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Stringer, David – Second Language Research, 2021
Westergaard (2021) presents an updated account of the Linguistic Proximity Model and the micro-cue approach to the parser as an acquisition device. The property-by-property view of transfer inherent in this approach contrasts with other influential models that assume that third language (L3) acquisition involves the creation of a full copy of only…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Truscott, John – Second Language Research, 2014
Optionality is a central phenomenon in second language acquisition (SLA), for which any adequate theory must account. Amaral and Roeper (this issue; henceforth A&R) offer an appealing approach to it, using Roeper's Multiple Grammars Theory, which was created with first language in mind but which extends very naturally to SLA. They include…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Language Research
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Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Muysken argues for four general "strategies" that characterize language contact phenomena across several levels of description. These strategies are (A) maximize structural coherence of the first language (L1); (B) maximize structural coherence of the second language (L2); (C) match between L1 and L2 patterns where possible; and (D) use…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Processing, Native Language, 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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Paradis, Michel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Babcok et al. (2012) claim that Paradis (1994, 2004, 2009) argues that the reliance of late L2 learners on L1 neurocognitive mechanisms increases over time across both lexical and grammatical functions, namely for lexical items as well as rule-governed grammatical procedures, when in fact one can find repeated statements to the contrary in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Transfer of Training
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Pienemann, Manfred; Hakansson, Gisela – Second Language Research, 2007
Ute Bohnacker's (2006) article on the acquisition of the verb second (V2) property in German by native speakers of Swedish (also a V2 language) is an attempted rebuttal of Hakansson et al.'s (2002) work on first language (L1) transfer and aspects of the underlying theory on which the work is based: Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998). The…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Swedish, German
Chen, Howard – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 1995
This paper re-examines the controversial issues of the binding parameter in second language acquisition or anaphoric-binding, suggesting that the first language, rather than universal grammar (UG), plays an important role in interpreting the anaphora. In reviewing findings from other related disciplines, including linguistics and first language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
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Carroll, Susanne E. – Second Language Research, 1999
Raises a series of problems that attach to the standard analysis of input to learning as the stimulus array minus unattended-to information, where attention is construed as a selection function. Demonstrates the inadequacy of this distinction as the foundation for a theory of input in second-language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Universals
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Chisanga, T.; Kamwangamalu, N. M. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses the issue of who owns English from the perspective of non-native Englishes in Southern Africa, with a focus on the linguistic processes underpinning the owning of English there. Suggests that claiming ownership of English in the African context means to make English carry the weight of one's African experience and to alter it to suit its…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Context Effect, Cultural Context, English (Second Language)