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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Researching L2 Lexical Acquisition, Processing, and Use: An Introduction to the Special Issue
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Elgort, Irina; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Second Language Research, 2021
Lexical knowledge is complex, multidimensional, and difficult to pin down to a set of defined components. The development, organization, and use of lexical knowledge in the first and additional languages are studied in a number of neighbouring disciplines beyond second language acquisition and applied linguistics, including psycholinguistics,…
Descriptors: Language Research, Research Methodology, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning
Short Research Note: The Beginning Spanish Lexicon--A Web-Based Interface to Calculate Phonological Similarity among Spanish Words in Adults Learning Spanish as a Foreign Language
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Vitevitch, Michael S.; Stamer, Melissa K.; Kieweg, Douglas – Second Language Research, 2012
A number of resources provide psycholinguistic researchers with information about the words that the typical child or adult knows in a variety of languages. What is currently not available is a resource that provides information about the words that a typical adult learning a foreign language knows. We created such a resource for Spanish: The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adult Learning, Vocabulary Development, Spanish
The Basic Variety (or: Couldn't Natural Languages Be Much Simpler?).
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Klein, Wolfgang; Perdue, Clive – Second Language Research, 1997
Discusses the implications of the tendency of adult second-language learners to develop a well-structured, simple form of language outside the classroom, i.e. the Basic Variety (BV). Focuses on the structural properties of the BV, the status of these properties and the reasons why some structural properties of "fully fledged" languages are more…
Descriptors: Adults, Basic Vocabulary, Grammar, Language Processing