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Levesque, Kyle C.; Breadmore, Helen L.; Deacon, S. Hélène – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
A defining feature of language lies in its capacity to represent meaning across oral and written forms. Morphemes, the smallest units of meaning in a language, are the fundamental building blocks that encode meaning, and morphological skills enable their effective use in oral and written language. Increasing evidence indicates that morphological…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Spelling, Reading Processes
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Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin; Khamis-Jubran, Maram – Journal of Child Language, 2021
This study investigated the acquisition of word-patterns and roots in the nominal system of the spoken language of Palestinian Arabic (PA) and its distance from Standard Arabic (StA). It described, analyzed, and quantified the nominal system (roots and word-patterns) as reflected in the language corpus of Palestinian-Arab kindergarteners 3 to 6…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Morphology (Languages)
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Thakur, Vijay Singh; Sulaiman, Moosa Ahmed Ali; Elahi, Ehsan – English Language Teaching, 2021
As far as the main purpose of teaching and learning of the Grammar of a language is concerned, it should tell the teachers and learners the principles and parameters of sentence construction in the given language, i.e. English Language in the context of the discussion in this paper. Incidentally, the grammatical device of tense becomes more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Morphemes, Grammar, English
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Kim, Yun Jung; Sundara, Megha – Developmental Science, 2021
Each language has its unique way to mark grammatical information such as gender, number and tense. For example, English marks number and tense/aspect information with morphological suffixes (e.g., -"s" or -"ed"). These morphological suffixes are crucial for language acquisition as they are the basic building blocks of syntax,…
Descriptors: Infants, Morphemes, Grammar, English
Allard, Danièle; Mizoguchi, Riichiro – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2021
This article introduces a novel, holistic framework--named Dr. Mosaik--that encompasses explanations of the entire tense-aspect system, while highlighting eight comprehensive rules that explain the main workings of the system. In turn, this provides a limited number of "anchor points" on which to time-efficiently address instruction and…
Descriptors: Intensive Language Courses, English, Morphemes, Form Classes (Languages)
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Brittain, Julie; Rose, Yvan – First Language, 2021
This study is based on naturalistic speech samples produced by one child learning Cree as her first language (2;01-4;03) and presents the first investigation into the development of preverbs in the language. Preverbs are an optional class of morpheme which precede the lexical verb stem, dividing into grammatical, lexical and directional (deictic)…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Morphemes
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Silué, Djibril Nanourgo; Koné, Antoine Kiyofon – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This paper takes issue with the view of conceptual structures as autonomous syntactic structures generated by syntactic formation rules. Instead, it adopts the position developed by Croft and Cruse (2004), in showing that linguistic knowledge -- knowledge of meaning and form -- is basically conceptual structure. In fact the, fundamental problem…
Descriptors: Grammar, Morphemes, Syntax, Nouns
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Potratz, Jill R. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Mean length of utterance (MLU) is one of the most widely reported measures of syntactic development in the developmental literature, but its responsiveness in young school-age children's language has been questioned, and it has been shown to correlate with nonsyntactic measures. This study tested the extent to which MLU shows measurement…
Descriptors: Measurement, Speech, Speech Impairments, Language Impairments
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Garden, Pearl Dean – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2022
Some children come to school with a smaller vocabulary than their peers. If children do not have knowledge of the meaning of the words they read in texts, they will fail to comprehend those texts and struggle to keep up with their peers. This is critical because the link between vocabulary and comprehension is very clear (Sticht et al., 1974, as…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Literacy Education, Primary Education
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Comajoan-Colomé, Llorenç – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in "SSLA" marked the coming of age of the study of temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on tense and aspect the next year. This article presents a state-of-the-scholarship review of the last 20 years of research addressing the aspect hypothesis (AH)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Morphology (Languages), Hypothesis Testing
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Seydi, Muberra – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
Existential negation is the one type of negation present in languages, which its item is called "negative existential", and it provides to tell the case of "absence", "lack", "there is not", "poor", "empty", "dead" etc. Negative existentials are generally used for the common…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Turkish, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Davies, Benjamin; Rattanasone, Nan Xu; Davies, Aleisha; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Normal-hearing (NH) children acquire plural morphemes at different rates, with the segmental allomorphs /-s, -z/ (e.g., cat-s) being acquired before the syllabic allomorph /-[schwa]z/ (e.g., bus-es). Children with hearing loss (HL) have been reported to show delays in the production of plural morphology, raising the possibility that this…
Descriptors: Young Children, Hearing Impairments, Morphemes, Comprehension
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Davies, Benjamin; Xu Rattansone, Nan; Demuth, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Subject-verb (SV) agreement helps listeners interpret the number condition of ambiguous nouns ("The sheep is/are fat"), yet it remains unclear whether young children use agreement to comprehend newly encountered nouns. Preschoolers and adults completed a forced choice task where sentences contained singular vs. plural copulas…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Verbs, Nouns, Grammar
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Colton Seaman; Leticia Rincón Herce; Aaron Yamada – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent studies in the second language acquisition of negation have focused on polarity items and their licensing contexts. Although several studies show a correlation between higher degrees of second language (L2) proficiency and the acquisition of the target L2 structures, less attention has been given to the relation between the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation
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Jinglei Ren; Min Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Derivational suffixes are known to play a crucial role in assigning stress to multi-syllabic words among native English speakers. However, it is unclear whether second language (L2) learners of English can effectively use derivational suffixes as stress cues in written words. To address this gap, we studied if native Chinese-speaking adults…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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