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The Processing of L2 Internal Syllabic Constituents: Cross-Linguistic Difference and Input Frequency
Direct linkSeong, Jihye – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the development of the internal structure of the Korean syllable by adult Korean learners whose native language is English. Prior research has identified the prominence of the body constituent in Korean and the rime constituent in English. The current study focuses on the acquisition of the body unit by English speakers…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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
Barrios, Shannon L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty producing and perceiving non-native phonological contrasts. Even highly proficient bilinguals, who have been exposed to an L2 for long periods of time, struggle with difficult contrasts, such as /r/-/l/ for Japanese learners of English. To account for the relative ease or difficulty…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Phonology, Auditory Perception
Bailey, Carolina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the acquisition of the Spanish clitic se by English native speakers in passive, middle, and impersonal constructions. Little research has been done on this topic in SLA within a UG framework (Bayona, 2005; Bruhn de Garavito, 1999). VanPatten (2004) proposed the Processing Instruction (PI) model arguing for the necessity of…
Descriptors: Spanish, English, Native Speakers, Pretests Posttests
Algady, Dola – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The new developments in syntactic theory under Minimalism reconsiders the relation between the language faculty and general cognitive systems whereby language acquisition is accomplished by the interaction of Chomsky (2005)'s three factors: (F1) a minimally specified UG (Genetic endowment); (F2) Primary Linguistic Data (PLD), i.e., input; and (F3)…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure, Interlanguage
Perpinan-Hinarejos, Silvia – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in L2 Spanish by English and Moroccan Arabic speakers in order to understand the role of previous linguistic knowledge and its interaction with Universal Grammar on the one hand, and the relationship between grammatical knowledge and its use in real-time, on the other hand.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Reaction Time, Form Classes (Languages)
