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The Strength of Cross-Language Interdependence for Listening Comprehension Proficiency in Turkish-Dutch Emergent Bilinguals: Testing Three Hypotheses
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Sierens, Sven; Van Gorp, Koen; Slembrouck, Stef; Van Avermaet, Piet – Language Learning, 2021
This study aimed to test three competing hypotheses concerning the strength of the cross-language relationship in listening comprehension proficiency in emergent bilinguals: Cummins's developmental linguistic interdependence hypothesis, Proctor, August, Snow, and Barr's interdependence continuum hypothesis, and Goodrich, Lonigan, Kleuver, and…
Descriptors: Turkish, Indo European Languages, Listening Comprehension, Language Proficiency
A Usage-Based Approach to Recursion in Sentence Processing
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Christiansen, Morten H.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Language Learning, 2009
Most current approaches to linguistic structure suggest that language is recursive, that recursion is a fundamental property of grammar, and that independent performance constraints limit recursive abilities that would otherwise be infinite. This article presents a usage-based perspective on recursive sentence processing, in which recursion is…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Language Usage, Grammar
Sensitivity to Violations of Gender Agreement in Native and Nonnative Spanish: An Eye-Movement Investigation
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Keating, Gregory D. – Language Learning, 2009
This article reports the results of an eye-tracking experiment that investigated the effects of structural distance on readers' sensitivity to violations of Spanish gender agreement during online sentence comprehension. The study tracked the eye movements of native Spanish speakers and English-speaking learners of Spanish as they read sentences…
Descriptors: Sentences, Eye Movements, Nouns, Human Body
Is Implicational Generalization Unidirectional and Maximal? Evidence from Relativization Instruction in a Second Language.
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Hamilton, Robert L. – Language Learning, 1994
Analyses of sentence combination data from 33 adult learners of English as a Second Language instructed in sentence combination tasks yielded inconclusive results as to whether implicational generalization (IG) is unidirectional to hierarchy levels implicated by the instructed level. The results suggest that IG is clearly not uniformly maximal to…
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Generalization, Language Research
Universals of Word Formation Processes: Noun Incorporation in the Acquisition of Samoan as a Second Language.
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Robinson, Peter – Language Learning, 1994
Examines the influence of a proposed implicational hierarchy and constraints of Universal Grammar on acquisition of noun incorporation processes by 29 adult learners of Samoan, compared to the performance of a control group of 11 native Samoan speakers. Methodology involved reaction time, grammaticality judgment, and response certainty measures.…
Descriptors: Grammatical Acceptability, Lexicology, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages)
Theories of Language Acquisition in Relation to Beginning Reading Instruction
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Wardhaugh, Ronald – Language Learning, 1971
Research funded by a contract from the U.S. Office of Education to Rutgers University. (DS)
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Language Experience Approach, Language Research, Learning Theories
Interference and Natural Language Processing in Second Language Acquisition.
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Tarallo, Fernando; Myhill, John – Language Learning, 1983
A study of English speakers' acquisition of relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, German, and Portugese is reported. Various structures were tested to separate interlanguage features attributable to first language interference from those universal to second language acquisition. Application of an accessibility hierarchy theory and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), German
Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning: Assertion versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition.
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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977
The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)
The Researcher Gave the Subject a Test about Himself: Problems of Ambiguity and Preference in the Investigation of Reflexive Binding.
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White, Lydia; And Others – Language Learning, 1997
Studies on second-language acquisition of reflexives have experienced difficulties assessing learners' knowledge of the binding principles because of problems associated with ambiguous sentences where there is more than one antecedent for a reflexive. In this study, English-as-a-Second-Language students were tested using a variety of sentence…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Ambiguity, Context Clues, English (Second Language)