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Rescorla, Leslie; Constants, Holly; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Ochal, Anna – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The objective of this study was to compare vocabulary size and composition in 2-year-olds learning Polish or English as measured by the Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989). Method: Participants were 199 Polish toddlers (M = 24.14 months, SD = 0.35) and 422 U.S. toddlers (M = 24.69 months, SD = 0.78). Results: Test-retest…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Toddlers
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Dlugosz, Kamil – Second Language Research, 2023
Although previous research has observed a facilitative influence of the first language (L1) on the acquisition and processing of gender agreement in a second language (L2), particularly in language pairs with similar gender agreement marking, the question of whether knowledge of two languages with gender can confer an additional advantage for…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Task Analysis, Accuracy
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Ebrahimi, Hourieh; Hosseini, Hamed Mohammad – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
With the increasing attempts to use gender-fair language, different studies have investigated this issue from different viewpoints. To find an epicene pronoun used as a third-person singular, some research has been conducted investigating them in various contexts, yet few studies have focused on cultural differences. Since how to use language…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Form Classes (Languages), Cultural Differences, English (Second Language)
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Lijewska, Agnieszka; Chmiel, Agnieszka – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
Conference interpreters form a special case of language users because the simultaneous interpretation practice requires very specific lexical processing. Word comprehension and production in respective languages is performed under strict time constraints and requires constant activation of the involved languages. The present experiment aimed at…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Processing, Second Languages, Translation
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Hudabiunigg, Ingrid – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
This paper analyses an extensive corpus of texts from the German media and existing studies of German perspectives on Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia in order to demonstrate that there are two idealised culture cognitive models (ICCMs) that function as overarching categories for Europe: the ICCM west (the members of the European…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, German, Schemata (Cognition)