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Pietro Pesce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present dissertation intends to investigate the syntactic nature and L2-acquisition of passive sentence structure in two Romance varieties, Italian and Spanish. First, I will present an analytic proposal couched within the Generative Approach (Chomsky, 1957, and subsequent work); from there, and following Perlmutter and Postal's (1977)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Syntax, Spanish
Barachetti, Chiara; Majorano, Marinella; Rossi, Germano; Antolini, Elena; Zerbato, Rosanna; Lavelli, Manuela – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The relationship between first and second language in early vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children is still debated in the literature. This study compared the expressive vocabulary of 39 equivalently low-SES two-year-old bilingual children from immigrant families with different heritage languages (Romanian vs. Nigerian English) and the same…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Vocabulary Development, Romance Languages, Italian
Lukas Eibensteiner – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Research has shown that non-native background languages (L2s) can play an important role in the acquisition of an L3/L[subscript n]. However, only a few studies have focussed on positive transfer from an L2 to an L3/Ln in the context of multilingual language acquisition of Romance past tenses. The present study therefore analyses the acquisition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, German, English, Romance Languages
Annie Grey Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation analyzes the production and perception of lexical stress in trilinguals' first, second, and third languages (L1, L2, and L3) to evaluate how the cue-weighting transfer hypothesis applies to L3 acquisition. According to this hypothesis, acoustic cues to stress have different weights across languages, and results from both…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Acoustics, Cues
?imon, Simona; Stoian, Claudia E.; Dejica-Car?i?, Anca; Kriston, Andrea – SAGE Open, 2021
The era of globalization has led to frequent communication among people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, carried out usually in English, the modern lingua franca. English has influenced the languages of the world, which have started to borrow words in order to keep up with progress and internationalization. Anglicisms are used…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Official Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Multilingualism
Gampe, Anja; Hartmann, Leonie; Daum, Moritz M. – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Bilingual children show a number of advantages in the domain of communication. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether differences in interactions are present before productive language skills emerge. For a duration of 5 minutes, 64 parents and their 14-month-old infants explored a decorated room together. The coordination of their…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Barón, Júlia; Roquet, Helena; Evnitskaya, Natalia; Navarro, Noelia – English Language Teaching, 2020
This study aims to explore how the speech act of requesting is performed in Catalan (L1), English (L1) and EFL classrooms by pre-primary teachers. The study examines transcripts of 40-minute video-recorded lessons (six in Catalan/L1, six in English/FL, and three in English/L1) collected in several pre-primary schools in Catalonia, Spain. Recall…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Preschool Education, Romance Languages, Native Language
Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia – European Journal of Higher Education, 2020
In this contribution, the self-reported linguistic practices of researchers engaged in an international research project are analysed and discussed. These researchers constitute a community of practice of intercomprehension, using mostly romance languages to communicate and, at the same time, also researching the phenomena. The data was collected…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Usage, Profiles, Research Projects
Wright, Laura – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This paper is about identifying a nuance of social meaning which, I demonstrate, was conveyed in the Early and Late Modern period by the suffix "-oon." The history of non-native suffix "-oon" is presented by means of assembling non-native suffix "-oon" vocabulary in date order and sorting according to etymology. It…
Descriptors: Modern Languages, English, Suffixes, Etymology
Poeste, Meike; Müller, Natascha; Arnaus Gil, Laia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
Acquisitionists generally assume a relation between code-mixing in young bilingual and trilingual children and language dominance. In our cross-sectional study we investigated the possible relation between code-mixing and language dominance in 122 children raised in Spain or Germany. They were bilingual, trilingual or multilingual, the latter…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Laurene Glimois – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Bilingualism is associated with lifelong cognitive benefits that correlate with facilitated achievements in subsequent language learning. Second language (L2) instruction as well can promote the development of cognitive abilities involved in language learning, and among these, L2 input processing. Crucial to L2 acquisition, input processing is the…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
Cioaca, Valentin Sergiu; Dascalu, Mihai; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Numerous approaches have been introduced to automate the process of text summarization, but only few can be easily adapted to multiple languages. This paper introduces a multilingual text processing pipeline integrated in the open-source "ReaderBench" framework, which can be retrofit to cover more than 50 languages. While considering the…
Descriptors: Documentation, Computer Software, Open Source Technology, Algorithms
Soler, Josep; Roberts, Tim – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2019
The authors investigate the sociolinguistic dynamics in multilingual families from the point of view of speakers' linguistic trajectories, ideologies, and repertoires. Drawing on interview data from intermarried couples of different generational and linguistic profiles of two families in Sweden, the authors examine how speakers' lived experience…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Language Usage, Grandparents, Parent Attitudes
Guillot, Marie-Noëlle – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2019
This article focuses on linguistic and cultural representation in AVT as a medium of intercultural literacy. It has two objectives: it puts to the test increasingly accepted assumptions about AVT modalities' distinctive meaning potential and expressive capacity, with a case study of communicative practices in their representation, via AVT, in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intercultural Communication, Literacy, Cultural Awareness
Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Haman, Ewa; de López, Kristine Jensen; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Szczerbinski, Marcin; van Hout, Angeliek; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Gavarró, Anna; Hobbs, Erin; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Katsos, Napoleon; Kunnari, Sari; Nitsiou, Chrisa; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Parramon, Xavier; Sauerland, Uli; Torn-Leesik, Reeli; van der Lely, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This cross-linguistic study evaluates children's understanding of passives in 11 typologically different languages: Catalan, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish. The study intends to determine whether the reported gaps between the comprehension of active and passive and between short and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition