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Isaac L. Bleaman; Chaya R. Nove – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2025
We introduce the Corpus of Spoken Yiddish in Europe (CSYE), an Open Access digital language archive based on several hundred testimony interviews with Holocaust survivors from the USC Shoah Foundation. The testimonies are a uniquely rich source of information on all aspects of European Yiddish: its regional dialects, grammatical structures,…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, German, Dialects, Language Styles
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Kazem Lotfipoursaedi – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2025
Study of language, like any other discipline, has naturally been developing ever since its inception. But it assumed an accelerated pace from the early twentieth century onwards with two or more paradigm-shifting outlooks, among which the 'socio-contextual surge onto the consideration of language functioning' led to the emergence of an approach…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Social Influences
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Sharwood Smith, Michael – Second Language Research, 2021
Research on multilingualism and the acquisition of language(s) faces numerous challenges given its inherently interdisciplinary character. This discussion will focus on the notion of internal context, a concept that forcefully demonstrates the need for integrating linguistically-oriented research with cognitive research in general. Investigating…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Enfield, N. J. – Cognitive Science, 2023
A central concern of the cognitive science of language since its origins has been the concept of the linguistic system. Recent approaches to the system concept in language point to the exceedingly complex relations that hold between many kinds of interdependent systems, but it can be difficult to know how to proceed when "everything is…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Guidelines, Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Research
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Hudson Kam, Carla L. – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Hudson Kam (2018) examined whether learning of a particular aspect of language that adults are known to have difficulty with (grammatical gender) could be improved by manipulating the learning experience of adults so that it was more like that of infants. Specifically, based on likely differences between adult and child learners' experiences as…
Descriptors: Infants, Adults, Language Acquisition, Comparative Analysis
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Tsupa, Yanina – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
Language proficiency is multi-componential in nature and, according to many SLA researchers and L2 practitioners, is best captured by the concepts of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF). Two of the three studies reported in this paper adopted the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2003) as the means to address the question of whether increasing…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Language Proficiency, Accuracy, Schemata (Cognition)
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Leonetti, Manuel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This paper argues against the assumption that Spanish--and more generally Romance--imperfective past (IMP) is an intrinsically anaphoric tense. It is a widely accepted view that IMP requires a temporal discourse antecedent to be licensed. My aim is to show that such requirement is not actually in force when IMP combines with a stative/atelic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Usage, Spanish, Sentence Structure
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Sok, Sarah; Kang, Eun Young; Han, ZhaoHong – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article offers a methodological synthesis spanning 35 years of instructed second language acquisition research on the efficacy of form-focused instruction. Eighty-eight (quasi-) experimental studies were sampled from six academic journals: "Applied Linguistics," "Language Learning," "Language Teaching Research,"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grammar
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Rothman, Jason; Slabakova, Roumyana – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This article has two main goals. The first is to summarize and comment on the current state of affairs of generative approaches to SLA (GenSLA), 35 years into its history. This discussion brings the readership of SSLA up to date on the questions driving GenSLA agendas and clears up misconceptions about what GenSLA does and does not endeavor to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Misconceptions, Research Methodology
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Jackson, Carrie N. – Second Language Research, 2018
The last 15 years has seen a tremendous growth in research on structural priming among second language (L2) speakers. Structural priming is the phenomenon whereby speakers are more likely to repeat a structure they have recently heard or produced. Research on L2 structural priming speaks to key issues regarding the underlying linguistic and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Priming, Grammar, Psycholinguistics
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Naigles, Letitia R. – First Language, 2020
This commentary critiques Ambridge's radical exemplar model of language acquisition using research from the Longitudinal Study of Early Language, which has tracked the language development of 30+ children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) since 2002. This research has demonstrated that the children's capacity for abstraction at the grammatical…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Longitudinal Studies, Grammar, Models
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Yi, Paige – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
This paper sets out to peruse the role of various theories or more precisely, hypotheses invoked in second language acquisition (SLA) research by surveying three empirical studies pertaining to the critical period hypothesis in the SLA of phonetics and phonology. In particular, the three studies reviewed are titled in chronological order as (1)…
Descriptors: Role, Linguistic Theory, Age Differences, Second Language Learning
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Westergaard, Marit – Second Language Research, 2021
In this article, I argue that first language (L1), second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition are fundamentally the same process, based on learning by parsing. Both child and adult learners are sensitive to fine linguistic distinctions, and language development takes place in small steps. While the bulk of the article focuses on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Zhou, Xiaoying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Chomsky put forth his "A-over-A" theory in his book "Language and Mind", which means if a sentence contains (S… (A...) A…) S (A-over-A) structure, then this sentence can only be transformed on the basis of the larger phrase. In this paper the author puts forth the "Psychological Momentum" theory to analyze the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ambiguity (Semantics), Linguistic Theory, Psychological Patterns
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Fodor, Janet Dean – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
An evaluation measure (EM) guides a learner's choice of grammar when more than one is compatible with available input. EM must be universal, so children receiving comparable input acquire comparable grammars. It must favor the choices children actually make. The theoretical shift from rule-based grammars to principles-and-parameter-based grammars…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Grammar
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