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The Bounds of Adult Language Acquisition: Blocking and Learned Attention
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
The current study investigates the limited attainment of adult language acquisition in terms of an associative learning phenomenon whereby earlier learned cues attentionally block those that are experienced later. Short- and long-term blocking are demonstrated in experimental investigations of learned attention in the acquisition of temporal…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Associative Learning, Early Experience
Learned Attention in Adult Language Acquisition: A Replication and Generalization Study and Meta-Analysis
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Ellis, Nick C.; Sagarra, Nuria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study investigates associative learning explanations of the limited attainment of adult compared to child language acquisition in terms of learned attention to cues. It replicates and extends Ellis and Sagarra (2010) in demonstrating short- and long-term learned attention in the acquisition of temporal reference in Latin. In Experiment 1,…
Descriptors: Cues, Form Classes (Languages), Morphology (Languages), Child Language
The Acquisition of Progressive and Resultative Meanings of the Imperfective Aspect Marker by L2 Learners of Japanese: Transfer, Universals, or Multiple Factors?
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Sugaya, Natsue; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
It has been observed that there is a strong association between the inherent (lexical) aspect of verbs and the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology (the aspect hypothesis; Andersen & Shirai, 1994). To investigate why such an association is observed, this study examined the influence of inherent aspect and learners' first language (L1) on the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers
Dissociable Systems in Second Language Inflectional Morphology
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Murphy, Victoria A. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2004
Pinker and Prince (1988) argued that two dissociable systems underlie the development of linguistic representations: one rule governed and the other associative. These two dissociable systems of representation and processing are claimed to be a linguistic universal (Pinker, 1999). Therefore, one should expect that nonnative speakers of a language…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Linguistics, Second Language Learning
Relationship between Lexical Competence and Language Proficiency: Variable Sensitivity
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Zareva, Alla; Schwanenflugel, Paula; Nikolova, Yordanka – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
The purpose of the present study was to determine what features associated with the macrolevel of lexical competence vary as a function of an increase in second language (L2) proficiency. The macrolevel of participants' word knowledge was described with respect to six variables that are commonly associated with three proposed macrolevel…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Associative Learning, Word Frequency, Vocabulary
A Multiple Word Association Probe in Second Language Acquisition Research.
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Kruse, Heleen; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
The background of word association tests is described, their potential relevance to second language (L2) research considered, and the history of their use as L2 measuring instruments reviewed. A computer-controlled word association test is described. The test was not established as a valid indicator of language proficiency. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Association Measures, Associative Learning, Computer Uses in Education, Dutch