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Shu-Ling Wu; Takako Nunome; Jun Wang – Second Language Research, 2024
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu's (2016) investigation on motion…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Michael Obiri-Yeboah – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation documents and analyzes phonetic and phonological features of Gua, an under-documented, understudied and nearly-endangered Guang language, spoken in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The language has two dialects, Anum and Boso. The data for this dissertation is from the Boso dialect spoken in the Boso community. The dissertation…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Vowels, Oral Language
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Lidia Federica Mazzitelli – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2020
This paper provides an introduction to Lakurumau, a previously undescribed and undocumented Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea. The first part of the paper is a guide to the Lakurumau documentation corpus, deposited in the ELAR archive. The participants and the content of the deposit, the technology used for recording, and the ethical protocols…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Native Language, Language Classification
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M. Stratton, James – Modern Language Journal, 2022
Although English and German are both Germanic languages, due to various historical changes, many of their cognates are no longer easily recognizable. This study examined whether knowledge of language history can be beneficial to learners when learning English-German cognates. Thirty-five English-speaking second language (L2) learners of…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German
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Hoole, Philip; Bombien, Lasse – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use prosodic and syllable-structure variation to probe the underlying representation of laryngeal kinematics in languages traditionally considered to differ in voicing typology (German vs. Dutch and French). Method: Transillumination and videofiberendoscopic filming were used to investigate the devoicing…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
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Schroeder, Leila – Global Education Review, 2020
Even a quick glance at international data reveals something troubling: There is an increasing economic and educational gap between Africa and the rest of the world. If we look just a bit deeper, we find that economic and educational stagnation may simply be the inevitable outcomes of broad educational failure for millions of rural African…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Economic Development, Rural Areas, Academic Failure
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Santizo, Isabelle Poupard – Applied Language Learning, 2017
This quantitative study focuses on the relationship between foreign language learners' aptitude and proficiency test scores. Four groups of 136 beginning students received six months of Initial Acquisition Training (IAT) in four different language categories, according to the level of complexity for an English speaker: French (Category I),…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Aptitude, Language Proficiency, French
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Hijazo-Gascón, Alberto – Language Learning Journal, 2018
This article explores the second language acquisition of motion events, with particular regard to cross-linguistic influence between first and second languages. Oral narratives in Spanish as a second language by native speakers of French, German and Italian are compared, together with narratives by native Spanish speakers. Previous analysis on the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Italian
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Slavkov, Nikolay – Second Language Research, 2015
This article investigates spoken productions of complex questions with long-distance wh-movement in the L2 English of speakers whose first language is (Canadian) French or Bulgarian. Long-distance wh-movement is of interest as it can be argued that it poses difficulty in acquisition due to its syntactic complexity and related high processing load.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Linguistic Theory
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Altinkamis, N. Feyza; Kern, Sophie; Sofu, Hatice – First Language, 2014
The main goal of this article is to study the respective role of language typology and context on the noun to verb asymmetry in caregiver speech. The speech of 20 French- and 20 Turkish-speaking mothers addressed to their children in two different situations (book-reading and toy-play) were analysed in terms of noun to verb ratio as well as in…
Descriptors: Context Effect, French, Mothers, Toys
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Fallah, Nader; Jabbari, Ali Akbar; Fazilatfar, Ali Mohammad – Second Language Research, 2016
This study investigates the role of previously acquired linguistic systems, Mazandarani and Persian, in the acquisition of third language (L3) English at the initial stages. The data have been obtained from 31 students (age 13-14 years), testing the placement of attributive possessives in a grammaticality judgment task, an element rearrangement…
Descriptors: Syntax, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J. – Language Learning, 2013
Researching the longitudinal development of second language (L2) learners is essential to understanding influences on their success. This 7-year study of oral skills in adult immigrant learners of English as a second language evaluated comprehensibility, fluency, and accentedness in first-language (L1) Mandarin and Slavic language speakers. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Stengers, Helene; Boers, Frank; Housen, Alex; Eyckmans, June – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2011
This paper investigates the extent to which productive use of formulaic sequences by intermediate students of two typologically different languages, i.e., English and Spanish, is associated with their oral proficiency in these languages. Previous research (e.g., Boers et al., "Language Teaching Research" 10: 245-261, 2006) has shown that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Second Language Learning, Language Patterns, English (Second Language)
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Van der Slik, Frans W. P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This study reports on the impact of 11 West European first languages on the acquisition of Dutch. Using data from nearly 6,000 second-language learners, it was found that the mother tongue had a rather large impact on two language skills--namely, oral and written proficiency--as measured by the scores received by these learners on the State…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Language Classification, Writing Skills
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Slobin, Dan I. – Sign Language Studies, 2008
Grammars of signed languages tend to be based on grammars established for written languages, particularly the written language in use in the surrounding hearing community of a sign language. Such grammars presuppose categories of discrete elements which are combined into various sorts of structures. Recent analyses of signed languages go beyond…
Descriptors: Written Language, Sign Language, Foreign Countries, Grammar
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