This paper presents innovative approaches to improving lexical competence of non-linguistic students. The authors analyze the concept terminological vocabulary in professional discourse, paying special attention peculiarities teaching vocational-oriented majoring Pedagogical technologies based on plurilingual approach professionally oriented are offered this article. disclose main features acqu...

This article revisits a vexed question, namely the phonological interpretation of Germanic and Old High German distance assimilation changes. It will be argued that 1) prehistoric subsystem short vowels should reconstructed with five phonemes (/i/, /e/, /u/, /o/, /a/), not four /u ~ o/, /a/) or three (/i e/, /a/); 2) umlaut phenomena produced phonemic changes before factors triggered them off c...

The paper presents the result of a research into issue four-phase method ESP listening using topic-based dialogue-interview which contributes to development communicative competence IR students Saint Petersburg State University. Different aspects are studied through an attempt identify students’ difficulties in and role sociocultural component method. effectiveness is evaluated by means survey ...

This dissertation develops a grammar of phonetic implementation of phonologically significant F0 (pitch) events, which is applicable across languages. Through production studies of various languages, we show that phonetic universals exist which govern phonetic realization of the phonological representations of tones. In the previous literature, there have been two conflicting views concerning t...

Two types of consonant gemination characterize Italian: lexical and syntactic. Italian is contrastive, so that two words may differ by only one geminated consonant. In contrast, syntactic occurs across word boundaries, affects the initial a in specific contexts, such as presence monosyllabic morpheme before word. This study investigates acoustic correlates gemination, asking if for are similar ...

Previous research by Dupoux et al. [Dupoux, E., Pallier, C., Sebastián, N., & Mehler, J. (1997). A destressing "deafness" in French? Journal of Memory Language 36, 406-421; Dupoux, E., Peperkamp, S., & Sebastián-Gallés (2001). A robust method to study stress' deafness. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110, 1608-1618.] found that French speakers, as opposed to Spanish ones, are impai...

This study seeks to analyse the occurrence of contrastive relational markers in a corpus recipes called Corpus Women’s Instructive Texts English, 19th century sub-corpus (COWITE19). Opposition relations, also referred as adversative or contrastive, are usually identified with such “but”, “although”, and “however”. From semantic point view, classification these relations can be established into ...

Abstract We consider two asymmetries reported in the literature on word prosodic systems: tendency to allow more contrast nouns than verbs and avoid stress functional material. focus interaction between these tendencies propose a formal mechanism handle this couched Optimality Theory. In case study group of standard Serbo-Croatian varieties that have predictable but contrastive nouns, we develo...

The purpose of the study is to determine need ethnocultural trend in national education, its place at state level, especially as a national-regional component. author article substantiates reasons and patterns development education Russia multinational country role formation unity due inclusion ethnopedagogical component training future school teachers university educational environment. scient...