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Direct linkMina Robinson Hirzel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents behavioral studies that target the early syntactic representations of "wh"-movement during infancy and early childhood. Previous studies show that by 20 months-old, infants represent "wh"-movement and use this knowledge to respond to "wh"-questions during language comprehension tasks…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, Language Acquisition
John Y. Kwak – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation articulates and defends a view about linguistic competence called 'variabilism'. According to variabilism, the epistemic demands of full linguistic competence vary in a particular way. More specifically, variabilism holds that different individual lexical application conditions (individually essential metaphysical ways of being…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Semantics, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
Spencer Philip Caplan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation investigates the wide-ranging implications of a simple fact: language unfolds over time. Whether as cognitive symbols in our minds, or as their physical realization in the world, if linguistic computations are not made over transient and shifting information as it occurs, they cannot be made at all. This dissertation explores the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics
Adam Liter – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation presents a series of case studies concerned with whether the signal in a given set of measurements that we take in the course of linguistic inquiry reflects grammatical competence or performance factors. We know that performance and competence do not always covary, yet it is not uncommon to assume that measurements that we take…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grammar, Linguistic Competence, Measurement Techniques
Elias Shakkour – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In second language acquisition, it is well known that an early age of onset and an extensive amount of naturalistic input are key elements promoting successful learning outcomes. What is less well known is what outcomes we can expect when the main source of these elements is full-immersion schooling, defined for the purposes of this study as a…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Comparative Analysis
McCoy, Lorraine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The second language (L2) acquisition of tense, aspect, and mood/modality (TAM) has been widely explored as it holds the promise of a better understanding of the L2 learners' linguistic competences, particularly semantically and morpho-syntactically. This study focuses on the acquisition of the subjunctive mood by L1 English learners of L2 French…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, French
