The concept of language barrier has its derivations in the fields of dialectology, sociology and psychology. In contemporary usage however, the concept has two meanings i.e. regional-cultural barrier and socio-cultural barrier. (Text is in German.) (DS)

A contrastive analysis investigating points of interference experienced by native speakers of German learning Russian. Special attention is given to aspect. (Text is in German.) (TL)

The article describes particular structural aspects of German which are likely to cause difficulties for Polish-speaking learners. (Text is in German.) (DH)

Discusses for the benefit of German students of Russian the various ways of rendering in Russian the German verb "haben" (have) used in the sense of "besitzen" (own). Numerous examples are presented. (Text is in German.) (FB)

Concludes that the German used in the east Belgium newspaper differs fr om standard High German. Proceeds to list these differences in the areas of lexicology, semantics and stylistics, morphology and syntax, orthography e tc. (Text is in German.) (DS)

Speakers of dialects are at a disadvantage in society. The intention is to teach them the standard language using the contrastive analysis approach. (Text is in German.) (TL)

This proceedings contains papers from the first European seminar of the Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure (TELRI) include: "Cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe in Language Engineering" (Poul Andersen); "Language Technology and Language Resources in China" (Feng Zhiwei); "Public Domain Generic Tools:…