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Cobb, Tom; Laufer, Batia – Language Learning, 2021
This article introduces the NFL7 (Nuclear Family List 7), a list of the 2,887 most frequent "nuclear" word families, that is, families that include just the most frequent family members and exclude those that constitute less than 7% of family occurrences. The NFL7 was developed by using a dedicated computer program, the Nuclear List…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Morphology (Languages), Word Frequency, Receptive Language
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Iwaizumi, Emi; Webb, Stuart – Language Learning, 2023
This study explores the effects of receptive derivational affix knowledge, derivative frequency, part of speech, and vocabulary breadth on production of derivatives. Twenty-one speakers of English as a first language and 107 learners of English as a second language were asked to produce derivatives for 90 prompt words on a decontextualized…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Elisabeth Wilhelmina Maria Hopman – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Generalization is the ability to apply regularities to novel instances, for example, correctly guessing that the plural for the novel English word 'wug' should be 'wugs'. Early language learners make overgeneralization errors like 'mouses', applying regularities beyond their attested uses. Theories concerned with the question of how learners learn…
Descriptors: Generalization, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Patterns
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Sippel, Lieselotte – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This study explored whether form-focused instruction (FFI) and peer corrective feedback (CF) facilitated vocabulary development during peer interaction (PI). Third-semester learners of German were assigned to a PI group (peer interaction only), PI FFI group (peer interaction and form-focused instruction), or PI FFI CF group (peer interaction,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Error Correction, Grammar, Pretests Posttests
Mason, Sara Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This thesis examines whether native, heritage, and L2 speakers of Spanish engage a morphological layer of representation in the processing of inflected words, and whether they do so with both regularly- and irregularly-inflected words. Also examined is whether this tendency towards compositional (i.e. morphological rule-based) processing is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Usage, Accuracy
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Rothou, Kyriakoula M.; Padeliadu, Susana – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
The study explored the inflectional morphological awareness of Greek-speaking children with dyslexia in grade 3. The sample consisted of 24 dyslexic children and 32 chronological age-matched typically developing readers. All participants completed two oral experimental tasks of inflectional morphological awareness (i.e., verb inflections and…
Descriptors: Greek, Dyslexia, Language Processing, Metalinguistics
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Lukacs, Agnes; Kas, Bence – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
Previous studies of children with language impairment (LI) reveal an insensitivity to aspect that may constitute part of the children's deficit. In this study, we examine aspect as well as tense in Hungarian-speaking children with LI. Twenty-one children with LI, 21 TD children matched for age, and 21 TD children matched for receptive vocabulary…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Impairments, Hungarian, Morphemes