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A Corpus Based Analysis of Noun Modification in Empirical Research Articles in Applied Linguistics
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In: Dissertations and Theses (2015)
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Previous research has established the importance of the nouns and noun modification in academic writing because of their commonness and complexity. However, little is known about how noun modification varies across the rhetorical sections of research articles. Such a perspective is important because it reflects the interplay between communicative function and linguistic form. This study used a corpus of empirical research articles from the fields of applied linguistics and language teaching to explore the connection between article sections (Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion; IMRD) and six types of noun modification: relative clauses, ing-clause postmodifiers, ed-clause postmodifiers, prepositional postmodifiers, premodifying nouns, and attributive adjectives. First the frequency of these six types of noun modification was compared across IMRD sections. Second, the study also used a hand coded analysis of the structure and structural patterns of a sample of noun phrases through IMRD sections. The results of the analyses showed that noun modification is not uniform across IMRD sections. Significant differences were found in the rates of use for attributive adjectives, premodifying nouns, and prepositional phrase postmodifiers. There were no significant differences between sections for relative clauses, ing-clause postmodifiers, or ed-clause postmodifiers. The differences between sections for attributive adjectives, premodifying nouns, and prepositional phrases illustrate the way the functions of these structures intersects with the functions of IMRD sections. For example, Methods sections describe research methods, which often have premodifying nouns (corpus analysis, conversation analysis, speech sample, etc.); this function of Methods sections results in a higher use of premodifying nouns compared to other sections. Results for structures of noun phrase across IMRD sections showed that the common noun modification patterns, such as premodifying noun only or attributive adjective with prepositional phrase postmodifier, were mostly consistent across sections. Noun phrase structures including pre-/post- or no modification did have differences across sections, with Introduction sections the most frequently modified and Methods sections the least frequently modified. The different functions of IMRD sections call for different rates of usage for noun modification, and the results reflected this. The results of this research benefit teachers of graduate students of applied linguistics in students' research reading and writing by describing the use of noun modification in the sections of empirical research articles and aiding teachers in the design of materials to clarify the use of noun modification in these IMRD sections.
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Academic writing -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Research; Comparative and general -- Noun -- Research; Corpora (Linguistics) -- Research; English language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching (Graduate) -- Research; Grammar; Higher Education; Rhetoric and Composition; Technical and Professional Writing
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URL: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2211
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3212&context=open_access_etds
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Development of English lexicon and morphology in 5-year-old Serbian-English bilingual children attending first year of schooling in Australia
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The Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and narrative assessment: evidence for specific narrative impairments in autism spectrum disorders
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An Investigation of the Generic Features of Research Articles Published in the Bulletin of Iranian Mathematical Society
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In: Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol 8, Iss 16, Pp 110-137 (2015) (2015)
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Универсальный справочник по грамматике латинского языка ; Enchiridion universale in grammatica Latina ; The Universal Guide to Latin Grammar
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Introduction [Online resource]
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In: Proceedings of the Workshop BantuSynPhonIS : Preverbal Domain(s), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 57, S. 1-4 57 (2014), 1-4
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Locative inversion in Cuwabo [Online resource]
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In: Proceedings of the Workshop BantuSynPhonIS : Preverbal Domain(s), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin; ZASPil Vol. 57, S. 49-71 57 (2014), 49-71
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La enseñanza de la lectura en una segunda lengua : la importancia de la conciencia y el control metacognitivo en la comprensión del texto narrativo (versión cuento) y el texto expositivo ...
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La enseñanza de la lectura en una segunda lengua : la importancia de la conciencia y el control metacognitivo en la comprensión del texto narrativo (versión cuento) y el texto expositivo
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A test of productive English grammatical ability in academic writing: Development and validation
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In: Graduate Theses and Dissertations (2014)
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