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Sagae, Kenji; Davis, Eric; Lavie, Alon; MacWhinney, Brian; Wintner, Shuly – Journal of Child Language, 2010
Corpora of child language are essential for research in child language acquisition and psycholinguistics. Linguistic annotation of the corpora provides researchers with better means for exploring the development of grammatical constructions and their usage. We describe a project whose goal is to annotate the English section of the CHILDES database…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Berent, Iris; Lennertz, Tracy; Balaban, Evan – Language and Speech, 2012
Certain ill-formed phonological structures are systematically under-represented across languages and misidentified by human listeners. It is currently unclear whether this results from grammatical phonological knowledge that actively recodes ill-formed structures, or from difficulty with their phonetic encoding. To examine this question, we gauge…
Descriptors: Cues, Syllables, Phonetics, Language Universals
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Deroey, Katrien L. B.; Taverniers, Miriam – English for Specific Purposes, 2012
This paper presents a comprehensive overview of lexicogrammatical devices which highlight important or relevant points in lectures. Despite the established usefulness of discourse organizational cues for lecture comprehension and note-taking, very little is known about the marking of relevance in this genre. The current overview of…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Research, Educational Research, Textbooks
Tran, Thu Hoang – Online Submission, 2009
Research in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) has been done to ascertain the effectiveness of visual input enhancement (VIE) on grammar learning. However, one issue remains unexplored: the effects of VIE density on grammar learning. This paper presents a research proposal to investigate the effects of the density of VIE on English…
Descriptors: Language Research, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Instruction
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Applied Linguistics, 2009
It is a good practice to try to understand matters at hand by first stepping back and adopting an historical perspective, which I will begin this review by doing. Next, I will take up the challenges that each of the authors in the articles in this volume has presented for the study of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) in second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Fluency, Grammar, Difficulty Level
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Lyddon, Paul A. – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Many second language acquisition researchers (e.g., Doughty & Williams, 1998; R. Ellis, 2007; Long, 1996, 2007; Lyster, Lightbown, & Spada, 1999; Russell & Spada, 2006) have advocated the use of negative feedback to promote learner noticing of errors and the internalization of correct forms. At the same time, the true efficacy of this practice is…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Grammar, Linguistic Input, French
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Weerman, Fred – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
There is a long linguistic tradition in which language change is explained in terms of first language acquisition. In this tradition, children are considered to be the agents of language change, or at least the agents of changes in the underlying grammar. Since the early 1980s, this has been formulated in the (generative) terminology in terms of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, Old English, Language Acquisition
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Sonbul, Suhad; Schmitt, Norbert – Language Learning, 2013
To date, there has been little empirical research exploring the relationship between implicit and explicit lexical knowledge (of collocations). As a first step in addressing this gap, two laboratory experiments were conducted that evaluate different conditions (enriched, enhanced, and decontextualized) under which both adult native speakers…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Priming
Iverson, Michael Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Language acquisition research frequently concerns itself with linguistic development and result of the acquisition process with respect to a first or subsequent language. For some, it seems tacitly assumed that a first language, once acquired, remains stable, regardless of exposure to and the acquisition of additional language(s) beyond the first…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Validity, Language Research, Spanish
Hoot, Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In Spanish, it is most commonly claimed that constituents in narrow presentational focus appear rightmost, where they also get main stress (1a), while stress in situ (1b) is infelicitous. (1) [Context: Who bought a car?]. a. Compró un carro mi [mamá][subscript F]. bought a car my mom. b. Mi [mamá ][subscript F] compró un carro. However, some…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intonation, Syntax
Hamrouni, Nadia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents experimental research on speech errors in Tunisian Arabic. The nonconcatenative morphology of Arabic shows interesting interactions of phrasal and lexical constraints with morphological structure during language production. The central empirical questions revolve around properties of "exchange errors". These…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
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Rothman, Jason; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Applied Linguistics, 2010
In accord with the general program of researching factors relating to ultimate attainment and maturational constraints in adult language acquisition, this commentary highlights the importance of input differences in amount, type, and setting between naturalistic and classroom learners of an L2. It is suggested that these variables are often…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Linguistic Input, Classroom Environment
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Monaghan, Padraic; Christiansen, Morten H. – Journal of Child Language, 2010
There are numerous models of how speech segmentation may proceed in infants acquiring their first language. We present a framework for considering the relative merits and limitations of these various approaches. We then present a model of speech segmentation that aims to reveal important sources of information for speech segmentation, and to…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Phonology, Models, Infants
Serianni, Barbara; Rethwisch, Carolyn – Online Submission, 2011
This paper is the result of a language analysis research project focused on the Russian Language. The study included a diverse literature review that included published materials as well as online sources in addition to an interview with a native Russian speaker residing in the United States. Areas of study include the origin and history of the…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Russian, Language Research
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Schleppegrell, Mary J. – Language Learning, 2013
Recent currents in language learning research highlight the social and emergent aspects of second language (L2) development and recognize that learners need opportunities for interaction in meaningful contexts supported by explicit attention to language itself. These perspectives suggest new ways of conceptualizing the challenges faced by children…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Role Perception, Academic Discourse, English Language Learners
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