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Wrembel, Magdalena – Second Language Research, 2021
This commentary discusses the recent keynote article by Westergaard (2021), which is an interesting contribution to the field of language acquisition and multilingualism, especially because it attempts to provide a wider perspective by embracing first, second and third language acquisition. I address major claims put forward by Westergaard, to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Phonology
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Salsbury, Tom; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Second Language Research, 2011
This study uses word information scores from the Medical Research Council (MRC) Psycholinguistic Database to analyse word development in the spontaneous speech data of six adult learners of English as a second language (L2) in a one-year longitudinal study. In contrast to broad measures of lexical development, such as word frequency and lexical…
Descriptors: Medical Research, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Learning, Familiarity