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Bordag, Denisa; Opitz, Andreas – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In two visual priming experiments, we investigated the relation of form-identical word forms with different grammatical functions in L1 and L2 German. Four different grammatical types (inflected verbs, infinitives, deverbal conversion forms, and countable nouns) were used as primes and their influence on the processing of form-identical inflected…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Native Language
Grey, Sarah – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examined individual-level variability in N400 and P600 ERP correlates of native and nonnative language sentence processing of semantic and grammar information. Twenty-six native English-speaking learners of Spanish as a second language were tested. Participants completed sentence reading tasks in English and Spanish during EEG…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Semantics
Szudarski, Pawel; Mikolajczak, Sylwia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological factors. Our aims were twofold: to investigate learners' comprehension in different conditions…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lindstromberg, Seth; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Although retrieval of lexical forms is a prerequisite for language production, research of L2 vocabulary learning has focused much more on meanings and form-meaning mappings than on development of detailed, accessible mental representations of forms. This is particularly true with respect to multi-word items (MWIs). We report an experimental study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Vandenberghe, Bert; Perez, Maribel Montero; Reynvoet, Bert; Desmet, Piet – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study combines explicit (pen-and-paper) and sensitive (time-pressured) measures to gauge the impact of three instructional interventions (contextualized input with meaning-focused activities, contextualized input with word-focused activities, and decontextualized input with word-focused exercises) on the learning of 20 L2 French target verbs.…
Descriptors: French, Verbs, Linguistic Input, Intervention
Kanwit, Matthew; Geeslin, Kimberly L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The Spanish mood contrast is a good test case for research on acquiring form-meaning connections in contexts where input is variable and multiple areas of the grammar are implicated (e.g., syntax, semantics, pragmatics). Nevertheless, research on interpretation of this contrast lags and little is known about how individual lexical items and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Pragmatics, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Paciorek, Albertyna; Williams, John N. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
Previous studies of semantic implicit learning in language have only examined learning grammatical form-meaning connections in which learning could have been supported by prior linguistic knowledge. In this study we target the domain of verb meaning, specifically semantic preferences regarding novel verbs (e.g., the preference for a novel verb to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reaction Time, Verbs, Nouns
Judy, Tiffany – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
The present study examines potential age and microparametric effects in childhood bilinguals (currently adults) in an understudied language pairing, Polish-Spanish. Specifically, a Spanish group (N = 28) and a Sequential child bilingual (N = 22) and a Simultaneous bilingual (N = 8) group living in Misiones, Argentina, completed three experimental…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Bilingualism, Polish
Feng, Shuo – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
By replicating Cho (2017), this article investigates how second language (L2) learners with an article-less first language acquire two types of English definiteness, anaphoric and nonanaphoric. Mandarin Chinese, as an article-less language, has a demonstrative determiner that shares the same feature set as the English definite article…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nouns
Foote, Rebecca – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Research with native speakers indicates that, during word recognition, regularly inflected words undergo parsing that segments them into stems and affixes. In contrast, studies with learners suggest that this parsing may not take place in L2. This study's research questions are: Do L2 Spanish learners store and process regularly inflected,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
Borgonovo, Claudia; de Garavito, Joyce Bruhn; Prévost, Philippe – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2015
There is presently a lively debate in second language (L2) acquisition research as to whether (adult) learners can acquire linguistic phenomena located at the interface between syntax and other modules, such as semantics, pragmatics, and lexical semantics, in contrast to phenomena that are purely syntactic in nature. For some researchers, the…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Semantics, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
Grey, Sarah; Williams, John N.; Rebuschat, Patrick – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
Evidence of learning following incidental exposure has been found for aspects of nonnative syntax in adults (Rebuschat & Williams, 2006, 2012; Williams & Kuribara, 2008). However, little research has tested delayed effects of learning under an incidental condition or moved beyond word order. This study investigated learning of third…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Task Analysis
Berent, Gerald P.; Kelly, Ronald R.; Schueler-Choukairi, Tanya – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This study assessed knowledge of numerically quantified English sentences in two learner populations--second language (L2) learners and deaf learners--whose acquisition of English occurs under conditions of restricted access to the target language input. Under the experimental test conditions, interlanguage parallels were predicted to arise from…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Nouns, Interlanguage
Charkova, Krassimira D.; Halliday, Laura J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study examined how English learners in second-language (SL) and foreign-language (FL) contexts employ tense backshifting in indirect reported speech. Participants included 35 international students in the United States, 37 Bulgarian speakers of English, 38 Bosnian speakers of English, and 41 native English speakers. The instrument involved…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
O'Grady, William; Kwak, Hye-Young; Lee, On-Soon; Lee, Miseon – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
It is widely recognized that the processor has a key role to play in creating and strengthening the mapping between form and meaning that is integral to language use. Adopting an emergentist approach to heritage language acquisition, the current study considers the extent to which the operation of the processor can contribute to an account of what…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Usage, Heritage Education
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