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Direct linkPadraic Monaghan; Heather Murray; Heiko Holz – Language Learning, 2024
To acquire language, learners have to map the language onto the environment, but languages vary as to how much information they include to constrain how a sentence relates to the world. We investigated the conditions under which information within the language and the environment is combined for learning. In a cross-situational artificial language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Environmental Influences, Context Effect, Artificial Languages
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
Comeaux, Ian; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 2018
Visual input enhancement (VIE) increases the salience of grammatical forms, potentially facilitating acquisition through attention mechanisms. Native English speakers were exposed to an artificial language containing four linguistic cues (verb agreement, case marking, animacy, word order), with morphological cues either unmarked, marked in the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Grammar, Native Speakers, English
Jansen, Louise – Language Learning, 2008
This article presents the results from a cross-sectional study that tests predictions of processability theory (PT) regarding the acquisition of German word order. Spontaneous production data were elicited from 21 tutored second language learners of German who are native speakers of English. Each learner engaged in a 45-min informal conversation…
Descriptors: Word Order, German, Native Speakers, Prediction
Prat-Sala, Merce; Hahn, Ulrike – Language Learning, 2007
In an investigation of discourse sensitivity, Catalan-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years were asked two different questions in a picture description task. One was a wide-focus question ("What is happening?"); the other was a narrow-focus question ("What is happening to 'the patient'?"). Children of all age groups displayed sensitivity to the…
Descriptors: Word Order, Child Language, Questioning Techniques, Uncommonly Taught Languages
Peer reviewedHeilenman, L. Kathy; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 1993
The comprehension processing strategies of 15 monolingual English and 8 bilingual French native speakers were compared with those of 112 second-language learners of French, using stimuli containing word order and clitic pronoun cues in French. Results indicated differential dependence on cue use by native speakers. (Contains 97 references.)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Context Clues, French
