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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Nehls-Lowe, Abigail; Lee, Daemion – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to examine the development of past tense counterfactual (PTCF) sentences ("If the dog had stayed in the house, he would not have bitten the police officer") in young adolescents and young adults, addressing both production and comprehension. The goal was to determine if growth occurs during…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Young Adults, Early Adolescents, Language Acquisition
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Gray, James W.; Smithers, Ryan W. – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2019
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is well known for providing authentic opportunities for second and foreign language (L2) skill development. However, for many learners the use of traditional grammar within TBLT lacks the functional support necessary to create accurate and fluent L2 output. The current study replaced traditional grammar…
Descriptors: Semantics, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hernandez, Hjalmar Punla; Genuino, Cecilia F. – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
Grammatical compression and implicitness have been proven as characteristics of academic writing (Biber & Gray, 2010, 2016), but they are an underexplored area of research particularly in academic ESL (English as a second language) writing. In this study, we explored the dependent phrases that most and least characterize academic ESL writing…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
Alyssa Vuogan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language (L2) writing has been determined to be influenced by what is read, with language learners tending to borrow words and short phrases from input texts while writing (e.g., Wang & Wang, 2015). This phenomenon is referred to as lexical alignment. Only one empirical study has investigated the influence that the linguistic complexity…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
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Dalamu, Taofeek – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
Institutions are known through the names-cum-titles shown on their signboards, internet websites, letterheads, etc. However, it seems that such cultures could not satisfy the yearning of most organizations. So, they further propagate their core values and traits by constructing short linguistic bursts-cum-contents that can expatiate on what the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Advertising, Signs, Organizations (Groups)
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Lemhöfer, Kristin; Schriefers, Herbert; Indefrey, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
In 3 ERP experiments, we investigated how experienced L2 speakers process natural and correct syntactic input that deviates from their own, sometimes incorrect, syntactic representations. Our previous study (Lemhöfer, Schriefers, & Indefrey, 2014) had shown that L2 speakers do engage in native-like syntactic processing of gender agreement but…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning
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Koukoulioti, Vasiliki; Stavrakaki, Stavroula; Konstantinopoulou, Eleni; Ioannidis, Panagiotis – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Language production in semantic dementia (SD) is characterized by a lexical-semantic deficit and largely preserved argument structure and inflection production. This study investigates (a) the effect of argument structure on verb retrieval and (b) the interrelation between inflection marking and verb retrieval in SD. Method: Seven…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Video Technology, Greek
Amenorvi, Cosmas Rai – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the Ewe language realizes cohesion by means of conjunctions in comparison with English as well as the similarities and differences in the way the two languages realize cohesion in this regard. The findings revealed that both English and Ewe realize cohesion by conjunction almost the same way. The…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), African Languages, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
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Mai, Ziyin – Second Language Research, 2016
Two recent books (Jiang, 2014, "Advances in Chinese as a second language"; Wang, 2013, "Grammatical development of Chinese among non-native speakers") provide new resources for exploring the role of processing in acquiring Chinese as a second language (L2). This review article summarizes, assesses and compares some of the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Yuvayapan, Fatma; Yükselir, Ceyhun – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
Aside from learning the basic and common grammatical structures, English as foreign language learners ("hereafter EFL") have to be familiar with a wide range of lexical chunks called collocations. Being sensitive to collocations is the key of attaining a native-like fluency in English. The aim of this study is twofold: to explore the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Boonraksa, Thidakul; Naisena, Suparvadee – English Language Teaching, 2022
Collocation is an often-neglected language form that foreign language teachers and students should focus on to achieve competence in a target language. In this research, the researchers studied purposely to facilitate both second language teachers and students to produce correct and appropriate collocations. The purposes of this research were 1)…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Harun, Mohammad – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Research on agrammatism has revealed that the nature of linguistic impairment is systematic and interpretable. Non-canonical sentences are more impaired than those of canonical sentences. Previous studies on Japanese (Hiroshi et al. 2004; Chujo 1983; Tamaoka et al. 2003; Nakayama 1995) report that aphasic patients take longer Response Time (RT)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, German, Japanese, Indo European Languages
Lan, Ge – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Since the 1990s, grammatical complexity is a topic that has received considerable attention in various fields of applied linguistics, such as English for academic purposes, second language acquisition, language testing, and second language writing (Bulte & Housen, 2012). Many scholars in applied linguistics have recently argued that…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ninio, Anat – First Language, 2018
Many sentences of adult English are analytic constructions, namely clauses with a matrix verb complemented by a dependent predicate that does not have an expressed syntactic subject. Examples are subject and object control, raising to subject or object, periphrastic tense, aspect and modality, copular predication and "do"-support. In…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, English, Phrase Structure
Manlove, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this dissertation I set out to solve a series of puzzles related to the notion of a DP periphery, defined as an area around the edge of a given domain targeted by operations such as movement and agreement. In solving these puzzles, I argue for a peripheral area in the nominal domain. Early arguments for a peripheral boundary in the nominal…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Puzzles
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