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Acquisition of the Nominal Case System in Russian as a Second Language
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Cherepovskaia, Natalia; Slioussar, Natalia; Denissenko Denissenko, Anna – Second Language Research, 2022
Using written texts elicited from students with different proficiency levels, we studied the acquisition of nominal cases in Russian as a second language. We established the order in which cases were acquired (nominative, locative, accusative, genitive, instrumental, and dative), as well as certain characteristics of their acquisition…
Descriptors: Russian, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Native and Second Language Processing of Quantifier Scope Ambiguity
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Chung, Eun Seon; Shin, Jeong-Ah – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study investigates native (L1) and second language (L2) processing of scope ambiguities in English sentences containing the universal quantifier every in subject NP and negation. Previous studies in L1 and L2 processing of scope ambiguities have found speakers to generally employ a 'minimal effort' principle that highly prefers the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
Processing Gender Agreement in an Additional Language: The More Languages the Better?
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Dlugosz, Kamil – Second Language Research, 2023
Although previous research has observed a facilitative influence of the first language (L1) on the acquisition and processing of gender agreement in a second language (L2), particularly in language pairs with similar gender agreement marking, the question of whether knowledge of two languages with gender can confer an additional advantage for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Task Analysis, Accuracy
Lexical Fixedness and Compositionality in L1 Speakers' and L2 Learners' Intuitions about Word Combinations: Evidence from Italian
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Fioravanti, Irene; Senaldi, Marco Silvio Giuseppe; Lenci, Alessandro; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Second Language Research, 2021
The present investigation focuses on first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' sensitivity to lexical fixedness and compositionality of Italian word combinations. Two studies explored language users' intuitions about three types of word combinations: free combinations, collocations, and idioms. In Study 1, Italian Verb+Noun…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Italian, Phrase Structure
The Iconicity Advantage in Sign Production: The Case of Bimodal Bilinguals
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Pretato, Elena; Peressotti, Francesca; Bertone, Carmela; Navarrete, Eduardo – Second Language Research, 2018
Recent evidence demonstrates that pictures corresponding to iconic signs are named faster than pictures corresponding to non-iconic signs. The present study investigates the locus of the iconicity advantage in hearing bimodal bilinguals. A naming experiment with iconic and non-iconic pictures in Italian Sign Language (LIS) was conducted. Bimodal…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Bilingualism, Italian, Sign Language
The "Promise" of Three Methods of Word Association Analysis to L2 Lexical Research
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Zareva, Alla; Wolter, Brent – Second Language Research, 2012
The present study is an attempt to empirically test and compare the results of three methods of word association (WA) analysis. Two of the methods--namely, associative commonality and nativelikeness, and lexico-syntactic patterns of associative organization--have been traditionally used in both first language (L1) and second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Nouns, Second Language Learning, Familiarity, Native Speakers