Focalization and Word Order in Old Italo-Romance

Testing Cladistics on Dialect Networks and Phyla (Gallo-Romance Vowels, Southern Italo-Romance Diasystems and Mayan Languages)

This present work deliberately abandons the purpose of capturing the global resemblance between languages and the ambition of giving a rational foundation to probability of changes in linguistics, to focus instead on cladistic approach, which was applied to different dialects and data (gallo-romance, southern italo-romance) through an original coding of philological derivations. Results show go...

Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children

Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods: In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio...

Word Order Variation in the VP in Old Icelandic

The purpose of this paper is to describe and account for the word order variation found in the VP in Old Icelandic. It is shown that even though the IP in Old Icelandic was clearly head-initial, with movement of the finite verb to I accounting for the obligatory verb-second word order, the headedness of the VP is far from obvious. The majority of the logically possible word order patterns actua...

Phonological typology , rhythm types and the phonetics - phonology interface . A methodological overview and three case studies on Italo - Romance dialects

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...