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Qi Zheng; Kira Gor – Language Learning, 2024
Second language (L2) speakers often experience difficulties in learning words with L2-specific phonemes due to the unfaithful lexical encoding predicted by the fuzzy lexical representations hypothesis. Currently, there is limited understanding of how allophonic variation in the first language (L1) influences L2 phonological and lexical encoding.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Phonology
Jeonghwa Cho – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates how parametric variation of linguistic properties leads to similarities and differences in language processing across the levels of words, grammatical features, and sentences. For a truly generalizable theory of psycholinguistics, the languages surveyed should not be constrained to English (Garnham, 1994; Norcliffe…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Korean
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Abdulaal, Mohammad Awad Al-Dawoody – TESOL International Journal, 2021
In this paper, the researcher aims at investigating and revisiting the impact of Krashen's input hypothesis on L2 output. Based on Krashen's theories, the researcher proposes the homogeneity hypothesis as an extension to the input hypothesis. Homogeneity hypothesis states that the linguistic input given to L2 learners should be not only…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Yandres Answo Djedelbert Lao; Sukardi Weda; Muhammad Basri – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2024
First language (L1) has been an affecting factor in learning English as a foreign language (EFL) that causes negative transfer including in thesis writing. The effect can be observed by looking at English productive skills, more specifically written form, as well as thesis writing. This research investigated how L1 interfered student's English…
Descriptors: Translation, Psycholinguistics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, English (Second Language)
Ryo Maie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Skill acquisition theorists conceptualize second language (L2) learning as the acquisition of a set of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills. The dominant view in skill acquisition theory is to regard L2 skill acquisition as a three-stage process "from initial representation of knowledge through initial changes in behavior to eventual…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Learning Processes
Isabel Deibel – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Mixed languages like Media Lengua incorporate grammar from one source language (here, Quichua) but lexicon from another (here, Spanish). Due to their linguistic profile, they provide a unique window into bilingual language usage and language representation. Drawing on sociolinguistic, structural and psycholinguistic perspectives, the current…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, Code Switching (Language), Task Analysis
Seung Kyung Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This dissertation investigates the effect of phonetically cued emotional information (i.e., emotional prosody) on spoken word recognition. Even words whose meanings are not emotionally laden (e.g., "pineapple") can be uttered in a way that conveys anger, happiness, or sadness through phonetic modulation, and the current work investigates…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Speech Communication, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
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White, Lydia – Language Teaching, 2012
According to generative linguistic theory, certain principles underlying language structure are innately given, accounting for how children are able to acquire their mother tongues (L1s) despite a mismatch between the linguistic input and the complex unconscious mental representation of language that children achieve. This innate structure is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
Khetarpal, Naveen Mohan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Semantic categories across languages appear to reflect both universal conceptual tendencies and linguistic convention. To accommodate this pattern of constrained variation, many theories assume the existence of a universal conceptual space and explain cross-language variation in category extension as language-specific partitions of that space.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Universals, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics
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Andersen, Roger W. – Language Learning, 1979
Proposes a revision and expansion of Schumann's (1978b) model of pidginization as it relates to second language learning. A distinction is made between sociocultural aspects of the pidginization cycle and the acquisitional processes of pidginization, creolization, and decreolization. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Creoles, Language Research, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Hawkins, John A. – Language, 1999
Examines crosslinguistic variation in "filler-gap dependencies" (wh-questions and relative clauses) from a processing perspective, and integrates research findings from psycholinguistics, language typology, and generative grammar. Numerous implicational universals and hierarchies are proposed that receive a natural explanation in terms…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Language Research, Language Typology
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Trofimovich, Pavel; Gatbonton, Elizabeth; Segalowitz, Norman – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
This study investigates whether second language (L2) phonological learning can be characterized as a gradual and systematically patterned replacement of nonnative segments by native segments in learners' speech, conforming to a two-stage implicational scale. We adopt a dynamic approach to language variation based on Gatbonton's (1975, 1978)…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Mellow, J. Dean – Second Language Research, 1996
Critiques Pienemann and Johnston (1987), an influential model of the acquisition of English as a second language (ESL) morphology. The article demonstrates that their proposals are incompatible with syntactic analyses of word formation and emphasizes that second language researchers must ensure that models of second language acquisition are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interlanguage, Language Variation, Linguistic Theory
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Tarone, Elaine – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
Ellis's target article suggests that language processing is based on frequency and probabilistic knowledge and that language learning is implicit. These findings are consistent with those of SLA researchers working within a variationist framework (e.g., Tarone, 1985; Bayley & Preston, 1996). This paper provides a brief overview of this research…
Descriptors: Creativity, Language Variation, Language Processing, Social Environment
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, Washington, DC. – 1992
Linguistics is the study of language, as contrasted with knowledge of a specific language. Formal linguistics is the study of the structures and processes of language, or how it works and is organized. Different approaches to formal linguistics include traditional or prescriptive, structural, and generative or transformational perspectives. Formal…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Attitudes, Language Patterns
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