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The Role of "Is" in the Acquisition of Finiteness by Adult Turkish Learners of Dutch
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van de Craats, Ineke – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article deals with the interlanguage of adult second language (L2) learners acquiring finiteness. Due to the inaccessibility of bound inflectional morphology, learners use free morphology to mark a syntactic relationship as well as person and number features separately from the thematic verb, expressed by a pattern like "the man is go".…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Indo European Languages, Interlanguage
The Relevance of Information Organization to Second Language Acquisition Studies. The Descriptive Discourse of Advanced Adult Learners of German.
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Caroll, Mary; Murcia-Serra, Jorge; Watorek, Marzena; Bendiscioli, Alessandra – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Focuses on the relevance of principles of information organization in adult second language acquisition. Looks at typological features of information structure that allow speakers to organize and shape the flow of information when carrying out complex tasks and pinpoints factors that lead to the selection of linguistic form. The nature of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, English, German
Narrative Structure and Lexical Aspect: Conspiring Factors in Second Language Acquisition of Tense-Aspect Morphology.
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Discusses two hypotheses on the distribution of emergent tense-aspect morphology in second language acquisition: aspect hypothesis and discourse hypothesis. Analyzes narrative structure and lexical aspectual class in a single corpus comprising narratives produced by adult learners of English as a Second Language at various proficiency levels.…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Morphology (Languages)
Constraints on "Noticing the Gap": Nonnative Speakers' Noticing of Recasts in NS-NNS Interaction
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Philp, Jenefer – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2003
Interaction has been argued to promote noticing of L2 form in a context crucial to learning--when there is a mismatch between the input and the learner's interlanguage (IL) grammar (Gass & Varonis, 1994; Long, 1996; Pica, 1994). This paper investigates the extent to which learners may notice native speakers' reformulations of their IL grammar in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Metacognition, Grammar
Learners' Hypotheses for the Acquisition of Lexis.
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Giacobbe, Jorge; Cammarota, Marie-Ange – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
The relationship between the source language (Spanish) and the target language (French) in the construction of lexis during target language acquisition was examined in two case studies, leading to the hypothesis that there are both systematic and nonsystematic approaches to the construction of lexis used by Hispanophones learning French.…
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Code Switching (Language), Cognitive Processes
Production vs. Comprehension: Differences in Underlying Competencies.
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Flynn, Suzanne – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Fifty-one adult Spanish speakers at three levels of ESL ability were tested in both their elicited imitation (production) and act-out (comprehension) of complex sentences that were structurally identical. Analysis of variance results indicate that production tests, not comprehension tests, principally evaluate a learner's structural knowledge.…
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Markedness Universals and the Acquisition of Voicing Contrasts by Korean Speakers of English.
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Major, Roy C.; Faudree, Michael C. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Studies native speakers of Korean to determine the role of universals in their acquisition of English obstruent voicing contrasts. Data were collected from a passage and a word list containing voiced and voiceless obstruents in initial, medial, and final word positions. Results reflected principles of markedness, universals of L1 acquisition, and…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Consonants, English (Second Language)