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Lew, Wai Man Adrienne – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2020
Linguistic geniuses such as Heinrich Schliemann have long fascinated many with their exceptional capabilities to master multiple languages on top of their own mother tongues. These individuals are believed to be able to extract the probabilistic, abstract patterns underlying a target form's linguistic and frequency distribution in second language…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Patterns
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Gerken, LouAnn; Quam, Carolyn; Goffman, Lisa – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Beginning with the classic work of Shepard, Hovland, & Jenkins (1961), Type II visual patterns (e.g., exemplars are large white squares OR small black triangles) have held a special place in investigations of human learning. Recent research on Type II "linguistic" patterns has shown that they are relatively frequent across languages…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Patterns, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
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Jesus, Alice; Marques, Rui; Santos, Ana Lúcia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2019
This article focuses on the acquisition of mood in early complement clauses of European Portuguese (EP). Two semantic features are involved in the EP mood system--epistemicity and veridicality. An elicited production task administered to 80 children aged 4 to 9 showed that, even though children use the subjunctive in [-- epistemic] contexts, the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Portuguese, Verbs, Preschool Children
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Hendricks, Alison Eisel; Miller, Karen; Jackson, Carrie N. – Language Learning and Development, 2018
While previous sociolinguistic research has demonstrated that children faithfully acquire probabilistic input constrained by sociolinguistic and linguistic factors (e.g., gender and socioeconomic status), research suggests children regularize inconsistent input-probabilistic input that is not sociolinguistically constrained (e.g., Hudson Kam &…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input
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Kolodny, Oren; Lotem, Arnon; Edelman, Shimon – Cognitive Science, 2015
We introduce a set of biologically and computationally motivated design choices for modeling the learning of language, or of other types of sequential, hierarchically structured experience and behavior, and describe an implemented system that conforms to these choices and is capable of unsupervised learning from raw natural-language corpora. Given…
Descriptors: Grammar, Natural Language Processing, Computer Mediated Communication, Graphs
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Aslin, Richard N.; Newport, Elissa L. – Language Learning, 2014
In the past 15 years, a substantial body of evidence has confirmed that a powerful distributional learning mechanism is present in infants, children, adults and (at least to some degree) in nonhuman animals as well. The present article briefly reviews this literature and then examines some of the fundamental questions that must be addressed for…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Grammar, Language Research, Computational Linguistics
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Muench, Kristin L.; Creel, Sarah C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Learners frequently experience phonologically inconsistent input, such as exposure to multiple accents. Yet, little is known about the consequences of phonological inconsistency for language learning. The current study examines vocabulary acquisition with different degrees of phonological inconsistency, ranging from no inconsistency (e.g., both…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vocabulary Development, Learning Problems, Linguistic Input
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Wonnacott, Elizabeth; Newport, Elissa L.; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Cognitive Psychology, 2008
Adult knowledge of a language involves correctly balancing lexically-based and more language-general patterns. For example, verb argument structures may sometimes readily generalize to new verbs, yet with particular verbs may resist generalization. From the perspective of acquisition, this creates significant learnability problems, with some…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Cues, Semantics
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Narasimhan, Bhuvana; Dimroth, Christine – Cognition, 2008
In expressing rich, multi-dimensional thought in language, speakers are influenced by a range of factors that influence the ordering of utterance constituents. A fundamental principle that guides constituent ordering in adults has to do with information status, the accessibility of referents in discourse. Typically, adults order previously…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phrase Structure, Child Language, Caregivers
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Guasti, Maria Teresa; Gavarro, Anna; de Lange, Joke; Caprin, Claudia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
Article omission is known to be a feature of early grammar, although it does not affect all child languages to the same extent. In this article we analyze the production of articles by 12 children, 4 speakers of Catalan, 4 speakers of Italian, and 4 speakers of Dutch. We consider the results in the light of (i) the adult input the children are…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Syntax, Form Classes (Languages)
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Egi, Takako – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Researchers have claimed that recasts might be ambiguous as feedback. Because recasts serve a dual function, as both feedback and conversational response, learners might not always interpret them as feedback (e.g., Lyster & Ranta, 1997). This study explores how learners interpret recasts they notice (as responses to content, negative evidence,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Barrett, Martyn; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1991
Followup to earlier report that focused on initial uses of first 10 words produced by 4 children is presented. Results of analysis of subsequent use of these 40 words is presented. Findings indicate that the role of linguistic input in early lexical development may decline sharply once a child has established initial uses for words. (24…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Infants, Language Patterns
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Gaser, Michael; Smith, Linda B. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1998
Proposes an alternative account of the child's learning of nouns and adjectives that relies on properties of the semantic categories to be learned and of the word-learning task itself. In five experiments, a simple connectionist network was trained to label input objects in particular contexts; the network learned categories resembling nouns…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
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Braidi, Susan M. – Language Learning, 1995
Reviews research findings on second-language (L2) interaction from the perspective of syntactic development. The article argues that better understanding of the role of negotiated interaction in L2 syntactic development requires examining the specific grammatical structures in interaction guided by the criteria of relevance, availability,…
Descriptors: College Students, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Grammar
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Shi, Rushen; Morgan, James L.; Allopenna, Paul – Journal of Child Language, 1998
Maternal infant-directed speech in Mandarin Chinese and Turkish (two mother-child dyads each) was examined to see if cues exist in input that might assist infants' assignments of words to lexical and functional item categories. Results show that sets of distributional, phonological, and acoustic cues distinguishing lexical and functional items are…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Grammar, Infants
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