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Contemori, Carla; Asiri, Ohood; Perea Irigoyen, Elva Deida – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
We test the interpretation of pronominal forms in L2 speakers of English whose L1 is Spanish. Previous research on learners of nonnull subject languages has shown conflicting results. The aim of the present study is to reconcile previous evidence and shed light on the factors that determine learners' difficulty to interpret pronominal forms in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Difficulty Level, Native Speakers
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Kuswoyo, Heri – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This article looks into the theme--rheme pattern of presidential press conference that can be employed by speakers to organize the text in order to have a texture. Since a message should be conveyed in clause contextually and co-textually. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to analyze and describe the theme-rheme pattern employed in…
Descriptors: Presidents, News Media, Discourse Analysis, Language Patterns
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Fedzechkina, Maryia; Newport, Elissa L.; Jaeger, T. Florian – Cognitive Science, 2017
Across languages of the world, some grammatical patterns have been argued to be more common than expected by chance. These are sometimes referred to as (statistical) "language universals." One such universal is the correlation between constituent order freedom and the presence of a case system in a language. Here, we explore whether this…
Descriptors: Grammar, Diachronic Linguistics, English, Old English
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Thanh, Nguyen Cao – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2015
The fundamental point of this paper is to describe and evaluate some differences between spoken and written grammar in English, and compare some of the points with Vietnamese. This paper illustrates that spoken grammar is less rigid than written grammar. Moreover, it highlights the distinction between speaking and writing in terms of subordination…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Correlation, Grammar
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Cook, Vivian – Modern Language Journal, 2015
These concluding reflections seek to put the articles of this special issue in a broader context. The article begins by looking at the ideas of cognitive linguistics and linguistic relativity that are invoked. It then considers the questions that arise about the relationship between two or more languages in the same mind, the differences between…
Descriptors: Motion, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Grammar
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Frazier, Lyn – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
Native speakers of English regularly hear sentences without overt subjects. Nevertheless, they maintain a [[superscript -]pro] grammar that requires sentences to have an overt subject. It is proposed that listeners of English recognize that speakers reduce predictable material and thus attribute null subjects to this process, rather than changing…
Descriptors: English, Psycholinguistics, Sentence Structure, Grammar
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Lee, Yoonhyoung; Kwon, Youan; Gordon, Peter C. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
Two experiments used eye-tracking during reading to investigate the role of the consistency of the relative markedness alignment of noun phrases (NPs) in the processing of complex sentences in Korean. To do so, the animacy of the first NP was varied in both experiments to manipulate the relative markedness of NPs. In addition, case markings of the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Reading Processes, Nouns
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Aravind, Athulya; Hackl, Martin; Wexler, Ken – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
We present a series of experiments investigating English-speaking children's comprehension of "it"-clefts and "wh"-pseudoclefts. Previous developmental work has found children to have asymmetric difficulties interpreting object clefts. We show that these difficulties disappear when clefts are presented in felicitous contexts,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Pragmatics, English, Language Acquisition
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Romano, Francesco – Second Language Research, 2018
To what extent can second language (L2) speakers acquire a syntactic representation for an L2 structure absent in the first language (L1)? Findings from L2 structural priming studies are in conflict inasmuch as evidence for and against continuity between L1 and L2 sentence production has been shown. Furthermore, previous investigations have not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Chinese, Turkish
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Garraffa, Maria; Di Domenico, Alberto – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
Agreement is a covariation in morphological form that reflects relations between words. A series of experiments were carried out in Italian during production and comprehension where an element interferes with agreement. The likelihood of interference found in both modalities is related to the markedness of the intervener and to its grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Error Patterns, Morphology (Languages)
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Criado, Raquel – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
This article presents a framework for the elaboration of Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) grammar materials for adults based on the application to SLA of Skill Acquisition Theory (SAT). This theory is argued to compensate for the major drawbacks of FLT settings in comparison with second language contexts (lack of classroom learning time and limited…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Kaden, Christiane – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Many languages have processes which lengthen or shorten a vowel or consonant. In this dissertation, I concentrate on Open Syllable Lengthening, Closed Syllable Shortening, Monosyllabic Lengthening and Trochaic Lengthening, and present a formal model which captures these lengthenings and shortening as the insertion, deletion or reassignment of a…
Descriptors: German, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
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Järvikivi, Juhani; van Gompel, Roger P. G.; Hyönä, Jukka – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
Two visual-world eye-tracking experiments investigating pronoun resolution in Finnish examined the time course of implicit causality information relative to both grammatical role and order-of-mention information. Experiment 1 showed an effect of implicit causality that appeared at the same time as the first-mention preference. Furthermore, when we…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Psycholinguistics, Eye Movements, Semantics
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Leal, Tania; Slabakova, Roumyana; Farmer, Thomas A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study investigates the degree to which native-English-speaking learners of Spanish can generate expectations for information likely to occur in upcoming portions of an unfolding linguistic signal. We examine Spanish clitic left dislocation, a long-distance dependency between a topicalized object and an agreeing clitic, whose felicity depends…
Descriptors: English, Native Speakers, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Spino-Seijas, Le Anne L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A pervasive question in second language (L2) research is whether L2 learners can acquire parameterized functional features that are not instantiated in their first language (L1). While some researchers have argued for a representational deficit (e.g., Clahsen & Muysken, 1989; Hawkins & Chan, 1997), claiming that L2 learners' competence is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Grammar
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