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Archibald, John; Croteau, Nicole – Second Language Research, 2021
In this article we look at some of the structural properties of second language (L2) Japanese WH questions. In Japanese the WH words are licensed to remain "in situ" by the prosodic contiguity properties of the phrases which have no prosodic boundaries between the WH word and the question particle. In a rehearsed-reading, sentence…
Descriptors: Japanese, Grammar, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
McCoy, Lorraine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The second language (L2) acquisition of tense, aspect, and mood/modality (TAM) has been widely explored as it holds the promise of a better understanding of the L2 learners' linguistic competences, particularly semantically and morpho-syntactically. This study focuses on the acquisition of the subjunctive mood by L1 English learners of L2 French…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar, French
Paquot, Magali – Second Language Research, 2019
This article reports on the first results of a large-scale research programme that aims to define and circumscribe the construct of phraseological complexity and to theoretically and empirically demonstrate its relevance for second language theory. Within this broad agenda, the study has two main objectives. First, it investigates to what extent…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Language Research
Dengub, Evgeny – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Heritage speakers (HSs) of Russian in the United States form a very complex and diverse group of learners. Research in heritage linguistics has examined key parameters of the HSs' oral production. Important work has been done in heritage language (HL) pragmatics, morphology, and lexicon. However, very few studies have been conducted to…
Descriptors: Russian, Accuracy, Language Fluency, Heritage Education

Rutherford, William E. – Language Learning, 1984
Discusses the current approaches to interlanguage syntax, focusing on the goal of finding consistency and pattern in syntactic variation. Some themes contributing to descriptive approaches include: the transition from morphosyntax acquisition studies to those of more complex syntax, the emergence of syntax from discourse, explicitness, and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Grammar, Interlanguage

Jagtman, Margriet; Bongaerts, Theo – Second Language Research, 1994
Discusses the design and use of the Computer Model for Language Acquisition (COMOLA), a computer program designed to analyze syntactic development in second-language learners by examining their oral utterances. Also compares COMOLA to the recently developed Computer-Aides Linguistic Analysis (COALA) program. (MDM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Development, Computer Uses in Education, Discourse Analysis
Rado, Marta; Foster, Lois – 1987
Data collected in the course of conversations are used to compare some morpho-syntactic and discourse features of the language of non-English-speaking-background (NESB) and English-speaking-background (ESB) students and their parents. Particular emphasis is given to the processing task facing NESB children if addressed by their parents in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
Processing Transfer: Language-Specific Processing Strategies as a Source of Interlanguage Variation.

Harrington, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
A sentence interpretation experiment conducted with university-age native English speakers, Japanese English as a second language (ESL) speakers, and native Japanese speakers (N=12 per group) suggested caution in attempting to typify languages on the basis of processing strategies drawn from probabilistic tendencies evident in grouped data.…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English
Ulijn, Jan M.; Strother, Judith B. – ESP Journal, 1987
Forty-eight American (L1) and 48 Dutch students (L2), half of whom had computer science backgrounds and half of whom did not, were tested for their use of either scientific text (ST) syntactic structures or the less difficult common syntax when writing technical discourse (in Appendix). Results indicate that both L1 and L2 technical writers wrote…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Science Education, Dutch, English (Second Language)
Elo, Anja – 1985
A study of the interlanguage of bilinguals and multilinguals compared the oral French proficiency of 20 native Swedish-speaking and 20 Finnish-speaking university students as evidenced in error patterns in oral tests. With the exception of phonological and phonetic errors in pronunciation, errors were classified by word class (article, noun,…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana; Olshtain, Elite – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1986
Data collected from both native and non-native speakers' linguistic performances in five request and seven apology situations revealed a systematic difference in length of utterance in speech acts by non-native speakers as compared to native speakers. Deviation from native norms of utterance length can cause pragmatic failure in several ways.…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context