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Dimitrios Ntelitheos; Marta Szreder – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
We provide an account of the developmental trajectory of Emirati Arabic negation particles. We treat the non-verbal predicate negator (NVPN) "mub" as a negative copula, in contrast to the verbal predicate negator (VPN) "maa," which encodes sentential negation in verbal and existential contexts. The analysis is supported by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Morphemes
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M. M. Elsherif; J. C. Catling – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: Adults recognize words that are acquired during childhood more quickly than words acquired during adulthood. This is known as the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effect. The AoA effect, according to the integrated account, manifests in tasks necessitating greater semantic processing and in tasks with arbitrary input-output mapping. Compound…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Word Recognition, Linguistic Input, Reading Processes
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Szreder, Marta; de Ruiter, Laura E.; Ntelitheos, Dimitrios – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This study investigates the acquisition of the Imperfective verb inflection paradigm in Emirati Arabic (EA), to determine whether the learning process is sensitive to the phonological and typological properties of the input. We collected data from 48 participants aged 2;7 to 5;9 years, using an elicited production paradigm. Input frequencies of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semitic Languages, Accuracy, Foreign Countries
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Alam, Florencia; Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Garber, Leandro; Stein, Alejandra – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The study adopts a naturalistic perspective, looking at the relationship between socio-economic status (SES), activities and variation sets in child-directed speech (CDS) to Spanish-speaking Argentinian toddlers. It aims to determine the effect of SES and type of activity on the proportion of words and utterances in variation sets and on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Toddlers, Speech Communication
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Sakol Suethanapornkul; Sarut Supasiraprapa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Usage-based theories hold that mental representation of language is shaped by a lifetime of usage. Both input to which first language (L1) and second language (L2) users are exposed and their own language production affect their construction learning and entrenchment. The present study investigates L2 users' knowledge of two…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Resches, Mariela; Junyent, Andrea; Fernández-Flecha, María; Blume, María; Kohan-Cortada, Ana – First Language, 2023
This article presents a cross-cultural comparison of the size and composition of the expressive vocabulary of young children speaking two dialectal varieties of South American Spanish. Ninety-one Peruvian and 91 Argentinian toddlers (mean age: 22.5 months), matched on gender, age and maternal education, were assessed through the respective…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Gender Differences, Nouns, Language Variation
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Teaka Sowaprux; Jirada Wudthayagorn; Thanakorn Jirasevijinda – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Conceptualizing how EMI teachers use language in multilingual university settings remains a challenge. While previous studies have explored the language challenges faced by EMI science teachers, few have operationalized 'classroom routines' for understanding classroom language use. This feasibility study applies Freeman et al.'s (2015)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Graduate Medical Education, Medical Students
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Regan, Brendan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examines the role of language proficiency and other individual factors (attitudes, input) in the acquisition of language-specific [ð] and dialect-specific [Ø] allophones of Spanish intervocalic /d/ in the /ado/ context by L2 and heritage Spanish speakers during a short-term study abroad in Sevilla, Spain. Twenty L2-intermediate, 10…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Jasper Hong Sim; Brechtje Post – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Linguistic input in multi-lingual/-cultural contexts is highly variable. We examined the production of English and Malay laterals by fourteen early bilingual preschoolers in Singapore who were exposed to several allophones of coda laterals: Malay caregivers use predominantly clear-l in English and Malay, but their English coda laterals can also be…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Child Language, Indonesian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship
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Saldana, Carmen; Smith, Kenny; Kirby, Simon; Culbertson, Jennifer – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Languages exhibit variation at all linguistic levels, from phonology, to the lexicon, to syntax. Importantly, that variation tends to be (at least partially) conditioned on some aspect of the social or linguistic context. When variation is unconditioned, language learners regularize it -- removing some or all variants, or conditioning variant use…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Comparative Analysis, Language Variation
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Abdulaal, Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody – TESOL International Journal, 2021
In this paper, the researcher aims at investigating and revisiting the impact of Krashen's input hypothesis on L2 output. Based on Krashen's theories, the researcher proposes the homogeneity hypothesis as an extension to the input hypothesis. Homogeneity hypothesis states that the linguistic input given to L2 learners should be not only…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Han, Jeong-Im; Kim, Song Yi – Second Language Research, 2022
The present study investigated the influence of orthographic input on the recognition of second language (L2) spoken words with phonological variants, when first language (L1) and L2 have different orthographic structures. Lexical encoding for intermediate-to-advanced level Mandarin learners of Korean was assessed using masked cross-modal and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Syllables
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Antonijevic, Stanislava; Muckley, Sarah Ann; Muller, Nicole – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Irish is a rapidly changing minority language spoken as the main community language in some areas of the officially Irish-speaking "Gaeltacht" regions in Ireland. We analyse narratives from 17 parent-child dyads, living in one such area. All children, aged 3-6;4, had high exposure to the local variety of Irish. The input quality was…
Descriptors: Irish, Morphology (Languages), Language Minorities, Parent Child Relationship
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Putri, I Gusti Ayu Vina Widiadnya; Nurita, Wayan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The impact of the lexicons that were often used in the past will be eroded due to the environmental conditions that surround them. This study has examined the critical condition in Balinese lexicon extinction. There are some Balinese language vocabularies that are almost extinct by the current generation due to cultural hegomonization. The…
Descriptors: Indonesian Languages, Language Skill Attrition, Language Maintenance, Vocabulary
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Requena, Pablo E.; Tissera, María Victoria – Hispania, 2018
This study examines how faithfully second language (L2) Spanish textbooks represent the variability found in natural language use with regard to variable clitic placement (VCP). We offer a corpus study of VCP in the language used throughout nine Spanish L2 textbooks, which constitute all the available textbooks designed to teach Rioplatense…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Languages, Textbook Evaluation, Textbook Standards
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