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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics (OJML) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in modern linguistics. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of…
Omar A. Alkhonini, Douglas J. Wulf
This small-scale longitudinal study investigates a technique for assisting English learners to achieve more native-like pronunciation of onset consonant clusters. Study participants were ESL students with L1s that lack onset clusters (Arabic and Mandarin Chin…
Qiuhong Xing
The construction “N 1 you V guo N 2 ” pervasively visible in China has demonstrated its typical cog-pragmatic features. It is pointed out that “you” and “guo” in this construction are the results of notional verbs’ grammaticalization. Grammatical features and…
Yan Gao, Yaxin Wu
Laughter, as an important interactional resource, has been recognized as not simply a response to humor in many researches. It is much related to an action formation from the perspective of Conversation Analysis. In this oral proficiency interviews for admiss…
Michael P. Mansbridge, Katsuo Tamaoka
Because the Japanese language does not have a robust plural morpheme system, it is morphologically incongruent with English. As such, L1 Japanese learners of L2 English are argued to be unable to fully acquire English plural morphemes. While previous studies…
Maharramova Malahat Abdurrahman Gizi
The paper defines the ways and peculiarities of word formation in modern German language. The paper deals with one of the ways of enriching the verb vocabulary in the modern German language, in particular wordbuilding. In the result of the analysis of the lan…
Yi Yang
There are many factors influencing the effect of college oral English teaching. The main problems in college English teaching are as follows: the current teachers’ teaching cannot meet the needs of students; students have low self-efficacy in oral English stu…
Selma Ozaydin
This paper examines the early studies on Turkish Whistle Language and it argues that they have some controversial results. The study considers these issues need to be discussed and searched again in terms of linguistic and phonetic form. Unfortunately, there…
Mousa A. Btoosh
This study aims to shed light on the microsyntactic units and discourse grammar of Kam, a language spoken in Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi Provinces in China. To this end, the paper explores the use and functions of particles and classifiers, and how the discour…
Selma Ozaydin
This paper presents the acoustic and linguistic properties of Turkish Whistle Language. Whistle Language is a natural communication method usually used for far-distance interaction in some regions in the world. In a whistled speech, auditory features of spoke…
Kaiye Yang
Taking as its data of the two speeches by David Cameron and Theresa May, this paper summarizes different frames in order to generalize the strategies towards Brexit. The expressions are classified into the non-metaphorical ones and the metaphorical ones, in o…
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