English Adjectives in Online Comments of Algerian English Speakers

English Nouns English Coarse English Verbs English Adjectives

English and Korean Speakers’

In this study, I carried out a quasi-experimental task that attempted to examine some aspects of the Sapir/Whorf hypothesis; namely, the extent to which the grammar of one’s language affects one’s way of thinking about the experienced world. A task was designed to evaluate the influence that language operates on the mind of native English and Korean speakers in the categorization of spatial act...

Functions of attributive adjectives in English

This is a paper about premodification in the English noun phrase, focusing on functions of attributive adjectives. Modification in general is an issue that has received comparatively little attention in linguistic research, at least outside the field of syntax (see eg Frawley 1992: 437); Although there are some systematic descriptions of premodifier functions to be found in the literature, much...

Phonetic convergence of Mandarin L2 English speakers towards Australian English

Speech convergence provides a good model on studying L2 accent change in a short-term conversation. The present study investigates Mandarin L2 English speakers accommodating towards an Australian speaker before and after a task-based conversation. Acoustic analysis and a perceptual AXB test on the vowels /ɐ:/, /æ/ and /o:/ were carried out to measure the convergence effect before and after the ...

Predicate-Argument Structure of English Adjectives

This paper will argue the following points. 1) What is a semantic status of prepositional phrases in such sentences as "Tom is good at tennis," "It is wise of Tom to go there," "This book is easy for John to read. "? 2) What is the semantic status of to infinitive (henceforth, to VP) in the following sentences : "He is honest to bring back the money," "He is sure to win." 3) Is there a semantic...