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• Checking recognition: do you remember and do you know in talk-in-interaction 

  You, Hie-Jung (2015-01-21)

  This dissertation examines how speakers check recognition of knowledge and memory they presume to be shared by their co-participants. In this conversation analytic study, I analyze recognition checks with (do you) remember ...

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• Structural transfer in third language acquisition: the case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English 

  Kabasele, Philothe (2015-01-21)

  This paper tests the claims of Cumulative Enhancement Model, the ‘L2 status factor’, and the Typological Primacy Model in investigating how L1 Lingala, L2 French speakers express in English an event which took place and ...

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• A Study of &Quot;ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae" (1632) by Diego Collado and Its Sources 

  Takizawa, Naohiro (1993)

  This dissertation is a study of the second oldest Japanese grammar, Ars Grammaticae Iaponicae Linguae (the Ars). The Ars was written by Diego Collado, a Spanish Dominican father, in the framework of a Latin traditional ...

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• The Sensitive Period Hypothesis in L2 Production: /I/ Versus /I/ and Voicing-Dependent Vowel Duration in the English Speech Produced by Korean Speakers of English 

  Kim, Ryonhee (1994)

  This study tested the sensitive period hypothesis in relation to L2 production. Thirty Korean speakers of English who came to the United States at varying ages participated in two experiments. When they came to the U.S., ...

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• Speech Intelligibility and Bilingualism: The Effects of Age of Acquisition 

  Bott, Sandra Merz (1993)

  One of the central questions of second language acquisition research has been what affect age of acquisition has on the language learner's eventual proficiency in a second language. Researchers have tried to determine ...

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