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Effects of Task Complexity on Written Performance of Low and Intermediate Proficiency Learners
(2018-04-05)This paper explores task complexity effects on the written performance of L2 learners. Claims of Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis and Skehan’s Trade-Off Hypothesis are compared. Performance is operationalized through accuracy, ... -
Code-Switching and Lexical Borrowing among Brazilian Portuguese and English Bilinguals in Chicagoland
(2017-06-28)Portuguese is among the eleven foreign languages most widely spoken in the U.S. (Census, 2010). Yet, very few studies have explored code-switching and lexical borrowing (two common contact-induced phenomena in bilingual ... -
Terreur et théologie: Paulhan, Scarry, Novarina
(Armand Colin/LAROUSSE, 2014-12)Valere Novarina occupies an unusual position with respect to Jean Paulhan and his concept of literary "terror". On the one hand, the aim of his poetics is innovative and iconoclastic; on the other, he venerates a rhetorical ... -
External information processing versus property ascertaining: a discourse-pragmatic study of three yes/no question particles in Shishan (Hainan Island, China)
(Walter de Gruyter, 2012-06)Drawing on naturally occurring conversation, the present study examines three utterance-final yes/no question particles, mi, o, and ang, in Shishan, a dialect of Lingao of the Tai-Kadai language family, spoken on northern ... -
Growing up and apart: Gender divergences in a Chicagoland elementary school
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)A characteristic of children’s social orders is gender segregation. When children can choose, girls play more with girls and boys with boys. This begins around age three and peaks in later childhood. If children separate ... -
Constraint Reality: Linguistic Expressions of Restrictivity and Emotive Stances. A Discourse-Pragmatic Study of Utterance-Final Lāh in Shishan (Hainan Island, China)
(Elsevier, 2011-06)Based on natural conversational data, the current study analyzes utterance-final pragmatic particle lāh in Shishan, a dialect of Lingao of the Tai-Kadai language family. The research proposes that lāh signals an interactively ...
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