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Gareth P. Morgan; M. Adelaida Restrepo; Alejandra Auza – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study compares Spanish morphosyntax error types and magnitude in monolingual Spanish and Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and language impairment (LI). Performance across groups was compared using cloze tasks that targeted articles, clitics, subjunctives, and derivational morphemes in 57 children.…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Spanish, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning
Chan, Ho Leung – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a language processing perspective on the study of second language acquisition (SLA) of tense and aspect. Of special interest are the universal vis-a-vis language-specific dimensions of temporal and aspectual semantics involved. According to the Aspect Hypothesis (AH, e.g. Andersen & Shirai, 1994), the initial…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Gunnarsson, Cecilia – Language Learning & Language Teaching (MS), 2012
The present longitudinal case study investigated the development of fluency, complexity and accuracy--and the possible relationships between them--in the written production of L2 French. We assessed fluency and complexity in five intermediate learners by means of conventional indicators for written L2 (cf. Wolfe-Quintero et al. 1998), while…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, French, Language Fluency
Grapho-Morphological Awareness in Spanish L2 Reading: How Do Learners Use This Metalinguistic Skill?
Miguel, Nausica Marcos – Language Awareness, 2012
This paper contributes to the literature on the transferability of grapho-morphological awareness (GMA) for second language (L2) learners by analysing L2 learners' knowledge of morphology in reading. GMA helps readers to identify grammatical categories, infer meanings of unfamiliar words, and access stored lexical information. Previous research…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Morphemes, Written Language, Reading Processes
Does Reading in Shallow L1 Orthography Slow Attrition of Language-Specific Morphological Structures?
Zaretsky, Elena; Bar-Shalom, Eva G. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
This study looks at the relationship between L1 (Russian) attrition and L1 reading ability in Russian-English-speaking bilingual children. Ten Russian-English bilingual children and 10 adults participated in this study. Nine out of 10 children participants were born in the US and used L1 as their primary language of interaction within the family,…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Russian, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Gabriele, Alison; McClure, William – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
The study investigates whether advanced second language (L2) learners can extend beyond the grammatical properties of the first language (L1) to successfully acquire tense and aspect. We examine the acquisition of the semantics of the imperfective marker "te-iru" in Japanese by native speakers of Mandarin Chinese, a language that…
Descriptors: Semantics, Mandarin Chinese, Native Speakers, Japanese
Cuza, Alejandro – Hispania, 2010
This study examines the potential native language (L1) attrition of the ongoing value of the Spanish present tense among long-term Spanish immigrants. Based on the assumption of second-language (L2) transfer and proposals on the permeability of interface-conditioned structures, it is hypothesized that long-term Spanish immigrants will show…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Immigrants, Native Language
Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers
Charters, Helen; Dao, Loan; Jansen, Louise – Second Language Research, 2011
This article identifies empirical evidence (Dao, 2007; in preparation) conflicting with Processability Theory's (PT) prediction that in acquisition of English as a second language (ESL), plural-marking emerges first in bare nouns and only later in numeric expressions. Specifically, it presents results from Dao's (2007) cross-sectional study of ESL…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
Montrul, Silvina; Perpinan, Silvia – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
The acquisition of the aspectual difference between the preterit and imperfect in the past tense and the acquisition of the contrast between subjunctive and indicative mood are classic problem areas in second language (L2) acquisition of Spanish by English-speaking learners (Collentine, 1995, 1998, 2003; Salaberry, 1999; Slabakova & Montrul, 2002;…
Descriptors: Phonology, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Spanish
Szupica-Pyrzanowski, Malgorzata – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Failure to supply inflection is common in adult L2 learners of English and agrammatic aphasics (AAs), who are known to resort to bare verb forms. Among attempts to explain the absence of inflection are competing morphological and phonological explanations. In the L2 acquisition literature, omission of inflection is explained in terms of: mapping…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Verbs, Morphemes
Schenck, Andrew – Online Submission, 2010
Research suggests that characteristics of EFL input cause morphosyntactic features to be acquired in an order dissimilar to that found in ESL contexts. To determine whether acquisition order for Korean learners could be explained by characteristics of their EFL input, a Korean elementary school curriculum was analyzed. Morphosyntactic features…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Barnes, Hilary – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation project examines the language contact situation of Chipilo, a Veneto-Spanish bilingual community of immigrant origin in central Mexico, focusing both on the social motivations for the sustained bilingualism observed and the linguistic outcomes in the Spanish of the community. Chipilo is a unique community in that Veneto, a…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Ethnicity, Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics
Patricio, Sancho Da Costa – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
English plays an important role for the life of the people of East Timor. So it is studied from secondary to tertiary schools. However, the resources of English are not sufficiently available. Under the development concerns the conditions that are faced by both the educator and learners in English as a foreign language course at the university.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Action Research, Morphemes, Multilingualism
Martinovic-Zic, Aida – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study introduces a typological model of the "conceptual language-specific approach" to the L2 research on the acquisition of tense-aspect. The model is based on the typological notion of prominence, classifying languages into tense-prominent and aspect-prominent (Bhat 1999) and the L1 research proposal that language-specific…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Native Language