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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…
Ping Wu, Ping Hu
In Pinghua dialect used by Miao and Yao autonomous in southwest Hunan of China, Beijing dialect’s noun suffix “子” has different literary and colloquial forms such as the pronunciation and many other unique colloquial pronunciations that each pronounced as a s…
Tongxuan Jiang
Epitaph, as a kind of praising memorial article, its smooth style of writing, complimentary remarks and clever allusions are all leaving rich cultural wealth to the future generations. It is valuable to learn the cultural words in epitaph, especially for the…
Yu Shi
The acts of human beings are usually guided by our purposes. To meet our purposes, we deliberately take different strategies. It is the same case in verbal communication. In communication, vague language has been widely applied as a discursive strategy to ach…
Jia Wang, Caihua Xu
Based on the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1978; MacWhinney, 2005; MacWhinney, 2012), the present study investigates L2 cue strategies in the acquisition of Chinese notional passives by English-speaking and Japanese-speaking learners. Two experiments…
Nan Zhao, Yunxia Yan, Xinfa Yuan
At present, duplicate research has become very common among English thesis writing in universities. This thesis aims at applying divergent thinking in English thesis writing teaching, trying to find ways of choosing good topics in thesis writing.
Shigeo Kato, Kento Tanaka
Recent advance in neuropsychology has evidenced a facilitative role of sensorimotor activity for the development in L2 speech perception. The study attempted to examine the relationship between reading aloud (RA) performance, grammatical knowledge and listeni…
Wenmin Li, Xue Wang, Shihan Hou
This paper, with the audience theory as its theoretical guide and by taking a case study on Bilingual traffic Public Signs in Xi’an, especially on bilingual station names of Xi’an Metro Line 2, first briefly discusses how an important role city traffic public…
Katsuo Tamaoka, Kyoko Hayakawa, Michael Patrick Mansbridge, Maria Eduardovna Bulaeva, Kexin Xiong, Masatoshi Koizumi, Kuniya Nasukawa
Nasukawa, Yasugi and Koizumi (2013) propose that the dependency structure and stress assignment patterns in Kaqchikel are reversed compared to Indo-European languages. Following this argument, words in Kaqchikel are expected to be phonologically processed in…
Baha Makhoul, Elite Olshtain, Raphiq Ibrahim, 1 1
The current study investigated the efficacy of a computerized-tutored intervention program in fostering phonological awareness skills amongst 40 At-linguistic Risk Arab first graders. In addition, it examines the role of the pupils’ motivation on the learning…
Christopher Horn
This essay will offer an introduction to the long-debated issue of <i>diglossia</i> in the Arabic-speaking world, together with an overview of some of the effects it brings about within the Arab society against the background of the governing Islamic creed. A…
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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… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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