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Bartolotti, James; Marian, Viorica – Language Learning, 2017
Learning a new language involves substantial vocabulary acquisition. Learners can accelerate this process by relying on words with native-language overlap, such as cognates. For bilingual third language learners, it is necessary to determine how their two existing languages interact during novel language learning. A scaffolding account predicts…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingual Education, Adults, Vocabulary Development
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Ellis, Nick C. – Language Learning, 2009
This article presents an analysis of interactions in the usage, structure, cognition, coadaptation of conversational partners, and emergence of linguistic constructions. It focuses on second language development of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL, verb locative; VOL, verb object locative; VOO, ditransitive) with particular reference…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Statistical Distributions