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Yang, Charles; Montrul, Silvina – Second Language Research, 2017
We study the learnability problem concerning the dative alternations in English (Baker, 1979; Pinker, 1989). We consider how first language learners productively apply the double-object and to-dative constructions ("give the book to library"/"give the library the book"), while excluding negative exceptions ("donate the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Databases, Linguistic Input
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Wilson, Rosemary; Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Second Language Research, 2010
The present article focuses on data collection through web questionnaires, as opposed to the traditional pen-and-paper method for research in second language acquisition and bilingualism. It is argued that web questionnaires, which have been used quite widely in psychology, have the advantage of reaching out to a larger and more diverse pool of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Questionnaires, Internet, Language Acquisition
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Rutherford, William; Thomas, Margaret – Second Language Research, 2001
Reviews two guides on the Child Language Data Exchange (CHILDES) project, both of which provide tools for analyzing talk. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Child Language, Databases, Language Research, Second Language Instruction
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Myles, Florence – Second Language Research, 2005
This article presents a selective review of the work carried out recently in second language acquisition (SLA) research which makes use of oral learner corpora and computer technologies. In the first part, the reasons why the field of SLA needs corpora for addressing current theoretical issues are briefly reviewed. In the second part, recent…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Interlanguage