Academic literature on the topic 'Cantonese dialects Singapore Psychological aspects'

06–20Abbott, Chris (King's College, U London, UK) & Alim Shaikh, Visual representation in the digital age: Issues arising from a case study of digital media use and representation by pupils in multicultural school settings. Language and Education (Multilingual Matters) 19.6 (2005), 455–466.06–21Andreou, Georgia & Napoleon Mitsis (U Thessaly, Greece), Greek as a foreign language for speakers of Arabic: A study of medical students at the University of Thessaly. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Multilingual Matters) 18.2 (2005), 181–187.06–22Aune, R. Kelly (U Hawaii at Manoa, USA; kaune@hawaii.edu), Timothy R. Levine, Hee Sun Park, Kelli Jean K. Asada & John A. Banas, Tests of a theory of communicative responsibility. Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Sage) 24.4 (2005), 358–381.06–23Belz, Julie A. (The Pennsylvania State U, USA; jab63@psu.edu) & Nina Vyatkina, Learner corpus analysis and the development of L2 pragmatic competence in networked intercultural language study: The case of German modal particles. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 17–48.06–24Bird, Stephen (U Brunei Darussalam, Brunei; sbird@fass.ubd.edu.bn), Language learning edutainment: Mixing motives in digital resources. RELC Journal (Sage) 36.3 (2005), 311–339.06–25Carrington, Victoria (U Plymouth, UK), The uncanny, digital texts and literacy. Language and Education (Multilingual Matters) 19.6 (2005), 467–482.06–26Chung, Yang-Gyun (International Languages Program, Ottawa, Canada; jchung2536@rogers.com), Barbara Graves, Mari Wesche & Marion Barfurth, Computer-mediated communication in Korean–English chat rooms: Tandem learning in an international languages program. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 49–86.06–27Clopper, Cynthia G. & David B. Pisoni, Effects of talker variability on perceptual learning of dialects, Language and Speech (Kingston Press) 47.3 (2004), 207–239.06–28Csizér, Kata (Eötvös U, Budapest, Hungary; weinkata@yahoo.com) & Zoltán Dörnyei, Language learners' motivational profiles and their motivated learning behavior. Language Learning (Blackwell) 55.4 (2005), 613–659.06–29Davis, Adrian (Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao, China; ajdavis@ipm.edu.mo), Teachers' and students' beliefs regarding aspects of language learning. Evaluation and Research in Education (Multilingual Matters) 17.4 (2003), 207–222.06–30Deterding, David (Nanyang Technological U, Singapore; dhdeter@nie.edu.sg), Listening to Estuary English in Singapore. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 39.3 (2005), 425–440.06–31Dörnyei, Zoltán (U Nottingham, UK; zoltan.dornyei@nottingham.ac.uk) & Kata Csizér, The effects of intercultural contact and tourism on language attitudes and language learning motivation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology (Sage) 24.4 (2005), 327–357.06–32Enk, Anneke van (Simon Fraser U, Burnaby, Canada), Diane Dagenais & Kelleen Toohey, A socio-cultural perspective on school-based literacy research: Some emerging considerations. Language and Education (Multilingual Matters) 19.6 (2005), 496–512.06–33Foster, Pauline & Amy Snyder Ohta (St Mary's College, U London, UK), Negotiation for meaning and peer assistance in second language classrooms. Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) 26.3 (2005), 402–430.06–34Furmanovsky, Michael (Ryukoku U, Japan), Japanese students' reflections on a short-term language program. The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Language Teaching) 29.12 (2005), 3–9.06–35Gass, Susan (Michigan State U, USA; gass@msu.edu), Alison Mackey & Lauren Ross-Feldman, Task-based interactions in classroom and laboratory settings. Language Learning (Blackwell) 55.4 (2005), 575–611.06–36Gatbonton, Elizabeth, Pavel Trofimovich & Michael Magid (Concordia U, USA), Learners' ethnic group affiliation and L2 pronunciation accuracy: A sociolinguistic investigation. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 39.3 (2005), 489–512.06–37Gerjets, Peter & Friedrich Hesse (Knowledge Media Research Center, Germany; p.gerjets@iwm-kmrc.de), When are powerful learning environments effective? The role of learner activities and of students' conceptions of educational technology. International Journal of Educational Research (Elsevier) 41.6 (2004), 445–465.06–38Golombek, Paula & Stefanie Jordan (The Pennsylvania State U, USA), Becoming ‘black lambs’ not ‘parrots’: A poststructuralist orientation to intelligibility and identity. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 39.3 (2005), 513–534.06–39Green, Christopher (Hong Kong Polytechnic U, Hong Kong, China; egchrisg@polyu.edu.hk), Integrating extensive reading in the task-based curriculum. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 306–311.06–40Hardison, Debra M. (Michigan State U, USA; hardiso2@msu.edu), Second-language spoken word identification: Effects of perceptual training, visual cues, and phonetic environment. Applied Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press) 26.4 (2005), 579–596.06–41Harwood, Nigel (U Essex, UK; nharwood@essex.ac.uk), ‘We do not seem to have a theory … the theory I present here attempts to fill this gap’: Inclusive and exclusive pronouns in academic writing. Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) 26.3 (2005), 343–375.06–42Hauser, Eric (U Electro-Communications, Japan), Coding ‘corrective recasts’: The maintenance of meaning and more fundamental problems. Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) 26.3 (2005), 293–316.06–43Kondo-Brown, Kimi (U Hawaii at Manoa, USA; kondo@hawaii.edu), Differences in language skills: Heritage language learner subgroups and foreign language learners. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 89.4 (2005), 563–581.06–44Koprowski, Mark (markkoprowski@yahoo.com), Investigating the usefulness of lexical phrases in contemporary coursebooks. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 322–332.06–45LaFrance, Adéle (U Toronto, Canada; alafrance@oise.utoronto.ca) & Alexandra Gottardo, A longitudinal study of phonological processing skills and reading in bilingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press) 26.4 (2005), 559–578.06–46Nassaji, Hossein (U Victoria, Canada), Input modality and remembering name-referent associations in vocabulary learning. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics) 7.1 (2004), 39–55.06–47Nguyen, Hanh Thi (Hawaii Pacific U, USA; htnguyen@hawaii.edu) & Guy Kellogg, Emergent identities in on-line discussions for second language learning. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 111–136.06–48Norton, Julie (U Leicester, UK; jen7@le.ac.uk), The paired format in the Cambridge Speaking Tests. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 287–297.06–49North, Sarah (The Open U, UK), Disciplinary variation in the use of theme in undergraduate essays. Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press) 26.3 (2005), 431–452.06–50Nunan, David (U Hong Kong, China), Styles and strategies in the language classroom. The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Language Teaching) 29.6 (2005), 9–11.06–51Paribakht, T. Sima (U Ottawa, Canada; paribakh@uottawa.ca), The influence of first language lexicalization on second language lexical inferencing: A study of Farsi-speaking learners of English as a foreign language. Language Learning (Blackwell) 55.4 (2005), 701–748.06–52Potts, Diana (U British Columbia, Canada; djpotts7@hotmail.com), Pedagogy, purpose, and the second language learner in on-line communities. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 137–160.06–53Pretorius, Elizabeth J. (U South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa; pretoej@unisa.ac.za), English as a second language learner differences in anaphoric resolution: Reading to learn in the academic context. Applied Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press) 26.4 (2005), 521–539.06–54Ramírez Verdugo, Dolores (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; dolores.ramirez@uam.es), The nature and patterning of native and non-native intonation in the expression of certainty and uncertainty: Pragmatic effects. Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier) 37.12 (2005), 2086–2115.06–55Riney, Timothy J., Naoyuki Takagi & Kumiko Inutsu (Interntional Christian U, Japan), Phonetic parameters and perceptual judgments of accent in English by American and Japanese listeners. TESOL Quarterly (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) 39.3 (2005), 441–466.06–56Rossiter, Marian J. (U Alberta, Canada), Developmental sequences of L2 communication strategies. Applied Language Learning (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Presidio of Monterey, USA) 15.1 & 15.2 (2005), 55–66.06–57Rubdy, Rani (Nanyang Technological U, Singapore; rsrubdy@nie.edu.sg), A multi-thrust approach to fostering a research culture. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 277–286.06–58Schneider, Jason (jasoncschneider@yahoo.com), Teaching grammar through community issues. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 59.4 (2005), 298–305.06–59Shaaban, Kassim (American U Beirut, Lebanon), A proposed framework for incorporating moral education into the ESL/EFL classroom. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Multilingual Matters) 18.2 (2005), 201–217.06–60Sider, Steve R. (U Western Ontario, Canada), Growing up overseas: Perceptions of second language attrition and retrieval amongst expatriate children in India. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics) 7.2 (2004), 117–138.06–61Spiliotopoulus, Valia (U Toronto, Canada; valia.spiliotopoulos@ubc.ca) & Stephen Carey, Investigating the role of identity in writing using electronic bulletin boards. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 87–109.06–62Sueyoshi, Ayano (Michigan State U, USA; hardiso2@msu.edu) & Debra M. Hardison, The role of gestures and facial cues in second language listening comprehension. Language Learning (Blackwell) 55.4 (2005), 661–699.06–63Taguchi, Naoko (Carnegie Mellon U, USA; taguchi@andrew.cmu.edu), Comprehending implied meaning in English as a foreign language. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 89.4 (2005), 543–562.06–64Taillefer, Gail F. (Université Toulouse I Sciences Sociales, France; gail.taillefer@univ-tlse1.fr), Foreign language reading and study abroad: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic questions. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 89.4 (2005), 503–528.06–65Tani-Fukuchi, Naoko (Kwansei Gakuin U, Japan), Japanese learner psychology and assessment of affect in foreign language study. The Language Teacher (Japan Association for Language Teaching) 29.4 (2005), 3–9.06–66Tani-Fukuchi, Naoko (Kwansei Gakuin U, Hyogo, Japan) & Robin Sakamoto, Affective dimensions of the Japanese foreign language learner: Implications for psychological learner development in Japan. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Multilingual Matters) 26.4 (2005), 333–350.06–67Thoms, Joshua (U Iowa, USA; joshua_thomas@uiowa.edu), Jianling Liao & Anja Szustak, The use of L1 in an L2 on-line chat activity. The Canadian Modern Language Review (University of Toronto Press) 62.1 (2005), 161–182.06–68Tickoo, Asha (Southern Illinois U, USA; atickoo@siue.edu), The selective marking of past tense: Insights from Indian learners of English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell) 15.3 (2005), 364–378.06–69Tocalli-Beller, Agustina & Merrill Swain (U Toronto, Canada; atocalli-beller@oise.utoronto.ca), Reformulation: The cognitive conflict and L2 learning it generates. International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell) 15.1 (2005), 5–28.06–70Trofimovich, Pavel (Concordia U, Quebec, Canada; pavel@education.concordia.ca), Spoken-word processing in native and second languages: An investigation of auditory word priming. Applied Psycholinguistics (Cambridge University Press) 26.4 (2005), 479–504.06–71Tuveng, Elena (U Oslo, Norway) & Astri Heen Wold, The collaboration of teacher and language-minority children in masking comprehension problems in the language of instruction: A case study in an urban Norwegian school. Language and Education (Multilingual Matters) 19.6 (2005), 513–536.06–72Warga, Muriel (Karl Franzens U, Graz, Austria), ‘Je serais très merciable’: Formulaic vs. creatively produced speech in learners' request closings. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics) 8.1 (2005), 67–94.

Jia, Shiwei.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-114).
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Abstract also in Chinese.

本論文從語言使用者的心理層面及對實體存現的預設兩方面來考察“實指/虛指“(specific/non-specific)這一組概念，並研究它們在香港粤語語法中的表現方式。實指/虛指與名詞短語的指稱狀態有關：在使用一個名詞短語時，如果說話人心裡存在特定的指稱對象，這個名詞短語即為實指名詞短語；如果說話人心裡不存在特定的指稱對象，這個名詞短語即為虛指（非實指）名詞短語。
為能從跨語言的視角把握實指/虛指的本質，本文探討了實指名詞短語的兩個定義性特徵，以及與實指/虛指現象有關的因素，並且系統地回顧了前人對該現象的幾個具代表性的分析方法。本文認為應從語用學的角度分析實指/虛指現象，才能更充份地說明實証語料，即基於聽話人是否有某種理由假設說話人在使用某一名詞短語時心裡存在特定的指稱對象。這一觀點從具體分析土耳其語及普通話中與實指/虛指相關的語言結構可得到印證。
本文進一步研究了實指/虛指概念在香港粤語語法中的語言表現形式，對影響實指/虛指的有關因素進行分析，例如名詞形式、句法位置及語境。我們對幾種名詞短語在已然及未然語境下的實指/虛指理解提出了一個系統分析。然後，我們深入分析了粤語中一般被認為是實指標記的名詞成分"某"。我們認為“某“能在已然語境中實指，也可在某些未然語境中虛指。本文揭示粤語中的“某“是一個具有某種預設性的特指性定詞（趙元任1968；張洪年2007），具有預設性，包含“特定性這一語義成分，並受某種“數量限制“所約束。我們把“某“分析為一個能把某一個集合由另一個集合中區別出來的函數，其函數值按會話語境而定。我們認為這個函數分析能夠解釋為甚麼帶“某“的名詞短語既能實指亦可虛指。本文進一步提出人類語言中實指虛指的語法化，可能通過把某種現存性融入到語法來實現。
This thesis investigates the notion of 'specificity' with reference to the psychological state of language users, existential presupposition of entities, and the relation between these notions and their potential linguistic encoding in the grammar of Hong Kong Cantonese. Specificity concerns the referential status of noun phrases; a specific noun phrase is generally taken to be one used when the speaker has a particular referent in mind for it, whereas a non-specific noun phrase is one used when the speaker does not have any particular referent in mind.
In an effort to grasp the essence of specificity encoding in the grammar of human languages, we critically review the defining characteristics of specific nominals, factors relevant to specificity, and the representative major approaches to the study of this phenomenon. It will be argued that an empirically adequate treatment should look at specificity from a pragmatic perspective, based on whether the hearer has some reason(s) to assume that the speaker has the ability to identify the referent s/he has in mind for the noun phrase s/he uses. This view coincides with concrete analyses of selected specificity-related linguistic structures in languages such as Turkish and Mandarin Chinese.
The rest of the study examines how specificity may be encoded in the grammar of Cantonese. The distribution of specific nominals in Cantonese is found to be the result of the interplay between noun form, syntactic position, and context. Cantonese nominals containing the element mau5, which is putatively a marker of specific reference, are shown to be specific in the realis and the soeng "want" contexts in general, but potentially non-specific in certain irrealis contexts. A lexicographic scrutiny of Cantonese mau5 reveals that mau5 is a "specifying determiner" (Chao 1968; Cheung 2007) encoded with presuppositionality, the meaning of "particularity", and is constrained by a "quantity restriction". We analyze mau5 as a function with a context-dependent value differentiating a set of entity/entities out of a superset, explaining the chameleon behavior of nominals containing mau5. We further argue for the possibility that grammaticalization of specificity is through the encoding of some sort of existentiality in the grammar of human languages.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Tse, Ming San Crono.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-122).
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Abstracts also in Chinese.
Acknowledgements --- p.i
Abstract --- p.iii
摘要 --- p.iv
Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Some Characteristics of Specific Noun Phrases --- p.1
Chapter 1.2 --- Specificity and its Linguistic Encoding in Cantonese --- p.4
Chapter 1.3 --- Goals of Research --- p.9
Chapter Chapter Two --- Factors Relevant to Specificity and Approaches to Specificity --- p.11
Chapter 2.1 --- Factors Relevant to Specificity --- p.11
Chapter 2.1.1 --- The Ability to Establish Discourse Referents --- p.11
Chapter 2.1.2 --- Non-restrictive Relative Clause Modification --- p.12
Chapter 2.1.3 --- Verb Type --- p.13
Chapter 2.1.4 --- The Length of Descriptive Modifiers --- p.14
Chapter 2.1.5 --- Mass Terms --- p.15
Chapter 2.1.6 --- Assumptions about Entities Held by Interlocutors --- p.15
Chapter 2.2 --- Major Approaches to Specificity --- p.16
Chapter 2.2.1 --- Interpreting Specificity in Terms of Logical Scope --- p.17
Chapter 2.2.2 --- Lexical Ambiguity Approach --- p.20
Chapter 2.2.3 --- Pragmatic Approach --- p.26
Chapter 2.3 --- The Nature of Specificity --- p.31
Chapter 2.4 --- Language-particular Analyses of Specificity --- p.39
Chapter 2.4.1 --- Object-case Marking in Turkish --- p.39
Chapter 2.4.2 --- The Subject Constraint and OMN in Mandarin Chinese --- p.42
Chapter 2.4.3 --- Secondary Predication in Mandarin Chinese --- p.48
Chapter 2.5 --- An Eclectic View on Specificity in the Grammar --- p.49
Chapter Chapter Three --- An Investigation of Specificity Encoding in Cantonese --- p.53
Chapter 3.1 --- Reasons for Studying Various Nominal Forms in --- p.53
Chapter 3.2 --- Nominal Forms Relevant to the Specificity Phenomenon --- p.59
Chapter 3.3 --- Nominals in Realis Contexts --- p.60
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Nominals in the Subject Position --- p.60
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Nominals in the Object Position --- p.63
Chapter 3.3.3 --- Interim Discussion --- p.64
Chapter 3.4 --- Nominals in the Soeng "want" Context --- p.67
Chapter 3.5 --- Nominals in the Jyugwo "if and the Muidong" whenever Contexts --- p.69
Chapter 3.6 --- Conclusions --- p.75
Chapter Chapter Four --- On Mau5 in Cantonese --- p.77
Chapter 4.1 --- The Categorial Status of Mau5 --- p.78
Chapter 4.2 --- The Semantics of Mau5 --- p.82
Chapter 4.2.1 --- Previous Analyses of Mau5 in the Literature --- p.82
Chapter 4.2.2 --- The Presuppositionality of Mau5 --- p.84
Chapter 4.2.3 --- The Quantity Aspect of Mau5 --- p.98
Chapter Chapter Five --- Conclusions --- p.104
Chapter 5.1 --- Summary --- p.104
Chapter 5.2 --- Implications and Residual Questions --- p.107
Chapter 5.2.1 --- The Semantic Complexities of Quantification --- p.107
Chapter 5.2.2 --- On the Referentiality of Non-specific Nominals --- p.107
Chapter 5.2.3 --- The "Quantity Restriction" --- p.109
Chapter 5.2.4 --- Potential Limitations on the Value of the Function --- p.110
Chapter 5.2.5 --- Semantics-Phonology Interface --- p.112
Chapter Appendix: --- Other Uses of Mau5 --- p.113
References --- p.119

Sum Kwok-wing.
Thesis submitted in: December 2003.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-79).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.ii
Chinese Abstract (論文摘要) --- p.iii
Acknowledgements --- p.iv
Table of Contents --- p.v
List of Tables --- p.vi
List of Figures --- p.vii
Chapter Chapter 1 - --- "Significance of Onset, Rime and Tone in Monosyllab Words" --- p.1
Chapter Chapter 2 - --- General Methods --- p.19
Chapter Chapter 3 - --- Experiment 1 --- p.28
Chapter Chapter 4 - --- Experiment 2 --- p.35
Chapter Chapter 5 - --- Experiment 3 --- p.41
Chapter Chapter 6 - --- Comparison and Summary of the First Three Experiments --- p.47
Chapter Chapter 7 - --- Experiment 4 --- p.53
Chapter Chapter 8 - --- General Discussion --- p.59
References --- p.72
Appendix I --- p.79
Appendix II --- p.87
Appendix III --- p.95
Appendix IV --- p.103
Appendix V --- p.111
Appendix VI --- p.112
Appendix VII --- p.113