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Henry, Nick – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigates whether the use of prosodic cues during instruction facilitates the processing of German accusative case markers. Two groups of third semester L1 English learners of L2 German completed Processing Instruction (PI) with aural input: Learners in the PI+P group heard sentences that included focused prosodic cues; learners in…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Rachida Ganga; Haoyan Ge; Marijn E. Struiksma; Virginia Yip; Aoju Chen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
It has been proposed that second language (L2) learners differ from native speakers in processing due to either influence from their native language or an inability to integrate information from multiple linguistic domains in a second language. To shed new light on the underlying mechanism of L2 processing, we used an event-related potentials…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli; Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks…
Descriptors: Role, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning