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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
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Heine, Bernd; Miyashita, Hiroyuki – Language Sciences, 2008
In many languages there are words that behave like lexical verbs and on the one hand and like functional categories expressing distinctions of tense, aspect, modality, etc. on the other. The grammatical status of such words is frequently controversial; while some authors treat them as belonging to one and the same grammatical category, others…
Descriptors: Grammar, German, Verbs, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Hyams, Nina – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
First written in 1986, prior to the many findings concerning the optionality of finiteness and the root infinitive phenomenon, this article attempts to extend the parameter-setting model of grammatical development to the acquisition of inflectional morphology. I propose that the Stem Parameter, which states that a stem is/is not a well-formed word…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages)
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Kazanina, Nina; Dukova-Zheleva, Galina; Geber, Dana; Kharlamov, Viktor; Tonciulescu, Keren – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
The study reports the results of a masked priming experiment with morphologically complex Russian nouns. Participants performed a lexical decision task to a visual target that differed from its prime in one consonant. Three conditions were included: (1) "transparent," in which the prime was morphologically related to the target and contained the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Morphemes, Russian
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Meunier, Fanny; Seigneuric, Alix; Spinelli, Elsa – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
In three experiments we explored the mental representation of morphologically complex words in French. Subjects were asked to perform a gender decision task on morphologically complex words that were of the same gender as their base or not. We found that gender decisions were made more slowly for morphologically complex words made from a base with…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphemes, Decision Making, Cognitive Processes
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Gordon, Peter; Miozzo, Michele – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Arguments concerning the relative role of semantic and grammatical factors in word formation have proven to be a wedge issue in current debates over the nature of linguistic representation and processing. In the present paper, we re-examine claims by Ramscar [Ramscar, M. (2002). The role of meaning in inflection: Why the past tense does not…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar
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Pawlowska, Monika; Leonard, Laurence B.; Camarata, Stephen M.; Brown, Barbara; Camarata, Mary N. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
The aim of this study was to uncover factors accounting for the ability of children with specific language impairment (SLI) to learn agreement morphemes in intervention. Twenty-five children with SLI who participated in a six-month intervention program focused on teaching third person singular -s or auxiliary "is"/"are"/"was" showed a wide range…
Descriptors: Intervention, Verbs, Nouns, Morphemes
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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
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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
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Stoll, Sabine; Gries, Stefan Th. – Journal of Child Language, 2009
In this paper we propose a method for characterizing development in large longitudinal corpora. The method has the following three features: (i) it suggests how to represent development without assuming predefined stages; (ii) it includes caregiver speech/child-directed speech; (iii) it uses statistical association measures for investigating…
Descriptors: Association Measures, Computational Linguistics, Longitudinal Studies, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Neubauer, Kathleen; Clahsen, Harald – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
German participles offer a distinction between regular forms that are suffixed with -t and do not exhibit any stem changes and irregular forms that all have the ending -n and sometimes undergo (largely unpredictable) stem changes. This article reports the results from a series of psycholinguistic experiments (acceptability judgments, lexical…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, German, Native Speakers
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Fazeli, Fatemeh; Shokrpour, Nasrin – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2012
Complement constructions vary significantly in English and Persian. There are more complementation structures in English than in Persian and a complement structure in Persian might have more than one equivalent in English. Producing complement structures (CSs) in English is very difficult for native speakers of Persian, especially in an EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
Reed, Deborah K. – Center on Instruction, 2012
This resource is a compilation of three documents that support the teaching of spelling in today's schools: a discussion of "Why Spelling Instruction Matters", a checklist for evaluating a spelling program, and tables of Common Core State Standards that are linked to spelling instruction. "Why Spelling Instruction Matters"…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Spelling, State Standards, Reading Ability
Sorenson, Travis Doug – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study documents and accounts for maintenance and change in dialectal features of Salvadoran Spanish in the United States, especially "voseo", as opposed to "tuteo", terms signifying the use of the second person singular familiar pronouns vos and tu , with their corresponding verb forms. It compares two distinct Salvadoran…
Descriptors: Speech, Home Visits, Morphemes, Spanish Speaking
Tattersall, Patricia J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The central purpose of this three-paper dissertation was to explore the ability of school-age children with and without language-learning disabilities (LLD) to apply sound/word level structure knowledge when performing speaking, spelling, and reading tasks. Data came from a larger investigation that used stratified sampling to create two ability…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Age, Spelling, Intervention
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