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Rankin, Tom – Second Language Research, 2023
Grammar competition has been proposed as a model for second language (L2) acquisition. Variational Learning provides a framework within which to investigate the idea of grammar competition as the model requires a marriage of quantitative properties of the input with Universal Grammar. A diachronic variational model of grammar competition is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bagwell, Angela Catania – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates "Prateritumschwund," one of the most salient developments in the Upper German dialect area during the Early Modern period. Drawing on a wide range of text types originating in Nuremberg and its surrounding areas from the 13th to the 17th centuries, this study tests various hypotheses put forward as alleged causes…
Descriptors: German, Dialects, Language Research, Diachronic Linguistics
Sajavaara, Kari, Ed. – 1983
A collection of 17 papers, most presented at the Fifth International Conference on Contrastive Projects in June 1982 in Finland, includes: "Present Trends in Contrastive Linguistics,""Contrastive Linguistics in Bulgaria,""Communicative Competence in Foreign Language Teaching: A Project Report,""From Traditional…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics