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Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Westergaard, Marit – Language Learning, 2023
Over the last two decades, the question of to which linguistic cues learners pay attention when they decode a new language has been subject to controversy in the field of third language (L3) acquisition. In this article, we present an artificial language learning experiment that investigated how lexical and syntactic similarities between an…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Contrastive Linguistics
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Nekrasova, Tatiana M. – Language Learning, 2009
The purpose of the present study is to contribute to the ongoing debate about the use of lexical bundles by first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of English. The study consists of two experiments that examined whether L1 and L2 English speakers displayed any knowledge of lexical bundles as holistic units and whether their knowledge was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Native Speakers, English, Phrase Structure