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Wagner, Thomas – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This paper examines possible psycholinguistic mechanisms governing stem vowel changes of irregular verbs in intermediate English learners of German as a foreign language (GFL). In Experiment 1, nonce-infinitives embedded in an authentic fictional text had to be inflected for German preterite, thus testing possible analogy-driven pattern…
Descriptors: Verbs, German, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Amenós-Pons, José; Ahern, Aoife; Gujarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This paper examines the process of acquiring L2s that are closely related to the L1 through data on how adult French speakers learning L2 Spanish in a formal setting develop knowledge and use of past tenses in this L2. We consider the role of transfer and simplification in acquiring mental representations of the L2 grammar, specifically in the…
Descriptors: Native Language, French, Transfer of Training, Spanish