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A Changing Role for Transitional Probabilities in Word Learning during the Transition to Toddlerhood?
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Jill Lany; Ferhat Karaman; Jessica F. Hay – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' sensitivity to transitional probabilities (TPs) supports language development by facilitating mapping high-TP (HTP) words to meaning, at least up to 18 months of age. Here we tested whether this HTP advantage holds as lexical development progresses, and infants become better at forming word--referent mappings. Two groups of 24-month-olds…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics
Non-Linear Structures in L2-Italian and Spanish: The Case of Clitics and Passives
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Pietro Pesce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present dissertation intends to investigate the syntactic nature and L2-acquisition of passive sentence structure in two Romance varieties, Italian and Spanish. First, I will present an analytic proposal couched within the Generative Approach (Chomsky, 1957, and subsequent work); from there, and following Perlmutter and Postal's (1977)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Syntax, Spanish
"I Think Mangiò Might Be Passé Simple": Exploring Multilingual Learners' Reflections on Past Tense Verb Morphology
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Francesco Vallerossa – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The study investigates the reflections on tempo-aspectual morphology in Italian expressed by undergraduate multilingual learners with previous knowledge of Swedish and a Romance language (N = 22). The reflections of the participants, who were divided into four groups depending on a combination of proficiency in their background Romance language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency