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of a phenomenon. Obtaining data from more than one source (e.g. inter- views, observations, and documents) is the most commonly ...

TSE n an abbreviation for test of spoken english T-test n (in testing and statistics) a quantitative procedure for determining t ...

a type of statistical hypothesis test that is appropriately chosen where – based on previous studies – no direction of an effect ...

Type-Token Ratio n another term forlexical density typology n the classification of languages into types. For example, languages ...

U UG n an abbreviation for universal grammar unacceptable adj see acceptable unaccusative verb n a type of intransitive verbwhos ...

unergative verb n an intransitive verb whose subject is an active participant, e.g. walk, run, swim, work, sleep. see also unacc ...

The theory was proposed by Noam Chomsky and has been stated more specifically in his model of government/binding theory. Accordi ...

3 UG is partly available but it is only one factor in the acquisition of L2. There are other factors and they may interfere with ...

attempt to do this. They may say, for example, that people write both all right and alright, but that there are still strong fee ...

c I really have to get it repaired. dWhat about buying me another one? see also illocutionary force, implication, pragmatics, se ...

V Vc, Vccn see bar notation vague language n words or phrases that have a very general or imprecise meaning, and that are common ...

aspects of their own value systems as well as learn about the values of others. For example, questions such as the following mig ...

how much the scores obtained differ from the mean, and is the square of the standard deviation. variant n, adj see variable^1 va ...

verb n (in English) a word which (a) occurs as part of the predicateof a sentence (b) carries markers of grammatical categories ...

still be part of his or her verbal repertoire but it does not belong to the speech repertoire of the community, in this case, Ne ...

verb phrase^2 n in traditional grammar, the auxiliary and main verbs in a sentence that function together as in have been studyi ...

Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English n an electronic corpus compiled at the University of Vienna of spoken English as a ...

vocabulary n a set of lexemes, including single words, compound words and idioms. see also active/passive language knowledge, co ...

vocative vocative n a noun phrase^1 which is an optional part of a sentence, and which names or indicates one being addressed. F ...

When a speech sound which is normally voiced is pronounced without vibration or only slight vibration, this is called devoicing. ...