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Bird, Steve – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
A longitudinal study compared the effects of distributed and massed practice schedules on the learning of second language English syntax. Participants were taught distinctions in the tense and aspect systems of English at short and long practice intervals. They were then tested at short and long intervals. The results showed that distributed…
Descriptors: Intervals, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Longitudinal Studies
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McDonald, Janet L.; Roussel, Cristine C. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This paper explores whether the poor mastery of morphosyntax exhibited by second language (L2) learners can be tied to difficulties with non-syntactic processing. Specifically, we examine whether problems with English regular and irregular past tense are related to poor L2 phonological ability and lexical access, respectively. In Experiment 1, L2…
Descriptors: Phonology, Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar
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Gavarro, Anna; Torrens, Vicenc; Wexler, Ken – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2010
The literature generally assumes that object clitic omission is equally allowed in all child languages. In this paper we challenge this claim by means of an elicitation experiment carried out with children acquiring two closely related languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our results show that while omission is high in young Catalan-speaking children,…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Grammar, Spanish, Child Language
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Murphy, Victoria A.; Hayes, Jennifer – Language Learning, 2010
Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., "rat-eater" not "rats-eater") while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., "mice-eater") (Clahsen, 1995; Gordon, 1985; Hayes, Smith & Murphy, 2005; Lardiere, 1995; Murphy, 2000). Exposure to the input alone has…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
Anderson, Michael Don – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation examines Ilocano, an Austronesian Filipino language, within the Minimalist Framework, in an effort to tease apart the general syntactic properties of the language. I show that Ilocano underlying structure can easily be captured within the standard syntactic structures proposed for languages generally (Universal Grammar). In my…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Morphemes, Malayo Polynesian Languages
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Dugua, Celine; Spinelli, Elsa; Chevrot, Jean-Pierre; Fayol, Michel – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
This study investigates whether children's production and recognition of obligatory liaison sequences in French depend on the singular/plural orientation of nouns. Certain nouns occur more frequently in the plural (e.g., "arbre" "tree"), whereas others are found more often in the singular (e.g., "arc-en-ciel" "rainbow"). In the input, children…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Sentence Structure, Nouns, Probability
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Demuth, Katherine; Machobane, Malillo; Moloi, Francina – Language, 2009
Noun-class prefixes are obligatory in most Bantu languages. However, the Sotho languages (Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi) permit a subset of prefixes to be realized as null at the intersection of "unmarked" phonological, syntactic, and discourse conditions. This raises the question of how and when the licensing of null prefixes is learned. Using…
Descriptors: Nouns, Language Acquisition, African Languages, Morphemes
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Wolter, Julie A.; Wood, Alexis; D'zatko, Kim W. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this study was twofold. First, we investigated whether first-grade children evidenced morphological awareness and whether they used their knowledge of morphological relations to guide their spelling. Second, we sought to determine whether children's morphological awareness abilities were predictive of their performance on…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphemes, Literacy, Grade 1
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Demuth, Katherine; McCullough, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Researchers have long been puzzled by children's variable omission of grammatical morphemes, often attributing this to a lack of semantic or syntactic competence. Recent studies suggest that some of this variability may be due to phonological constraints. This paper explored this issue further by conducting a longitudinal study of five…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, English, Form Classes (Languages)
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Dikker, Suzanne; Rabagliati, Hugh; Pylkkanen, Liina – Cognition, 2009
One of the most intriguing findings on language comprehension is that violations of syntactic predictions can affect event-related potentials as early as 120 ms, in the same time-window as early sensory processing. This effect, the so-called early left-anterior negativity (ELAN), has been argued to reflect word category access and initial…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Cues, Syntax
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Winskel, Heather; Luksaneeyanawin, Sudaporn – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar, Thai
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Taylor, Nicole; Donovan, Wilberta; Miles, Sally; Leavitt, Lewis – Journal of Child Language, 2009
The present study determined whether parenting style, defined by control strategies varying in power-assertion mediated the established relation between maternal language usage (grammar and semantics) and child language (grammar, semantics and pragmatics) during toddlerhood (n = 60). Based upon their use of control strategies mothers were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Toddlers, Language Usage, Child Language
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Wakabayashi, Shigenori – Second Language Research, 2009
Lardiere suggests that second language acquisition (SLA) researchers should pay more attention to the distribution of a given feature in source and target languages, using the distribution of [plural] in English, Chinese and Korean to illustrate. I argue that the distribution of [definite] in English shows a similar complexity, and that this has…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Morphemes, English
Schierloh, Maren – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In this study I examine the noticing of verbs with stem vowel changes by beginning adult learners of L2 German who have not been formally introduced to this linguistic feature. Two research questions (RQs) guided the experimental design and the empirical analyses in this study: (1) Do adult beginning learners of German who are unfamiliar with…
Descriptors: Sentences, Vowels, Verbs, Eye Movements
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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
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