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Tsupa, Yanina – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
Language proficiency is multi-componential in nature and, according to many SLA researchers and L2 practitioners, is best captured by the concepts of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). Two of the three studies reported in this paper adopted the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2003) as the means to address the question of whether increasing…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Proficiency, Accuracy, Schemata (Cognition)
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Bañón, José Alemán; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
We used event-related potentials to investigate how markedness impacts person agreement in English-speaking learners of L2-Spanish. Markedness was examined by probing agreement with both first-person (marked) and third-person (unmarked) subjects. Agreement was manipulated by crossing first-person subjects with third-person verbs and vice versa.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Sabir, Paiman Hama Salih; Jawad, Hoshang Farooq – English Language Teaching, 2019
Discourse Markers are one of an uninvestigated aspect of language in old and modern Kurdish linguistics, that has not been given due attention, neither by native nor non-native researchers. On this ground, it is hoped that the present study sheds light on this almost entirely ignored aspect of the language and this study is meant to be a…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Discourse Analysis, Language Research, Phrase Structure
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Ceberio, Klara; Aduriz, Itziar; Díaz de Ilarraza, Arantza; Garcia-Azkoaga, Ines – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
In this paper we present the coreferential tagging of part of the EPEC Corpus of Basque. Although coreference is a pragmatic linguistic phenomenon highly dependent on the situational context, it shows some language-specific patterns that vary according to the features of each language. Due to the fact that Basque is not an Indo-European language,…
Descriptors: Languages, Pragmatics, Language Patterns, Grammar
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Pearl, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Poverty of the stimulus has been at the heart of ferocious and tear-filled debates at the nexus of psychology, linguistics, and philosophy for decades. This review is intended as a guide for readers without a formal linguistics or philosophy background, focusing on what poverty of the stimulus is and how it's been interpreted, which is…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Syntax, Semantics
Siqi Ning – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language can alter our mental conceptions of space, time, and categories. While there is compelling evidence that thought can be shaped by syntactic, morphological, and lexical features of a language, less is known about the impact of phonology on thought. This dissertation uses novel objects (alien cartoon figures) and pseudoword names in three…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Phonology, Color
Rubio Vallejo, David – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The interaction between root (i.e. non-epistemic) modal verbs and functional heads like tense and aspect has been investigated in a wealth of recent literature, particularly in the context of counterfactual conditionals (Iatridou, 2000; Arregui, 2009; a.o.) and actuality entailments (Bhatt, 1999; Hacquard, 2006). In this work, I continue this…
Descriptors: Verbs, Spanish, French, Morphemes
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Morgan-Short, Kara; Marsden, Emma; Heil, Jeanne; Issa, Bernard I., II.; Leow, Ronald P.; Mikhaylova, Anna; Mikolajczak, Sylwia; Moreno, Nina; Slabakova, Roumyana; Szudarski, Pawel – Language Learning, 2018
We conducted a multisite replication study with aspects of preregistration in order to explore the feasibility of such an approach in second language (L2) research. To this end, we addressed open questions in a line of research that has examined whether having learners attend to form while reading or listening to a L2 passage interferes with…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension
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Leonetti, Manuel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This paper argues against the assumption that Spanish--and more generally Romance--imperfective past (IMP) is an intrinsically anaphoric tense. It is a widely accepted view that IMP requires a temporal discourse antecedent to be licensed. My aim is to show that such requirement is not actually in force when IMP combines with a stative/atelic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Spanish, Sentence Structure
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Saldana, Carmen; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon; Culbertson, Jennifer – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Languages exhibit variation at all linguistic levels, from phonology, to the lexicon, to syntax. Importantly, that variation tends to be (at least partially) conditioned on some aspect of the social or linguistic context. When variation is unconditioned, language learners regularize it -- removing some or all variants, or conditioning variant use…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Comparative Analysis, Language Variation
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Garcia-Amaya, Lorenzo; Cintron-Valentin, Myrna C. – Modern Language Journal, 2021
As second language (L2) research adapts to the dynamics of multimodal instruction, researchers are exploring the role of captioning and textual enhancement (TE) on learner development. The present experiment assesses the differential effects of textually enhanced captions on learners' elicited imitation of L2 Spanish grammar. Twenty-eight…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
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Cintrón-Valentín, Myrna C.; García-Amaya, Lorenzo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
To probe the limits of attention raising through form-focused instruction, second-language research must adapt to the needs of a technologically driven learning environment. In this study, we used a randomized control design to investigate the effect of captioned media on the learning of vocabulary and grammar in L2 Spanish (n = 369 learners).…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Sok, Sarah; Kang, Eun Young; Han, ZhaoHong – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article offers a methodological synthesis spanning 35 years of instructed second language acquisition research on the efficacy of form-focused instruction. Eighty-eight (quasi-) experimental studies were sampled from six academic journals: "Applied Linguistics," "Language Learning," "Language Teaching Research,"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar
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Belletti, Adriana; Manetti, Claudia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left Dislocation (ClLD) structures. Since the discourse conditions of the experiments are felicitous for the production of passives as well, we also investigated children's…
Descriptors: Italian, Preschool Children, Phrase Structure, Discourse Analysis
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Dye, Cristina; Kedar, Yarden; Lust, Barbara – First Language, 2019
Scholars of language development have long been challenged to understand the development of functional categories. Traditionally, it was assumed that children's language development initially relies on lexical elements, while functional elements become accessible only at later periods; and that it is lexical growth which bootstraps grammatical…
Descriptors: Child Language, Nouns, Verbs, Form Classes (Languages)
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