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Direct linkAtes, Beyza S.; Küntay, Aylin C. – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This paper examines the way children younger than two use non-verbal devices (i.e., deictic gestures and communicative functional acts) and pay attention to discourse status (i.e., prior mention vs. newness) of referents in interactions with caregivers. Data based on semi-naturalistic interactions with caregivers of four children, at ages 1;00,…
Descriptors: Turkish, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Nonverbal Communication
Vajjala, Sowmya – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2018
Automatic essay scoring (AES) refers to the process of scoring free text responses to given prompts, considering human grader scores as the gold standard. Writing such essays is an essential component of many language and aptitude exams. Hence, AES became an active and established area of research, and there are many proprietary systems used in…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Essays, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Gablasova, Dana; Brezina, Vaclav; McEnery, Tony – Language Learning, 2017
This article focuses on the use of collocations in language learning research (LLR). Collocations, as units of formulaic language, are becoming prominent in our understanding of language learning and use; however, while the number of corpus-based LLR studies of collocations is growing, there is still a need for a deeper understanding of factors…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Computational Linguistics, Language Research, Second Language Learning
Malt, Barbara C.; White, Anne; Ameel, Eef; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Much has been said about children's strategies for mapping elements of meaning to words in toddlerhood. However, children continue to refine word meanings and patterns of word use into middle childhood and beyond, even for common words appearing in early vocabulary. We address where children past toddlerhood diverge from adults and where they more…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Biomechanics, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development
Gluhareva, Daria; Prieto, Pilar – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Recent research has shown that beat gestures (hand gestures that co-occur with speech in spontaneous discourse) are temporally integrated with prosodic prominence and that they help word memorization and discourse comprehension. However, little is known about the potential beneficial effects of beat gestures in second language (L2) pronunciation…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Lamy, Delano Sydney – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The present study is concerned with language contact between Creole English and Spanish spoken by bilingual West Indians who live in Panama City, Panama. The goal of this study is to examine the speech patterns of monolinguals of Creole English and Spanish and Spanish-Creole English bilinguals in the local communities of this region, by employing…
Descriptors: Creoles, Phonetics, Spanish, English
