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Benjamin Luke Davies; Katherine Demuth – Language Learning and Development, 2024
When acquiring the English plural, children correctly produce plural words long before they develop an understanding of morphological structure. When acquiring Sesotho noun prefixes, children are aware of the multiple constraints governing variation from a young age. Both of these cases raise questions about the Shin and Miller (2022) account of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Second Language Learning
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Westergaard, Marit – Second Language Research, 2014
The article by Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) presents many interesting ideas about first and second language acquisition as well as some experimental data convincingly illustrating the difference between production and comprehension. The article extends the concept of Universal Bilingualism proposed in Roeper (1999) to second…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Language Acquisition
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Hulk, Aafke; Unsworth, Sharon – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In her very interesting Keynote Article, Johanne Paradis gives a clear overview of recent research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders, and highlights its theoretical and clinical implications. She raises the challenging question of "whether bilingualism can be viewed as a kind of "therapy" for SLI." At first…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Therapy, Bilingualism
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Hakansson, Gisela – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Joanne Paradis' Keynote Article on bilingualism and specific language impairment (SLI) is an impressive overview of research in language acquisition and language impairment. Studying different populations is crucial both for theorizing about language acquisition mechanisms, and for practical purposes of diagnosing and supporting children with…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
What makes a child's language development trajectory have the patterns that it has, and what causes differences across children in those patterns? These fundamental questions have for over half a century been at the heart of research on language development in monolingual children, on the cross-linguistic development of language in children from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Profiles
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Sorace, Antonella – Second Language Research, 2000
Discusses syntactic optionality, the coexistence within an individual grammar of two or more variants of a given construction that make use of the same lexical resources and express the same meaning. Focus is on syntactic optionality in second language grammars. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Zierer, Ernesto – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This article describes a plan to develop bilingualism carried out by the parents of a child of pre-school age who died of brain cancer at the age of five. The child learned German, the language of his father, and Spanish, the language of his mother, consecutively. (CFM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Bilingualism, Child Language, German
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Kennedy, Barbara L. – Language Learning, 1988
Assumes that adult second language learners cannot achieve the same degree of proficiency in a second language as children learning a second language. An information-processing approach is presented, and the aspects of utilization, faulty or incomplete declarative knowledge, and limited working memory space are used to account for deficiencies in…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Child Language, Language Processing
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Harklau, Linda – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2002
Argues that writing should play a more prominent role in classroom-based studies of second language acquisition. Contends that an implicit emphasis on spoken language is the result of the historical development of the field of applied linguistics and parent disciplines of structuralist linguistics, linguistic anthropology, and child language…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classroom Research, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Rampton, Ben – Modern Language Journal, 1997
Argues, from a sociolinguistic perspective, that second language (L2) research could usefully engage with some of the debates concerning postmodernity. Suggests that globalization presents an important range of empirical phenomena requiring serious L2 study. Indicates the kinds of linguistic assumptions that ideas about postmodernity draw into…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Child Language, Global Approach, Language Attitudes
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Ioup, Georgette – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Disagrees with Ellis's claim (1996) that learning the grammatical word class of a particular word, and learning grammatical structures more generally, involves in "large part" the automatic implicit analysis of the word's sequential position. The article maintains that some grammatical acquisition, but not "vast amounts," derives from the analysis…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Grammar, Learning Processes
MacClaren, Richard I. – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Discusses the concepts of linguistic awareness and metalinguistic consciousness and their development in individuals, and shows how making a distinction between the two concepts can be useful to linguists, particularly in the areas of first and second language learning. (CFM)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
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White, Lydia – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Discusses several objections to Krashen's Input Hypothesis which states that language acquisition is the learners' understanding of a language at a stage slightly higher than their current one because of their understanding of extralinguistic cues of the language. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Interference (Language), Interlanguage, Learning Theories
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Snow, Catherine E.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1980
Studies the acquisition of the morphological rules for plural, agentive, and demonstrative suffixes in Dutch. Native-speaking and second language learning children were studied. Both groups showed acquisition orders for plural and agentive, and the second-language group showed interference in acquiring the agentive. Morphological acquisition thus…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dutch, Interference (Language), Language Acquisition
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Piper, Terry – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1987
Posits that a child's success in acquiring English may depend to a large degree on his or her proficiency in the heritage language. (CB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English (Second Language), Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
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