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Campbell, Amy Melissa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This thesis offers a systematic treatment of discontinuous exponence, a pattern of inflection in which a single feature or a set of features bundled in syntax is expressed by multiple, distinct morphemes. This pattern is interesting and theoretically relevant because it represents a deviation from the expected one-to-one relationship between…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Surveys, Language Classification
Allison, Sean David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Makary Kotoko (MK), a Central Chadic B language, is spoken in the north of Cameroon just south of Lake Chad. Published works on MK to date include about a dozen articles on different aspects of the grammar of the language, primarily by H. Tourneux. The present work, which is based on a substantial corpus of recorded texts, is a systematic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Morphology (Languages)
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Shin, Naomi Lapidus; Cairns, Helen Smith – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
To investigate the development of the NP selection process, preferences for overt or null Spanish subject pronouns were elicited from 139 children (5;09 to 15;08) and 30 adults in Mexico. Participants were told stories in which consecutive grammatical subjects shared the same referent (same-reference), or did not (switch-reference). In the…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Perspective Taking, Foreign Countries
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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
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Spinner, Patti – Second Language Research, 2011
This review article presents a summary of research on the second language acquisition of Bantu languages, including Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa and Lingala. Although second language (L2) research on these languages is currently very limited, work in morphosyntax and phonology suggests promising directions for future study, particularly on noun class,…
Descriptors: African Languages, Futures (of Society), Phonology, Form Classes (Languages)
Michalkova, Marcela – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The aim of the current study is to reveal asymmetries in the linguistic encoding of male and female persons in Slovak by analyzing ample lexical material from a synchronic perspective. Specifically, I examine a corpus of over 60,000 lemmas, document a sub-corpus of approximately 6,000 personal nouns, devise a taxonomy model of sixteen semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Females, Nouns, Linguistics
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Ellis, Rod – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2012
The author has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator, and second language acquisition (SLA) researcher for over forty years. During this time grammar has figured largely in his thinking, in part because it has traditionally been so central to language pedagogy and in part because he became fascinated with how the human mind grapples with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Autobiographies
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Gutierrez, Xavier – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2012
Implicit and explicit knowledge of the second language (L2) are two central constructs in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in obtaining valid and reliable measures of L2 learners' implicit and explicit knowledge (e.g., Bowles, 2011; R. Ellis, 2005). The purpose of the present study…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Research
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AL-Malki, Eidhah Abdullah; Majid, Norazman Abdul; Omar, Noor Abidah Mohd – English Language Teaching, 2014
According to the Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1999 by Biber et al. (p. 266) generic article uses are more than twice as common in academic English than in conversation or fiction. This is an area that English for Academic Purpose (EPA) textbooks and teachers would need to target more than general English teaching. This paper is…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Indonesian Languages, Grammar, English (Second Language)
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Sato, Masatoshi – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2011
This article investigates a language learner's cognitive ability (i.e., form-orientation) in detecting the corrective nature of non-salient feedback, by reviewing the operationalizations and reported effectiveness of recasts in recent SLA literature. Two directionalities which seem to have resulted in the divergent findings of recast effectiveness…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Interdisciplinary Approach, Cognitive Processes, Second Language Learning
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2011
Language is seen as a system for communicative purposes and as such it involves more than just a structural organization. Indeed this view of language considers different kinds of competence which make communication really meaningful: linguistic, sociolinguistic discourse, and strategic. Linguistic competence is what we usually regard as the basis…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Sociolinguistics, Grammar, Social Environment
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Charkova, Krassimira D.; Halliday, Laura J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study examined how English learners in second-language (SL) and foreign-language (FL) contexts employ tense backshifting in indirect reported speech. Participants included 35 international students in the United States, 37 Bulgarian speakers of English, 38 Bosnian speakers of English, and 41 native English speakers. The instrument involved…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
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Berent, Iris; Harder, Katherine; Lennertz, Tracy – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
Across languages, onsets with large sonority distances are preferred to those with smaller distances (e.g., "bw greater than bd greater than lb"; Greenberg 1978). Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky 2004) attributes such facts to grammatical restrictions that are universally active in all grammars. To test this hypothesis, here we…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Preschool Children, Language Research
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Liu, Dilin – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
Despite a long debate and the accompanying call for changes in the past few decades, grammar instruction in college English classes, according to some scholars, has remained largely "disempowering,""decontextualized," and "remedial" (Micciche, 2004, p. 718). To search for more effective and empowering grammar teaching, this study explores the use…
Descriptors: College English, Language Research, Grammar, Problem Based Learning
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Roberts, Leah; Liszka, Sarah Ann – Second Language Research, 2013
In this article, we report the results of a self-paced reading experiment designed to investigate the question of whether or not advanced French and German learners of English as a second language (L2) are sensitive to tense/aspect mismatches between a fronted temporal adverbial and the inflected verb that follows (e.g. *"Last week, James has…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, French
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