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Yang Li; Aina Casaponsa; Manon Jones; Guillaume Thierry – Language Learning, 2024
Chinese learners of English often experience difficulty with English tense presumably because their native language is tenseless. We showed that this difficulty relates to their incomplete conceptual representations for tense rather than their poor grammatical rule knowledge. Participants made acceptability judgments on sentences describing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
Yanyu Guo; Boping Yuan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This article reports on an empirical study of L3 Mandarin, aiming to shed light on transfer effects and their interaction with other factors throughout the L3 acquisition trajectory. A fill-in-the-blank task was employed to examine L2 and L3 acquisition of three types of Mandarin sentence-final particle clusters. Participants in the study were…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Sino Tibetan Languages, English (Second Language), English
Jingjing Xu – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Acquisition of the perfective marker "-le" in Mandarin Chinese is a daunting task for second language learners. To date, there has been no consensus on what it is about "-le" that makes it such a challenge to learners. This study investigates the acquisition of "-le" from both a lexical perspective and a discourse…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Mandarin Chinese
Kaiying Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The field of Linguistics has long been interested in the verb meanings of intransitive verbs and their argument structure, specifically the breakdown of intransitive verbs into unaccusative and unergative verb types. Despite extensive research, a universally applicable explanation for this breakdown remains elusive due in part to the variability…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Fred Zenker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the interplay between the implicit knowledge that learners have of a nonnative language and their processing of that language, examining two types of relative clauses (RCs) in English: gapped RCs (e.g., "the man that they hired") and resumptive RCs (e.g., *"the man that they hired him").…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Native Speakers, Adults, English (Second Language)
Kyle Robert Swanson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Adult learners of a new language (L2) tend not to achieve target-like knowledge and performance, so the cognitive status of L2s has long been debated. While monolingual native (L1) speakers robustly apply their grammatical knowledge to input as it unfolds, there are competing claims about whether L2 speakers also do so reflexively (Dekydtspotter,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Mandarin Chinese, English (Second Language)
Jack Dempsey; Kiel Christianson; Julie A. Van Dyke – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Typical print formatting provides no information regarding the linguistic features of a text, although texts vary considerably with respect to grammatical complexity and readability. Complex texts may be particularly challenging for individuals with weak language knowledge, such as English language learners. This paper investigates the usefulness…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Native Language
Lauren Covey; Robert Fiorentino; Alison Gabriele – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates the processing of "wh"-dependencies in English by native speakers and advanced Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners. We examined processing at a filled gap site that was in a licit position (non-island) or located inside an island, a grammatically unlicensed position. Natives showed N400 in the non-island condition,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing
Alaa Al-Maani; Shayne Sloggett; Nino Grillo; Heather Marsden – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study expands on previous research into filler-gap dependency processing in second language (L2) English, by means of a replication of Canales's (2012) self-paced reading study. Canales, among others, found that advanced L2-English speakers exhibited the same processing behavior that Stowe (1986) found for native English processing: On…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Yunchuan Chen; Tingting Huan – Second Language Research, 2024
Quantifier-Negation sentences allow an inverse scope reading in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This difference can be attributed to the underlying syntactic difference: the negation word can be raised at Logical Form in Tibetan but not in Chinese. This study investigated whether Chinese-dominant Tibetan heritage speakers know such difference. We…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Sino Tibetan Languages, Native Language, Reading Processes
Tsai, Pei-Shu – SAGE Open, 2023
Translation of scientific texts has been regarded as having the least freedom and variety in rendition; however, inconsistencies occur when translators work with two language systems that differ in reference to time, such as between Chinese and English. Tense is one of the core components of English grammar, but such information is not apparent in…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ruoyu Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Growing up in the digital era, young children are exposed to numerous educational applications and programs, some with well-designed curricula and others focused more on entertainment or game-like qualities. With the increasing popularity of mobile language-learning applications among young children, this dissertation raises a crucial question: do…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Animation
Chia-Hsuan Liao; Ellen Lau – Second Language Research, 2024
Event concepts of common verbs (e.g. "eat," "sleep") can be broadly shared across languages, but a given language's rules for subcategorization are largely arbitrary and vary substantially across languages. When subcategorization information does not match between first language (L1) and second language (L2), how does this…
Descriptors: Verbs, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, English
Xiaoyu Zhang; Sang-Gu Kang – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Dative alternation between prepositional and double object datives has been a popular topic in second language (L2) acquisition, but only few studies deal with discourse constraints such as the "given-before-new" principle, or given-new (GN) ordering, which describes the tendency to place given information before new information. The…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Hunter Nicholas McKenzie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English ditransitive verbs show a complex alternation between the double object construction (DOC, (1)) and prepositional object datives (POD, (2)). This dissertation examines the acquisition, representation, and learnability of the dative alternation among L2 English learners, presenting experimental data from participants with L1 backgrounds of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Grammar