Publication Date
In 2025 | 1 |
Since 2024 | 10 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 38 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 69 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 106 |
Descriptor
Comparative Analysis | 253 |
Sentence Structure | 253 |
Grammar | 82 |
Second Language Learning | 80 |
English (Second Language) | 66 |
Foreign Countries | 66 |
Language Processing | 64 |
Language Research | 53 |
Verbs | 53 |
English | 52 |
Syntax | 52 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 7 |
Teachers | 7 |
Researchers | 3 |
Location
Hong Kong | 5 |
China | 4 |
South Korea | 4 |
Germany | 3 |
Japan | 3 |
Canada | 2 |
France | 2 |
Indonesia | 2 |
Israel | 2 |
Italy | 2 |
Netherlands | 2 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Head Start | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Hye-ryeong Hahn – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
The current study explores the effects of processing demands and proficiency on second language (L2) learners' acceptability judgment of wh-island sentences. A total of 65 adult Korean learners of English and ten native speakers (NSs) of English participated in an experiment that combined self-paced reading and acceptability judgment. They were…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Verbs, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
Yoshiki Fujiwara; Hiroyuki Shimada – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2024
The goal of this paper is to tease apart two approaches to the source of children's consistent scope assignment in negative sentences containing logical connectives: the Semantic Subset Principle and the Semantic Subset Maxim. Previous developmental work has observed that four- to six-year-old children across languages have difficulty with…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
García-Tejada, Aída; Cuza, Alejandro; Lustres Alonso, Eduardo Gerardo – Second Language Research, 2023
Previous studies in the acquisition of clitic se in Spanish have focused on the syntactic processes needed to perform detransitivization. However, current approaches on event structure reveal that "se" encodes aspectual information which is crucial for its acquisition. We examine the use, intuition and interpretation of the aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Language Research, Monolingualism
Li, Daoxin; Schuler, Kathryn D. – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Languages differ regarding the depth, structure, and syntactic domains of recursive structures. Even within a single language, some structures allow infinite self-embedding while others are more restricted. For example, when expressing ownership relation, English allows infinite embedding of the prenominal genitive "-s," whereas the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input, Artificial Languages, Learning Processes
Haoyan Ge; Albert Kwing Lok Lee; Hoi Kwan Yuen; Fang Liu; Virginia Yip – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study investigated bilingualism effects on the production of focus in 5- to 9-year-old Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children's L1 Cantonese, compared to their monolingual autistic peers as well as monolingual and bilingual typically developing children matched in nonverbal IQ, working memory, receptive vocabulary and maternal…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Yuchen Wang; Juxiang Zhou; Zijie Li; Shu Zhang; Xiaoyu Han – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Graded reading is one of the important ways of English learning. How to automatically judge and grade the difficulty of the English reading corpus is of great significance for precision teaching and personalized learning. However, the current rule-based readability assessment methods have some limitations, such as low efficiency and poor accuracy.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Reading Materials, Readability, Semantics
Ronald R. Kelly; Gerald P. Berent; Erin Finton; Tanya Schueler-Choukairi; Stanley Van Horn; Zhong Chen; Kimberly Persky; Susan Post Rizzo; Kathryn L. Schmitz – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2025
College-level deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students and hearing students of English as a Second Language (L2) along with hearing native speakers (NS) of English were assessed in their knowledge of English resultative and depictive sentences. In "Kevin wiped the table clean," the resultative phrase "clean" indicates that the…
Descriptors: Deafness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Hard of Hearing
López Otero, Julio César; Cuza, Alejandro; Jiao, Jian – Second Language Research, 2023
The present study examines the production and intuition of Spanish clitics in clitic left dislocation (CLLD) structures among 26 Spanish heritage speakers (HSs) born and raised in Brazil. We tested clitic production and intuition in contexts in which Spanish clitics vary as a function of the semantic features of the object that they refer to.…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Language, Intuition, Semantics
White, Michelle Jennifer; Southwood, Frenette; Huddlestone, Kate – First Language, 2023
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative particles that appear in two different positions in the sentence. The negation system is argued to be an innovation that came about…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Language Acquisition, Indo European Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
Kayabasi, Demet; Gökgöz, Kadir – Language Learning and Development, 2023
We discuss the causative-inchoative alternation in Turkish Sign Language (Türk Isaret Dili -- TID), and the age of acquisition effects on multi-predicate, complex constructions that are observed in both causative and inchoative events. We present a picture-description task performed by 24 adult signers, half of which were exposed to TID from birth…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Attribution Theory, Pictorial Stimuli, Task Analysis
Kush, Dave; Dahl, Anne – Second Language Research, 2022
Norwegian allows filler-gap dependencies into embedded questions, which are islands for filler-gap dependency formation in English. We ask whether there is evidence that Norwegian learners of English transfer the functional structure that permits island violations from their first language (L1) to their second language (L2). In two acceptability…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training
Jeong, Hyeyun; Kim, Hojung – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study examines the learning patterns of intermediate and advanced Korean learners in the acquisition of causative expressions according to their proficiency and the causative sentence type. We measured their grammatical knowledge using three types of grammaticality judgment tasks (GJTs) and self-paced reading tasks (SPRTs) differing in time…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
Blackstock-Bernstein, Anne; Woodbridge, Amy; Bailey, Alison – Elementary School Journal, 2022
Students must use oral and written explanations to demonstrate their grasp of academic content, but little is known about the progression of elementary students' explanatory language, particularly oral language. The current study of 512 explanations produced by 128 third- through sixth-grade students examines whether children's oral explanations…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Oral Language, Written Language, Vocabulary
Wu, Mien-Jen; Ionin, Tania – Second Language Research, 2022
This article investigates whether explicit instruction can affect second language (L2) competence in the domain of English quantifier scope. An intervention study was conducted with L1-Mandarin L2-English learners in order to examine (1) whether these learners can learn inverse scope for the structure on which they are instructed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Generalization, Linguistic Competence
Socher, Michaela; Ingo, Elisabeth – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2023
This study investigated if the language profiles of prelingually deaf children with bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) and children with typical hearing (TH) matched on their quantitative score on clinical spoken expressive language tasks differed in terms of sentence complexity, sentence length, and severity of grammatical errors. No significant…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Grammar, Deafness, Assistive Technology