis dissertation aims at an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of the new data. Being an etymological
investigation with specific purposes rather than an etymological dictionary per se, it focuses on new material and ideas and, consequently, only contains relevant topics and lexical entries. As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for over a hundred years.
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings.
This text presents an accessible and concise overview of the most current theories and approaches of second language learning. It provides an up-to-date introduction to the key concepts and issues, as well as a brief history of this area of research. Written for students coming to the study of linguistics for the first time, the book covers a wide range of approaches, including linguistic, cognitive, and social.
A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly. Tongue-twisters may rely on similar but distinct phonemes (e.g., s [s] and sh [?]), unfamiliar constructs in loanwords, or other features of a language.
