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Elizabeth Huntley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Sociolinguistic variation (SLV) entails that language is affected by social context (i.e. register, pragmatics). Interest in the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in a second language (L2-SLV), as a key component of communicative competence, has grown exponentially over the past thirty years (Geeslin & Long, 2014). Researchers have…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary Development
Holger Hopp; Jana Reifegerste; Michael T. Ullman – Language Learning, 2025
Second language (L2) grammar learning is difficult. Two frameworks--the psycholinguistic lexical bottleneck hypothesis and the neurocognitive declarative/procedural model--predict that faster L2 lexical processing should facilitate L2 incidental grammar learning. We tested these predictions in a pretest-posttest syntactic adaptation study of…
Descriptors: Lexicology, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Grammar
Yiyun Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
While most animals have communication systems, few exhibit such high-level of complexity as human languages. One central question of linguistics and cognitive science is to explore what human cognitive underpinnings and learning mechanisms are necessary to master such a complex system. One influential approach is Chomskyan generativism which…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Bias
Laurencio Tacoronte, Ariel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The use of discourse markers, like that of any other linguistic element, is dependent on contextual factors that interact at the specific moment of an enunciation. The utterers, with the need to adjust their language product to their communicative intentions, perform an analysis of the contextual, material, and relational factors involved,…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Context Effect, Articulation (Speech)
Emma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Heidari, Kamal – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The thrust of this study was to investigate the impact of learning styles in general and Field dependence/Independence (FD/I) in particular on the receptive/productive lexical performance of language learners. It aimed to check whether FD/I learners perform differently on receptive and productive vocabulary tests. To achieve this, first, 94…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Style, Receptive Language, Language Tests
Li, Ping; Xu, Qihui – Language Learning, 2023
The last two decades have seen a significant amount of interest in bilingual language learning and processing. A number of computational models have also been developed to account for bilingualism, with varying degrees of success. In this article, we first briefly introduce the significance of computational approaches to bilingual language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Fernando Senar; Judit Janés; Elisabet Serrat; Ángel Huguet – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis posits the existence of language features common to different languages. This set of characteristics, known as Common Underlying Proficiency (CUP), is a powerful facilitating agent in second language acquisition. Fluid intelligence (Gf), on the other hand, is the construct that encompasses those cognitive…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Intelligence, Language Acquisition
Riches, Nick; Letts, Carolyn; Awad, Hadeel; Ramsey, Rachel; Dabrowska, Ewa – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Collocations, e.g., apples and pears, hard worker, constitute an important avenue of linguistic enquiry straddling both grammar and the lexicon. They are sensitive to language experience, with adult L2 learners and children learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) exhibiting poor collocational knowledge. The current study piloted a novel…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Mavrou, Irini; Chao, Javier – Written Communication, 2023
This study examined whether the linguistic distance between the first (L1) and second (L2) language is a significant determinant of L2 writing skills of 292 adult immigrants from 39 different source countries, who were beginner learners of Spanish L2. Gender, age, length of residence in Spain, education level as a proxy for literacy skills in L1,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Immigrants, Spanish
Aktan-Erciyes, Asli – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This paper aims to discuss old and contemporary perspectives in understanding language acquisition taking into account the neural theory of language. Discussing a recent theory by Kuhl (2010), neural substrates of first language learning will be put forward (Berwick et al., 2013). Neural substrates of phonetic learning, word learning, sentence…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, Syntax, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory
K. K. Nair, Vishnu; Clark, Grace T.; Siyambalapitiya, Samantha; Reuterskiöld, Christina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Intervention, Language Processing
Shuxiao Gong – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Understanding how native speakers acquire the phonological patterns in their language is a key task for the field of phonology. Numerous studies have suggested that phonological learning is a biased process: certain phonological patterns are easily accessed and learned by the speakers, while others show acquisition difficulties. These differences…
Descriptors: Phonology, Native Speakers, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition
Larissa Maria Troesch; Jessica Carolyn Weiner-Bühler; Alexander Grob – Language Learning and Development, 2024
A good deal of research purports that bilingualism has a positive effect on some aspects of cognitive functioning. However, this effect is not consistent, and little research examines trajectories of cognitive skill development in bilingual children. Moreover, it remains unclear whether different types of bilingualism impact how cognitive…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Ability, German
Anastasia Paspali; Theodoros Marinis; Artemis Alexiadou – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
The acquisition of voice in Greek remains understudied, especially in heritage populations. Voice in Greek poses a challenging acquisition task for children due to its syncretism, marking various verb classes as well as passives. The present study explores the acquisition of anticausatives, reflexives, and passives in 6-to-8-year-old monolingual…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli, Preferences