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The link between linguistic subordination and linguistic inferiority complexes: English as a second language migrants in Australia

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2021
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This article aims to explore the link between linguistic subordination and linguistic inferiority complexes in the context of English as a second language (ESL) migrants in Australia. We address the following research questions: (a) To what extent and how do ESL migrants in Australia suffer from ...
Ana Tankosić   +2 more
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Subordination and linguistic complexity

Discourse Processes, 1992
Subordination is frequently used as a measure of language complexity in educational and linguistic research. This article demonstrates, however, that in spoken discourse many clauses introduced by “subordinating conjunctions” are not actually subordinate, whether subordination is considered a structural concept (the embedding of one clause within ...
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Acquisition of subordinate categories by 3-year-olds: The roles of attribute salience, linguistic input, and child characteristics

Cognitive Development, 1994
Abstract This study was concerned with factors that may affect young 3-year-olds' acquisition of subordinate categories. Three factors were considered: (a) salience of the attribute or attributes which differentiate a subordinate category from other subordinates subsumed under the same basic level category, (b) presence or absence of linguistic input
Carolyn B. Mervis   +2 more
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Language and power: an empirical analysis of linguistic strategies used in superior-subordinate communication

Journal of Organizational Behavior, 2000
Importing the anthropological, sociolinguistic theory of ‘politeness’ into the domain of organizational studies, this article presents results of a laboratory study that illustrates how power is communicated through specific linguistic gestures differentially used by superiors and subordinates throughout daily interchange.
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Transaction of cognitive‐linguistic abilities and adult input: A case study of the acquisition of colour terms and colour‐based subordinate object categories

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1995
Data from a comprehensive diary study of early lexical development were analysed to document the acquisition of colour terms and the acquisition of colour‐based subordinate object categories by one child who learned all 11 basic colour terms prior to age 2:0 years. The pattern of child colour‐term production and adult feedback for colour‐term usage was
Carolyn B. Mervis   +2 more
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Working Memory Capacity and Contextual Novel Linguistic Input: A Cross-Modal Priming Study on Persian–English Subordinate Bilinguals

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
The present study investigated the effect of verbal working memory capacity (VWMC) on the processing of semantic information during on-line lexical ambiguity resolution of bilinguals. Seventeen Persian-English subordinate bilinguals of similar proficiency level were recruited to perform two experimental tasks: (1) a multi-load-level reading span task ...
Hamid R. Hamidnia   +2 more
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Transaction of Child Cognitive-Linguistic Abilities and Adult Input in the Acquisition of Lexical Categories at the Basic and Subordinate Levels

2003
Abstract Studies of category development typically are cross-sectional, use a group design, and focus on one or at most a few categories or category labels. Furthermore, designs usually are experimental rather than observational. This approach is highly practical and the chapters in this book provide ample evidence of its success in ...
Carolyn B Mervis   +2 more
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