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A Usage-Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis
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Beckner, Clay; Bybee, Joan – Language Learning, 2009
Constituent structure is considered to be the very foundation of linguistic competence and often considered to be innate, yet we show here that it is derivable from the domain-general processes of chunking and categorization. Using modern and diachronic corpus data, we show that the facts support a view of constituent structure as gradient (as…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Variation, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
The Development of L1 and L2 Proficiency in Dutch: A Narrative Analysis of a Picture-Based Story, Told by Turkish and Native Dutch Children at the Ages of Six and Eight.
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Lalleman, Josine A. – Language Learning, 1987
Dutch native children and Turkish immigrant children, born and reared in the Netherlands, were asked to tell a story from a series of pictures, at age six and again at age eight. The Turkish children exhibited about the same level of narrative proficiency in Dutch as their Dutch peers. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dutch
The Selective Use of Specific Exemplars in Second-Language Performance: The Case of the Dative Alternation.
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Tanaka, Shigenori – Language Learning, 1987
Students in freshmen English classes (N=273) at a Japanese university were given translation and acceptability judgment tests involving the verb "give" (in text). The selective use of two predicate structures for "give" in appropriate contexts of usage were examined: (1) GIVE (noun phrase NP and participial phrase PP) and (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education