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Lammertink, Imme; Boersma, Paul; Wijnen, Frank; Rispens, Judith – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties acquiring the grammatical rules of their native language. It has been proposed that children's detection of sequential statistical patterns correlates with grammatical proficiency and hence that a deficit in the detection of these regularities may underlie the difficulties with…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition, Native Language
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Keawchaum, Raksina; Pongpairoj, Nattama – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2017
This study investigated how frequency influenced acquisition of L2 English infinitive and gerund complements among L1 Thai learners. Participants were separated into low and high proficiency groups based on their CU-TEP scores. Each group consisted of 30 participants. Data were collected using the Word Selection Task (WST) and the Grammaticality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition
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Ratigan, Mary K. D. – Child Study Journal, 1980
Investigated the seriation ability of two groups of four-year-old children with differing levels of language functioning. Results indicated that subjects with delayed language development demonstrated a severe delay in seriation ability, while subjects with normally developing language demonstrated seriation ability commensurate with their…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Preschool Children, Serial Learning, Serial Ordering
Berman, Ruth A.; Dromi, Esther – 1984
A study of the acquisition of time-related grammatical forms in Hebrew-speaking children looked at three kinds of information: (1) relative frequency of occurrence of different verb forms at different ages; (2) the relationship between tense-marking on verbs and the semantics of verbs used at different ages, and (3) the use of time adverbs…
Descriptors: Child Language, Hebrew, Language Acquisition, Semantics
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Murray, W. S.; Forster, K. I. – Psychological Review, 2004
There is general agreement that the effect of frequency on lexical access time is roughly logarithmic, although little attention has been given to the reason for this. The authors argue that models of lexical access that incorporate a frequency-ordered serial comparison or verification procedure provide an account of this effect and predict that…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Word Frequency, Serial Ordering, Serial Learning