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Manuel F. Pulido – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Usage-based theory has proposed that learning of linguistic constructions is facilitated by input that contains few high-frequency exemplars, in what is known as a skewed (or Zipfian) input distribution. Early empirical work provided support to this idea, but subsequent L2 research has provided mixed findings. However, previous approaches have not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Language Usage
Perez-Cortes, Silvia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
For more than a decade, research on heritage speakers' (HSs') mood selection has documented a high degree of variability in their interpretation and use of mood morphology in variable contexts. Most of the previous literature, however, has focused on late-acquired alternations, and often limited analyses to one form (i.e., subjunctive), making it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Heritage Education, Verbs
Römer, Ute; Berger, Cynthia M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Based on writing produced by second language learners at different proficiency levels (CEFR A1 to C1), we adopted a usage-based approach (Ellis, Römer, & O'Donnell, 2016; Tyler & Ortega, 2018) to investigate how German and Spanish learner knowledge of 19 English verb-argument constructions (VACs; e.g., "V with n," illustrated by…
Descriptors: German, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction

Laufer, Batia; Eliasson, Stig – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1993
On multiple-choice and translation tests, 87 Swedish-speaking learners of English avoided neither phrasal nor figurative verbs, regardless of whether the verbs were similar to, or different from their Swedish translation equivalence. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Acquisition

Olshtain, Elite – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
Reports on studies focusing on individual attrition of English as a Second Language in an environment where Hebrew is the dominant language. Age, sociolinguistic features, input variables, and linguistic variables are discussed as well as major trends of change in language use that identify a limited reversal of the acquisition process. 29…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Culture Contact, English (Second Language)