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Boone, Griet; De Wilde, Vanessa; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This longitudinal study explored the roles of item- and learner-related variables in L2 learners' development of productive collocation knowledge (L1 = Dutch; L2 = German; NLearners= 50). Learners' form recall knowledge of 35 target collocations was measured three times over a 3-year period. The item-related variables investigated were L1-L2…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Indo European Languages, Phrase Structure, German
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García-Amaya, Lorenzo; Lang, Sean – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This article investigates the effects of long-term bilingualism on the production of filled pauses (FPs; e.g., "uh," "um," "eh," "em") in the speech of Afrikaans-Spanish bilinguals from Patagonia, Argentina. The instrumental analysis draws from a corpus of sociolinguistic interviews obtained from three…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Indo European Languages, Spanish, Computational Linguistics
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Römer, Ute; Berger, Cynthia M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Based on writing produced by second language learners at different proficiency levels (CEFR A1 to C1), we adopted a usage-based approach (Ellis, Römer, & O'Donnell, 2016; Tyler & Ortega, 2018) to investigate how German and Spanish learner knowledge of 19 English verb-argument constructions (VACs; e.g., "V with n," illustrated by…
Descriptors: German, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction