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Chareonkul, Chanakarn; Wijitsopon, Raksangob – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2020
One of the reasons why EFL learners have difficulties with the English present perfect tense is that little attention has been paid to the relationship between patterns and meanings of the tense (Yoshimura et al., 2014). To fill this gap, the present study takes a corpus-driven approach to the pattern-meaning interface of the present perfect,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Chareonkul, Chanakarn; Raksangob Wijitsopon – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2019
The present study adopts a corpus-driven perspective to an analysis of the 'current relevance' meaning, a central meaning of the present perfect, in general and textbook corpora. The term 'current relevance' refers to a meaning of the present perfect, in which a past action or event is shown to be connected with the present time in some ways. The…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Morphemes, Grammar, Textbooks
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Elena Zaretsky; Susie Russak – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Acquisition of oral English verb morphology presents difficulties for bilinguals, learners of EFL and English-speaking monolingual children with specific language impairment. This study aimed to identify challenging English verb inflections among sixth grade speakers of Arabic (N = 85) and Hebrew (N = 86) using an elicited oral narrative task, and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Arabic, Hebrew
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Bassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
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Choi, Sea Hee; Ionin, Tania; Zhu, Yeqiu – Second Language Research, 2018
This study investigates the second language (L2) acquisition of the English count/mass distinction by speakers of Korean and Mandarin Chinese, with a focus on the semantics of atomicity. It is hypothesized that L1-Korean and L1-Mandarin L2-English learners are influenced by atomicity in the use of the count/mass morphosyntax in English. This…
Descriptors: Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Kashiwagi, Kazuko; Ito, Yukiko – English Language Teaching, 2017
Even young EFL learners who have not yet learned L2 grammar will notice language patterns if, when retrieving exemplars ("item-based patterns"), they succeed in making form-meaning connections (FMCs). Item-based patterns, termed formulaic sequences (FS), serve as a basis for creative constructions. Although learners are implicitly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hauser, Eric – Language Learning, 2013
This article reports on how, against a background of relatively stable patterns of second language negation, a Japanese-speaking adult learning English made use of a negative formula, "I don't know," and how, in and through interaction, analyzed it into its component parts and began using "don't" more productively.…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Japanese
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Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor; Hadieh, Areen; Ravid, Dorit – Language Learning, 2012
The study examined the acquisition of two morphological procedures of noun pluralization in Palestinian Arabic: "Sound Feminine Plural" (SFP) and "Broken Plural" (BP). We tested if noun pluralization was affected by (1) the type of morphological procedure, (2) the degree of familiarity with the singular noun stem, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Morphemes, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language)
Dikilitas, Kenan; Demir, Bora – Online Submission, 2012
This qualitative study investigates discourse-level patterns typically employed by a Turkish lecturer based on the syntactic patterns found in the collected data. More specifically, the study aims to reveal how different native and non-native speakers of English perceive discourse patterns used by a non-native lecturer teaching in English. The…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Oral English, College Faculty
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Feldman, Laurie Beth; Kostic, Aleksandar; Basnight-Brown, Dana M.; Durdevic, Dusica Filipovic; Pastizzo, Matthew John – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
The authors compared performance on two variants of the primed lexical decision task to investigate morphological processing in native and non-native speakers of English. They examined patterns of facilitation on present tense targets. Primes were regular (billed-BILL) past tense formations and two types of irregular past tense forms that varied…
Descriptors: Verbs, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), English
Choe, Mun Hong – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study discusses cognitive processes when speakers produce language in real time, with its focus on cross-linguistic differences in the procedural aspect of language use. It demonstrates that the syntactic characteristics of a language shape the speakers' overall process of sentence planning and production: how they construct sentential…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Nouns, Comparative Analysis
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Murphy, Victoria A.; Hayes, Jennifer – Language Learning, 2010
Native English speakers tend to exclude regular plural inflection when producing English noun-noun compounds (e.g., "rat-eater" not "rats-eater") while allowing irregular plural inflection within compounds (e.g., "mice-eater") (Clahsen, 1995; Gordon, 1985; Hayes, Smith & Murphy, 2005; Lardiere, 1995; Murphy, 2000). Exposure to the input alone has…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Nouns, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
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Haznedar, Belma – Second Language Research, 2007
The aim of this article is two-fold: to test the Aspect Hypothesis, according to which the early use of tense-aspect morphology patterns by semantic/aspectual features of verbs, and Tense is initially defective (e.g. Antinucci and Miller, 1976; Bloom et al., 1980; Andersen and Shirai, 1994; 1996; Robison, 1995; Shirai and Andersen, 1995;…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Child Language
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Peters, Ann M.; Menn, Lise – Language, 1993
A microgenetic approach to studying grammatical morpheme learning uses longitudinal data from two children learning English in different ways. Eight general attributes of morphological systems are proposed that will promote or inhibit the emergence of filler syllables during development. (Contains 86 references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Child Language, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Patterns
Gerbault, Jeannine – 1978
This paper summarizes the results of a longitudinal study of a child native speaker of French acquiring English. The observation period covered the child's progress from age 4 years, 9 months to age 5 years, 8 months. An analysis was made of the acquisition of the interrogative and negative structures and of nine grammatical morphemes. In…
Descriptors: Child Language, Descriptive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
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