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Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Spina, Stefania – Language Learning, 2020
In the present study, we sought to advance the field of learner corpus research by tracking the development of phrasal vocabulary in essays produced at two different points in time. To this aim, we employed a large pool of second language (L2) learners (N = 175) from three proficiency levels--beginner, elementary, and intermediate--and focused on…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Spina, Stefania – Language Learning, 2015
Research into frequency intuition has focused primarily on native (L1) and, to a lesser degree, nonnative (L2) speaker intuitions about single word frequency. What remains a largely unexplored area is L1 and L2 intuitions about collocation (i.e., phrasal) frequency. To bridge this gap, the present study aimed to answer the following question: How…
Descriptors: Intuition, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Phrase Structure
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Ordin, Mikhail; Nespor, Marina – Language Learning, 2013
A large body of empirical research demonstrates that people exploit a wide variety of cues for the segmentation of continuous speech in artificial languages, including rhythmic properties, phrase boundary cues, and statistical regularities. However, less is known regarding how the different cues interact. In this study we addressed the question of…
Descriptors: Syllables, Native Speakers, Italian, Phonology