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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
Grammatical Gender in Adult L2 Acquisition: Relations between Lexical and Syntactic Variability
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Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2013
In order to identify the causes of inflectional variability in adult second-language (L2) acquisition, this study investigates lexical and syntactic aspects of gender processing in real-time L2 production and comprehension. Twenty advanced to near-native adult first language (L1) English speakers of L2 German and 20 native controls were tested in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Nouns, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
Connectionism and French Gender Attribution: Sokolik and Smith Re-Visited.
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Matthews, Clive A. – Second Language Research, 1999
Examines claims made by Sokolik and Smith (1992) about a connectionist model of acquisition of French gender attribution by reference to various results gained through a number of extensions to their network model. These results suggest a degree of caution in accepting Sokolik and Smith's conclusions.(Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, French, Language Research, Models