The Contribution Of Lexical Diversity To College‐Level Writing, Melanie C. González
Oct 2017
The Contribution Of Lexical Diversity To College‐Level Writing, Melanie C. González
Melanie González
This article reports on a study that investigated the extent to which lexical frequency and lexical diversity contribute to writing proficiency scores on monolingual English‐speaking writers’ and advanced multilingual writers’ academic compositions. The data consist of essays composed by 104 multilingual English learners enrolled in advanced second language writing courses at various intensive English programs and 68 monolingual English‐speaking university students in a first‐year composition course. Three independent raters evaluated the essays according to the TOEFL iBT independent writing rubric. Results from a binary logistic regression reveal that lexical diversity has a significantly greater impact on writing score than lexical …
Logical Form And The Vernacular Revisited, Andrew Botterell, Robert J. Stainton
Aug 2017
Logical Form And The Vernacular Revisited, Andrew Botterell, Robert J. Stainton
Robert J. Stainton
We revisit a debate initiated some fifteen years ago by Ray Elugardo and Robert Stainton about the domain of arguments. Our main result is that arguments are not exclusively sets of linguistic expressions. Instead, as we put it, some non-linguistic items have ‘logical form’. The crucial examples are arguments, both deductive and inductive, made with unembedded words and phrases.
Cognitive Processing Of Time In Language By Non-Native Readers: Can Explicit Teaching Promote Interlanguage Development?, Andreas Schramm, Verena Haser, Michael Mensink, Jonas Reifenrath
Jul 2017
Cognitive Processing Of Time In Language By Non-Native Readers: Can Explicit Teaching Promote Interlanguage Development?, Andreas Schramm, Verena Haser, Michael Mensink, Jonas Reifenrath
Andreas Schramm
Every English sentence requires a verb containing information about time. This in turn makes the temporal meanings that verbs carry crucial. The current study is part of a larger research interest into the nature of cognitive processing of time in language by native and non-native readers of English (Becker, Ferretti, & Madden_Lombardi, 2013; Schramm & Mensink, in press). It explores the acquisition of temporal meanings by adult non-native speakers of English. It specifically addresses the natural progression in learners’ development of the comprehension of time concepts (not only of their production) and whether instruction can change the rate of this …
Welcome To Ilead: An Introduction To Intercultural Communication For Intensive English Program Students, Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Jul 2017
Welcome To Ilead: An Introduction To Intercultural Communication For Intensive English Program Students, Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Presentation introduces participants to the rationale, curriculum, and outcomes of the iLEAD intercultural communication program.
Adverbial Clauses And Speaker And Interlocutor Gender In Shakespeare’S Plays, Theresa M. Mcgarry, Kelsey Kiser
Jun 2017
Adverbial Clauses And Speaker And Interlocutor Gender In Shakespeare’S Plays, Theresa M. Mcgarry, Kelsey Kiser
Theresa M McGarry
This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional and purpose clauses than the men, while the men used more concessive clauses. Mondorf’s explanation for this difference is that women use the three clause types that mitigate the speaker’s commitment to the truth of the proposition, …
Socio-Cultural Models Of Second Language Learning In Immigrants In Canada., Fanli Jia, Alexandra Gottardo, Aline Ferreira
Feb 2017
Socio-Cultural Models Of Second Language Learning In Immigrants In Canada., Fanli Jia, Alexandra Gottardo, Aline Ferreira
Fanli Jia
The most significant challenge for the minority immigrant is learning a new language.
They arrive in a new culture and community hoping to master English quickly in order
to achieve their academic and career goals. However, many immigrants have mentioned
general barriers resulting from being unable to communicate with peers outside their cul
-tural and linguistic group. Recent research has identified several cognitive variables such
as vocabulary, reading aloud, and grammatical judgment related to second-language
learning in immigrants; however, little attention was given to sociocultural factors such
as acculturation, motivation, and cultural learning because learning a language is a nec …
Review Of _Harmonic Grammar And Harmonic Serialism_, Eric Baković
Dec 2016
Review Of _Harmonic Grammar And Harmonic Serialism_, Eric Baković
Eric Baković
Harmonic Grammar and Harmonic Serialism (henceforth HGHS) consists of thirteen chapters addressing matters of empirical, theoretical, and typological concern to Harmonic Grammar (HG) and Harmonic Serialism (HS). As the editors note in their preface, HG and HS are "in some ways relatives of OT [Optimality Theory] in that they incorporate much of its structure (e.g. candidate comparison by markedness and faithfulness constraints)," except that "HS questions the choice of parallel over serial evaluations, while HG questions the assumption that constraints are ranked rather than weighted." Anyone interested in an introduction to and further developments within either HG or HS, …
Bucld2017_Proceedings_Brooks Et Al. (1).Pdf, Patricia Brooks, Josita Maouene, Kevin Sailor, Liat Seiger-Gardner
Dec 2016
Bucld2017_Proceedings_Brooks Et Al. (1).Pdf, Patricia Brooks, Josita Maouene, Kevin Sailor, Liat Seiger-Gardner
Dr. Josita C Maouene
Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) exhibit weak semantic-priming effects in spoken-word production/recognition relative to children with typical language development (TLD). We explored whether underutilization of semantic cues in lexical access might stem from variation in the structure of children’s semantic networks. Children with SLI and age-matched TLD controls (N=20 per group; ages 7;10–10;8) performed a repeated word-association task, producing the first word that came to mind in response to 24 cue-words over 4 list repetitions. Children with SLI produced more weakly related responses to the cue-words than TLD controls, and greater numbers of perseverative responses. Network models explored possible …
Aspect Comprehension And Processing In Narratives By Native Spanish Speakers, Hannah Riddle Rojas
Dec 2016
Aspect Comprehension And Processing In Narratives By Native Spanish Speakers, Hannah Riddle Rojas
Andreas Schramm
Draft copy
Teaching Intervention Sabbatical Freiburg University, Andreas Schramm, Cadi Kivimagi Kiel, Jennifer Ouellette-Schramm
Dec 2016
Teaching Intervention Sabbatical Freiburg University, Andreas Schramm, Cadi Kivimagi Kiel, Jennifer Ouellette-Schramm
Andreas Schramm
This is the teaching intervention used with German English-teacher candidates during my sabbatical research at Freiburg University 2016-17
Stories (Causal Inferencing & Truth Value Judgment Tasks) Combined, Andreas Schramm
Dec 2016
Stories (Causal Inferencing & Truth Value Judgment Tasks) Combined, Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm
This file contains the materials used in the word completion studies as well as in the Truth Value Judgment Task study
It Is Time To Tackle Aspect! Some Insights To Help Clear Up The Tense/Aspect Mystery, Andreas Schramm
Dec 2016
It Is Time To Tackle Aspect! Some Insights To Help Clear Up The Tense/Aspect Mystery, Andreas Schramm
Andreas Schramm
In this article, Dr. Andreas Schramm draws on the research of his graduate students, colleagues,
and from his own recent sabbatical to describe what makes the tense-aspect system in English
notoriously challenging to teach and learn, and to show that it can nonetheless be explicitly
taught. Drawing from his experience as an English learner and one-time English teacher in
training, he shares anecdotes and practical tips to help English as a Second and Foreign
Language teachers unpack the meaning of tense and aspect for their learners.
Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone
Dec 2016
Unpacking A Political Icon: ‘Bike Lanes’ And Orders Of Indexicality, Michael Miller Yoder, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
Indexicality, the ability of language to evoke the context in which it usually occurs, is a concept
commonly drawn upon in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. This article applies the
framework of orders of indexicality to political discourse about a controversial topic in Pittsburgh,
United States, the construction of bike lanes. A concordance analysis of the term bike lanes in
news media, blogs and online news comments demonstrates variation in indexical meanings of
bike lanes between those who oppose and those who support them.We argue that the
orders of indexicality approach help explain how groups with different interests can reinforce or …
Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone
Dec 2016
Enregistering Dialect, Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone
No abstract provided.
Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell
Dec 2016
Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell
Catherine Baird
Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …
Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell
Dec 2016
Exploring Authority In Linguistics Research: Who To Trust When Everyone’S A Language Expert, Catherine Baird, Jonathan Howell
Jonathan Howell
Many instruction librarians use the CRAAP test or a similar pneumonic tool as a regular activity in information literacy instruction classes. This involves having the students in the class select one or more sources and instructing them to answer a series of questions about these sources, as prompted by a simple checklist. Is the selected source Current, Relevant, Authoritative, Accurate and What is its Purpose? The goal is to help the students ascertain whether or not they should select this source and use it for an assignment. On occasion, a student will raise a hand and ask a simple question: …
Acoustic Classification Of Focus: On The Web And In The Lab, Jonathan Howell, Mats Rooth, Michael Wagner
Dec 2016
Acoustic Classification Of Focus: On The Web And In The Lab, Jonathan Howell, Mats Rooth, Michael Wagner
Jonathan Howell
We present a new methodological approach which combines both naturally-occurring speech harvested on the web and speech data elicited in the laboratory. This proof-of-concept study examines the phenomenon of focus sensitivity in English, in which the interpretation of particular grammatical constructions (e.g., the comparative) is sensitive to the location of prosodic prominence. Machine learning algorithms (support vector machines and linear discriminant analysis) and human perception experiments are used to cross-validate the web-harvested and lab-elicited speech. Results con rm the theoretical predictions for location of prominence in comparative clauses and the advantages using both web-harvested and lab-elicited speech. The most robust …
Reduced Structure In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul
Dec 2016
Reduced Structure In Malagasy Headlines, Ileana Paul
Ileana Paul
This paper examines the register associated with headlines in Malagasy. While in many
languages headlines appear to have reduced structure as evidenced by the absence of certain
grammatical markers (determiners, copulas, tense), Malagasy headlines show a change in word
order from VOS to SVO. It is argued that like English, Malagasy headlines involve a truncated
syntactic structure and that the absence of certain functional projections accounts for the change
in word order.
Culminating And Non-Culminating Accomplishments In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Henriëtte De Swart
Dec 2016
Culminating And Non-Culminating Accomplishments In Malagasy, Ileana Paul, Baholisoa Simone Ralalaoherivony, Henriëtte De Swart
Ileana Paul
Malagasy is a language with non-culminating accomplishments. There is, however, a specific prefix (maha-), which appears to entail culmination. Moreover, verbs prefixed with maha- display a range of interpretations: causative, abilitive, ‘manage to’, and unintentionality. This paper accounts for these two aspects of this prefix with a unified semantic analysis. In particular, maha- encodes double prevention, as proposed by Wolff (2007, 2014) for English predicates like enable. The double prevention configuration is associated with a circumstantial modal base, which leads to culminating readings in the past and future. As such, this paper supports a more fine-grained theory …
Unregulated Autonomy: Uncredentialed Educational Interpreters In Rural Schools, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Dec 2016
Unregulated Autonomy: Uncredentialed Educational Interpreters In Rural Schools, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Stephen Fitzmaurice
LTHOUGH MANY rural Deaf and Hard of Hearing students attend public
schools most of the day and use the services of educational interpreters
to gain access to the school environment, little information exists
on what interpreters are doing in rural school systems in the absence
of credentialing requirements. The researcher used ethnographic interviews
and field observations of three educational interpreters with no
certification or professional assessment to explore how uncredentialed
interpreters were enacting their role in a rural high school. The findings
indicate that uncredentialed interpreters in rural settings perform four
major functions during their school day: preparing the environment, …
