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Arnon, Inbal – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The study of language acquisition has a long and contentious history: researchers disagree on what drives this process, the relevant data, and the interesting questions. Here, I outline the Starting Big approach to language learning, which emphasizes the role of multiword units in language, and of coarse-to-fine processes in learning. I outline…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Learning Processes, Semantics
Paul Vincent Fusella – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The phenomenon in psycholinguistics known as structural priming happens, during language comprehension, when a prime sentence facilitates the processing speed of a target sentence, when both bear the same syntactic structure. In the present study, two specific passive constructions were investigated, the agentive "by"-phrase and the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Eye Movements, Psycholinguistics, Priming
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Kubik, Veit; Jemstedt, Andreas; Eshratabadi, Hassan Mahjub; Schwartz, Bennett L.; Jönsson, Fredrik U. – Metacognition and Learning, 2022
When making memory predictions (judgments of learning; JOLs), people typically underestimate the recall gain across multiple study-test cycles, termed the underconfidence-with-practice (UWP) effect. This is usually studied with verbal materials, but little is known about how people repeatedly learn and monitor their own actions and to what extent…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Prediction, Decision Making, Phrase Structure
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Wu, Yinyin – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Phrasal verbs (PVs), comprising a lexical verb and an adverbial particle, are a notoriously difficult category of multiword units even for advanced learners of English because of their syntactic peculiarity and semantic complexity. Non-native professional interpreters have also been found to use PVs much less often than their native counterparts…
Descriptors: Verbs, Form Classes (Languages), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Xu, Runze; Wijitsopon, Raksangob – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Hollywood blockbuster films have long attracted not only mass audiences but also scholarly attention. In line with contemporary applied linguistics interests in telecinematic discourse, the present study draws upon concepts and techniques in corpus linguistics to describe the language of American mainstream film scripts. The concept of lexical…
Descriptors: Films, Applied Linguistics, Scripts, Phrase Structure
Chen Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Construction Grammar has been a prominent framework in linguistic research for nearly three decades, attracting scholars from various disciplines, including language acquisition, corpus linguistics, and psycholinguistics. While considerable progress has been made in understanding the first language (L1) construction learning of various languages,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Morphemes, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning
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Peters, Elke; Puimège, Eva; Szudarski, Pawel – Language Learning, 2023
This multisite study replicates Webb, Newton, and Chang's (2013) study on the effect of repetition on incidental learning of multiword units (MWUs). Even though more researchers have started to investigate MWUs, most data have been collected from university students. Furthermore, the large effect of MWU repetition on learning reported by Webb…
Descriptors: Repetition, Incidental Learning, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development
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Maxim, Hiram H. – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Competent L2 writing has been described in research in terms of an increasing incidence, variety, and length of clauses; a countervailing compactness and tightness with reduced number of clauses even as clause length expands; and various interrelationships between syntactic realizations of texts and the genres they represent. These partly…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2023
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2023) upgrades ED619049 (ERIC) and finishes its work. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English--to include the language of "inclusion & exclusion" and "contempo-speak"--along with its…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2025
"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure
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Zhiliang Yue; Sugunya Ruangjaroon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to provide a comprehensive profile of collocational competence, a key component of one's overall linguistic competence. For the maximum of ecological validity, we elicited naturalistic oral/written production data from 84 Chinese intermediate EFL learners and performed a 2×2 fashion of analysis on their performance in each of the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Virginia Valian – Language Learning and Development, 2024
The first stage of combinatorial speech is better described as variable than uniform. Talk of variants obscures two different aspects of language (knowledge and use) and two different aspects of language development -- acquisition of the grammar (competence) and deployment of the grammar in speaking and listening (performance). Null subjects and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Grammar
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Boyd H. Davis; Meredith Troutman-Jordan; Margaret Maclagan – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: This study reports on new contexts in which formulaic language has been used in the years since 2013 when the last synthesis was carried out. The background presents an old but still useful definition and lists themes under which research was arranged in 2013 and which continue to be used. Aims: This study has a particular emphasis on…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Variation, Computational Linguistics, Pragmatics
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Raiane Borges; Fiona Lyddy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Bilingualism is associated with a number of false beliefs, myths and misconceptions, which carry implications for bilingual education and policymaking. While the language used, often in the media, to express such misconceptions may have become more subtle, a negative bias remains and is arguably more difficult to detect and defend against. The…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Misconceptions, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education
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Fariba Foroutan Far; Mahboubeh Taghizadeh – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated the effects of digital and non-digital gamification on EFL learners' learning collocations, satisfaction, perceptions, and sense of flow. The participants divided into three groups of digitally gamified, non-digitally gamified, and non-gamified classes were 75 Iranian EFL students at B1 level. In each class, students were…
Descriptors: Gamification, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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