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Banko, Miroslaw; Witalisz, Alicja; Hansen, Karolina – Language Awareness, 2022
This article reports on a study whose aim was to analyze the relation between the level of declarative purism and the preference for a particular loanword adaptation technique. Evidence from many languages shows that language purists accept foreign words more readily if they are in a native disguise; as a consequence, they choose adaptation…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Polish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hamideh Mohammadi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The processing of structurally ambiguous sentences has proven resourceful in understanding the human parser. In particular, the resolution of globally and temporarily ambiguous relative clauses (RC) preceded by a complex noun phrase (NP) such as "Someone shot [the servant]NP1 of [the actress]NP2 [who was on the balcony]RC" has been found…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Heritage Education
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Cheng, Qi; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous studies suggest that age of acquisition affects the outcomes of learning, especially at the morphosyntactic level. Unknown is how syntactic development is affected by increased cognitive maturity and delayed language onset. The current paper studied the early syntactic development of adolescent first language learners by examining word…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Language, American Sign Language, Adolescents
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Akgül, Esra; Yazici, Dila; Akman, Berrin – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study aims to compare the views of parents living in their own country or abroad on raising bilingual children. At the end of the study, we found that parents from both groups gave similar answers to the questions regarding the definition of bilingualism and the age for starting bilingual education; however, they gave similar but also…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preferences, Foreign Nationals, Child Rearing
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Iraola Azpiroz, Maialen; Santesteban, Mikel; Sorace, Antonella; Ezeizabarrena, Maria-José – First Language, 2017
This study presents comprehension data from 6-7-and 8-10-year-old children as well as adults on the acceptability of null vs overt anaphoric forms (the demonstrative "hura" "that" and the quasipronoun bera "(s)he, him-/herself") in Basque, a language without true third-person pronouns. In an acceptability judgement…
Descriptors: Preferences, Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Yeung, H. Henny; Chen, Ke Heng; Werker, Janet F. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2013
Previous studies have suggested that the perception of vowels and consonants changes from language-universal to language-specific between 6 and 12 months of age. This report suggests that language-specific perception emerges even earlier for lexical tones. Experiment 1 tested English-learners' perception of Cantonese tones, replicating declines in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Phonetics, Auditory Perception, Infants
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Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Second Language Research, 2015
The present study examines and compares the extent to which advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish heritage speakers acquire the syntactic and semantic properties that regulate the grammatical representation of double complementizer questions in Spanish, a CP-related structure not present in English. Results from an aural sentence completion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Role
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NORDSCI, 2021
This volume includes three sections of the 2021 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; (2) Language and Linguistics; and (3) Sociology and Healthcare. Education and Educational Research includes 15 papers covering the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy of education,…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers, Lesson Plans, Design