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Leow, Ronald P.; Hama, Mike – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
There is a growing theoretical, empirical, and methodological debate in the SLA field as to whether unawareness plays a role during attention to or processing of new incoming second language (L2) data. Indeed, studies that have methodologically addressed the construct of unawareness in their research designs offer both empirical support (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Attention, Language Processing, Incidental Learning
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Herschensohn, Julia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article reexamines Bley-Vroman's original (1990) and evolved fundamental difference hypothesis that argues that differences in path and endstate of first language acquisition and adult foreign language learning result from differences in the acquisition procedure (i.e., language faculty and cognitive strategies, respectively). The evolved…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Adults
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Harrington, Michael; Dennis, Simon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Responds to Ellis (2002), which suggests the statistical structure of the linguistic environment is a crucial and relatively neglected variable in language learning. This approach makes three assumptions about cognition and language learning that are not universally shared. Describes a distributed, instance-based approach that retains key features…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
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Bley-Vroman, Robert – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Discusses frequency effects in language acquisition. Provides an example of how frequency may relate to grammatical judgments of nonnative speakers acquisition of multiple wh-questions. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Input
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Tarone, Elaine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Responds to Ellis (2002), which focuses on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition. Suggests his findings are consistent with those of second language acquisition researchers working with a variationist framework. Provides a brief overview of this research area and describes a psycholinguistic model of language…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Psycholinguistics
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Gass, Susan M.; Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
In response to Ellis (2002), which focuses on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition, this article argues in favor of a role for frequency in several areas of second language acquisition, including interactional input and output and speech processing. Also discusses areas where L2 acquisition appears to proceed…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Input
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Ellis, Nick C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
An author reacts to a series of responses written in regard to an earlier article by the author on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition. Addresses a number of issues raised in the responses and concludes by emphasizing that language acquisition is a process of dynamic emergence and learners' language is a…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Input
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Chaudron, Craig – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1985
Looks at recent research on learners' intake of a second language and concludes that second language research has inadequately explored the process of intake. Argues that both theory and the research derived from it need to develop consistent, well-defined models and methods for investigating language learners' processing of input. (SED)
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Language Processing, Language Research, Learning Processes
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Bybee, Joan – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Discusses the role of frequency in phonological reduction. Argues that phonological alternations provide evidence for the size and nature of morphosyntactic chunks. The phonological shape of words provides evidence that categorization is not completely exemplar based, but rather involves some abstraction resembling the construction of a prototype.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Morphology (Languages), Phonology
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Eubank, Lynn; Gregg, Kevin R. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
In response to Ellis (2002), which resurrects the notion that language acquisition consists of frequency-based abstraction of regularities from input, this article suggests Ellis ignores fundamental and well-known problems, including the poverty of the stimulus, cases of instantaneous acquisition, and evidence for innate knowledge. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Competence, Linguistic Input
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Responds to Ellis (2002), which focuses on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition. Contextualizes the frequency factor in terms of the evolution of second language acquisition (SLA) research. Suggests that although relevant and important, the frequency factor requires greater definition and qualification.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Input
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Smith, Michael Sharwood – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
The concept of input to the language learner is examined with reference to some current theorizing about language processing and the idea of modular systems of knowledge. It is argued that exposure to a second language engages the learner in a whole battery of different processing mechanisms. (21 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Input
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Schinke-Llano, Linda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Reviews recent research, and discusses difficulties inherent in research, on the language development of bilingual children. Recommendations are made supporting a multidisciplinary approach to research on language development in bilingual children, and suggested avenues of inquiry within such a framework are outlined. (112 references) (Author/OD)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences, Language Processing
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MacWhinney, Brian – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Comments on changes in the relation between experimental psychology and second language acquisition research. Notes that new themes borrowed from experimental psychology include practice effects, the power law, connectionism, implicit learning and miniature artificial languages. Argues that attempts to attribute language learning to implicit or…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Change Agents, Experimental Psychology, Language Processing
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Hulstijn, Jan H. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Responds to an Ellis (2002), which focuses on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition, Emphasizes the importance of placing frequency in an overarching theoretical framework of language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage
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