The present study seeks to evaluate bilinguals’ attitudes towards the contact forms that are manifested in the speech of Spanish-English bilinguals in the United States, and the factors that contribute to this linguistic assessment. Towards that end, bilinguals of diverse proficiencies are presented with five versions of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood/La Caperucita Roja: a normative Spani...

This paper investigates various aspects of intonation and phonation in young adults with Down syndrome. The speech of nine speakers with Down syndrome was analyzed acoustically for different aspects of intonation and phonation. The results of these analyses were compared to similar speech samples of nine typical speakers of Standard British English. The controls were matched for age and gender....

The research is devoted to the study of author's behavior in texts personal correspondence. based on material letters writers early twentieth century. subject was a corpus by six writers. Collectively, (linguistic-rhetorical) works. analysis carried out from position studying strategy influencing reader order formation certain attitude. use pragmalinguistic methods speaker's speech portrait con...

The question of the linguistic personality description character a work art through analysis lexical and syntactic markers is considered. A review main trends in development theory made, which determine objectivity identifying lexical-syntactic marker as unit that integrates units various levels. results functioning word ‘yasno’ [clear], marks protagonist novel “We” by E. Zamyatin, are presente...

The object of consideration in the article is communicative space linguistic community, which can be represented as a set socio-speech spheres. subject research ordinary media communication sphere with its inherent discursive practices and genre forms their implementation. defines boundaries manifestation everyday communication. differentiated on basis two oppositions, taking into account type ...

This paper describes changing needs among the communities that exploit language resources and recent LDC activities and publications that support those needs by providing greater volumes of data and associated resources in a growing inventory of languages with ever more sophisticated annotation. Specifically, it covers the evolving role of data centers with specific emphasis on the LDC, the pub...

ARBITER is a Prolog program that extracts assertions about macromolecular binding relationships from biomedical text. We describe the domain knowledge and the underspecified linguistic analyses that support the identification of these predications. After discussing a formal evaluation of ARBITER, we report on its application to 491,000 MEDLINE ~ abstracts, during which almost 25,000 binding rel...

Formation of intercultural communicative competence in a future specialist is an urgent problem modern professional education. Problems training graduates higher educational institutions who are able to solve and tasks international context considered the article from position competence-based approach. It shown that has integrative nature it complex interdisciplinary problem. The structure com...