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Lowie, Wander; Verspoor, Marjolijn – Language Learning, 2015
The traditional morpheme order studies in second language acquisition have tried to demonstrate the existence of a fixed order of acquisition of English morphemes, regardless of the second language learner's background. Such orders have been taken as evidence of the preprogrammed nature of language acquisition. This article argues for a…
Descriptors: Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Homae, Fumitaka; Watanabe, Hama; Taga, Gentaro – Language Learning, 2014
Infants often pay special attention to speech sounds, and they appear to detect key features of these sounds. To investigate the neural foundation of speech perception in infants, we measured cortical activation using near-infrared spectroscopy. We presented the following three types of auditory stimuli while 3-month-old infants watched a silent…
Descriptors: Infants, Speech, Auditory Perception, Intonation
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Kahng, Jimin – Language Learning, 2014
Although fluency constitutes an essential component of second language (L2) proficiency, there are mixed results and gaps in the literature on how L2 speakers' fluency differs from fluent speech production in a first language (L1). The research reported in this article investigated utterance fluency and cognitive fluency of L1 English…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Language Processing, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency
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Morgan-Short, Kara; Sanz, Cristina; Steinhauer, Karsten; Ullman, Michael T. – Language Learning, 2010
This study employed an artificial language learning paradigm together with a combined behavioral/event-related potential (ERP) approach to examine the neurocognition of the processing of gender agreement, an aspect of inflectional morphology that is problematic in adult second language (L2) learning. Subjects learned to speak and comprehend an…
Descriptors: Nouns, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Artificial Languages
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Stafford, Catherine A.; Bowden, Harriet Wood; Sanz, Cristina – Language Learning, 2012
Input exposure is essential for nonprimary language learning, but the importance of explicit instruction and corrective feedback continues to be debated. If instruction is required, how might it be optimized in terms of its nature and timing? In this study, 65 Spanish-English bilinguals were introduced to Latin through an interactive computer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Experimental Groups, Sentences, Cues
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Clahsen, Harald; Felser, Claudia; Neubauer, Kathleen; Sato, Mikako; Silva, Renita – Language Learning, 2010
This article presents a selective overview of studies that have investigated how advanced adult second language (L2) learners process morphologically complex words. The studies reported here have used different kinds of experimental tasks (including speeded grammaticality judgments, lexical decision, and priming) to examine three domains of…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Language Processing, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Gor, Kira; Cook, Svetlana – Language Learning, 2010
There is little agreement on the mechanisms involved in second language (L2) processing of regular and irregular inflectional morphology and on the exact role of age, amount, and type of exposure to L2 resulting in differences in L2 input and use. The article contributes to the ongoing debates by reporting the results of two experiments on Russian…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Russian, Native Speakers
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Toth, Paul D. – Language Learning, 2008
This study compares quantitative and qualitative results for task-based second language (L2) grammar instruction conducted as whole-class, teacher-led discourse (TLD) versus small-group, learner-led discourse (LLD). Participants included 78 English-speaking adults from six university classes of beginning L2 Spanish, with two assigned to each…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grammar, English, Native Speakers
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Leow, Ronald P. – Language Learning, 1997
Examined the role of awareness in relation to R. W. Schmidt's noticing hypothesis in second language acquisition. The study analyzed the think-aloud protocols of adult learners of Spanish as a second language as they were completing a problem-solving task as well as their immediate performances on two post-exposure assessment tasks, a recognition…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes