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Chen, Tsung-Ying – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2020
In two artificial grammar learning experiments, we tested the learnability of tonal phonotactics forbidding non-domain-final rising tones (*NonFinalR) against the phonotactics banning non-domain-final high-level tones (*NonFinalH). We propose that a firm phonetic ground drives a presumably innate inductive bias favoring *NonFinalR and against…
Descriptors: Grammar, Artificial Languages, Intonation, Phonology
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Marsden, Emma; Chen, Hsin-Ying – Language Learning, 2011
This study aimed to isolate the effects of the two input activities in Processing Instruction: referential activities, which force learners to focus on a form and its meaning, and affective activities, which contain exemplars of the target form and require learners to process sentence meaning. One hundred and twenty 12-year-old Taiwanese learners…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Children, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Lee, Wei-Teh – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem: Many previous studies have pointed out that EFL learners tend to face communication breakdowns with native speakers because their traditional classroom and textbooks are not able to provide learners with sufficient pragmatically appropriate input (Bardovi-Harlig, 1996; Rose, 1994, 1997). On the contrary, they are exposed to rich input…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sociolinguistics, Textbooks, Grammar