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1. 16. Phonetic Imitation, Accent, and the Learner

   Författare :Duncan Markham; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sociolinguistics; talent; language acquisition; phonetics; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This work is concerned with the acquisition of the phonetic characteristics of languages and dialects, and with the issue of learner talent or individual achievement in learning second languages. Following a survey of the literature on language learning limits, it is argued that the concentration on group trends in most of the existing literature, whilst convenient, serves more to obscure the reasons for the difficulties experienced by most non-child language learners than to explain them. LÄS MER

3. 17. The Acquisition of Russian in a Language Contact Situation : A Case Study of a Bilingual Child in Sweden

   Författare :Natalia Ringblom; Milan Bily; Stella Ceytlin; Maria Voeikova; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language acquisition; childhood bilingualism; bilingual first language acquisition; language contact; language separation; input; dominance; mother tongue; Russian; Swedish; weaker language; Sweden; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This case study investigates the acquisition of Russian in a language contact situation. It examines a simultaneous Swedish-Russian bilingual child born and raised in Sweden. Qualitative analysis is provided from age 1;4 to 8;5 focusing especially on the earliest stages (before the end of the critical period at 4;5). LÄS MER

4. 18. "Say It Fast, Fluent and Flawless" : formulaicity in the oral language production of young foreign language learners

   Författare :Parvin Gheitasi; Janet Enever; Christian Waldmann; Ingmarie Mellenius; Shelagh Rixon; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Early language learning; Foreign language learning; Formulaic language; Formulaicity; English as a foreign language; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis reports on a study, which investigated the process of early foreign language learning in a classroom context and the functions of multi-word units of language known as formulaic sequences in the oral language production of young foreign language learners. A classroom with 11 students in the age range 9 to 11 years was observed and video recorded for 16 sessions (90 minutes per session). LÄS MER

5. 19. Evaluation of nasal speech : a study of assessments by speech-language pathologists, untrained listeners and nasometry

   Författare :Karin Brunnegård; Jan van Doorn; Anette Lohmander; Fiona Gibbon; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; hypernasality; auditory perceptual evaluation; reliability; nasometer; nasalance; Logopedics and phoniatrics; Logopedi och foniatrik;

   Sammanfattning : Excessive nasal resonance in speech (hypernasality) is a disorder which may have negative communicative and social consequences for the speaker. Excessive nasal resonance is often associated with cleft lip and palate, velopharyngeal impairment, dysarthria or hearing impairment. LÄS MER

7. 20. El uso de combinaciones de palabras con que en un corpus de aprendices suecos de español como lengua extranjera

   Författare :Aymé Pino Rodríguez; Jönköping University; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Corpus linguistics; Contrastive analysis; Learners corpus; Spanish as a Foreign Language; Word combinations; Idiom principle; Collocations; Interlanguage; Lingüística de corpus; Análisis contrastivo; Corpus de aprendices; Español como lengua extranjera; Combinaciones de palabras; Principio idiomático; Colocaciones; Interlengua; Corpus linguistics; Contrastive analysis; Learners corpus; Spanish as a Foreign Language; Word combinations; Idiom principle; Collocations; Interlanguage.;

   Sammanfattning : Previous research in phraseological studies has approached the difficulties that learners of foreign and second languages have to produce word combinations derived from idiomatic- or phraseological principles. Using the theoretical framework of Sinclair’s idiom principle and applying a corpus-based methodological approach to contrastive linguistics and the study of interlanguage, I have analyzed the use of Spanish word sequences by Swedish learners. LÄS MER