This study adopts two assumptions about abstract lexical structure. One is that structure modular: information organized into subsystems pointing to different levels of linguistic structure, and parts can be split recombined. The other concerns the sources morphemes actually occurring in surface strings. As commonly recognized, contains three levels: lexical-conceptual predicate-argument morpho...

English is widely used as a Second Language. Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the 1990s (during my residence) had population of approximately 4 million people who slightly more than 800 languages. Many PNG people, through exogamy, have both mother and father language; they use Tok Pisin (a major dialect Neo-Melanesian Creole English) for everyday communication outside their neighbourhood group; offici...

Interlanguage pragmatics (ILP) has witnessed a growing body of research in the past two decades. One of the under-explored domains of L2 pragmatics is the role of learning strategies specifically tailored for the development of ILP knowledge. Therefore, this investigation aimed to determine the significant interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) used by high vs. low L2 pragmatic achi...

iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks go to Jacy, my inspiration, partner, and guide for the duration of this work; to my parents, for simply assuming that I could (and would) do anything I wanted to; to Kathy, for steering me through this process and my college career; and to Lisa, for providing consistent and persistent collaboration. ABSTRACT Deaf students learning English face a unique and daunting ar...

Nowadays the design of complex systems requires the cooperation of several teams belonging to different cultures and using different languages. It is necessary to dispose of new design and verification methods to handle multilanguage approaches. This paper presents an approach for the interlanguage communication synthesis of heterogeneous specifications. The system is represented by a set of in...