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Choi, Heekyung – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study examines how English has penetrated the Korean language by analyzing Anglicisms in weekly news magazine articles, with special reference to translation as a mode of language contact. For this purpose, it conducts a diachronic quantitative analysis of the occurrence of Anglicisms by compiling and utilizing corpora consisting of…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Korean
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Childers, Jane B.; Paik, Jae H.; Flores, Melissa; Lai, Gabrielle; Dolan, Megan – Cognitive Science, 2017
Extending new verbs is important in becoming a productive speaker of a language. Prior results show children have difficulty extending verbs when they have seen events with varied agents. This study further examines the impact of variability on verb learning and asks whether variability interacts with event complexity or differs by language.…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Research, Learning Processes, Toddlers
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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Seo, Hyun-Kyoung – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
We document weak garden paths after intransitive verbs, modulated by intransitivity type, in the treatment of DP[subscript 1] V[subscript intransitive] DP[subscript 2] V[subscript 2] sequences as in "As the journalist arrived the editor postponed the meeting" in first language (L1) and second language (L2) sentence processing. In a…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing