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Words Go Together Like 'Bread and Butter': The Rapid, Automatic Acquisition of Lexical Patterns
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Conklin, Kathy; Carrol, Gareth – Applied Linguistics, 2021
While it is possible to express the same meaning in different ways ('bread and butter' versus 'butter and bread'), we tend to say things in the same way. As much as half of spoken discourse is made up of "formulaic language" or linguistic patterns. Despite its prevalence, little is known about how the processing system treats novel…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Phrase Structure, Language Processing
Modelling Second Language Performance: Integrating Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency, and Lexis
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Skehan, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 2009
Complexity, accuracy, and fluency have proved useful measures of second language performance. The present article will re-examine these measures themselves, arguing that fluency needs to be rethought if it is to be measured effectively, and that the three general measures need to be supplemented by measures of lexical use. Building upon this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Fluency, Difficulty Level
A Bilingual Production Model: Levelt's "Speaking" Model Approach.
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De Bot, Kees – Applied Linguistics, 1992
A description is given of a model of the bilingual speaker. The model is based on Levelt's (1989) "speaking model," which sketches a framework in which a number of highly autonomous information processing components are postulated. (56 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Language Processing
A Comparison between the Information-Processing and the Analysis/Control Approaches to Language Learning.
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Hulstijn, Jan – Applied Linguistics, 1990
The main difference between the information-processing and Bialystok's Analysis/Control framework for first and second language learning is in their focus. The latter is equipped mainly to account for performance differences on metalinguistic tasks, while the former accounts for construction and reconstruction of implicit and explicit mental…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition
The Dangers of Dichotomy: A Reply to Hulstijn.
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Bialystok, Ellen – Applied Linguistics, 1990
By presenting two theories of first and second language learning dichotomously, their fundamental similarity as information-processing theories is obscured and details of both positions are misrepresented. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition
Lexical Representation and Development in a Second Language.
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Jiang, Nan – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Outlines a psycholinguistic model of vocabulary acquisition in a second language in an instructional setting. The model is based on an understanding of the representational characteristics of the second language lexicon. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Error Patterns, Language Processing, Models
Communicative Competence, Language Proficiency, and Beyond.
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Spolsky, Bernard – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Describes attempts to formalize and characterize a theory of communicative competence, focusing on the advantages of a preference model (which identifies and grades learning variables in order of importance) and of models developed on the premise of parallel distributed processing (which suggest that such rule-based processing are in fact gross…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Processing