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Download full textEvans, D. Reid – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Fundamental to complex dynamic systems theory is the assumption that the recursive behavior of complex systems results in the generation of physical forms and dynamic processes that are self-similar and scale-invariant. Such fractal-like structures and the organismic benefit that they engender has been widely noted in physiology, biology, and…
Descriptors: Syntax, Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Patkowski, Mark – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Previously published corpora of two-word utterances by three chimpanzees and three human children were compared to determine whether, as has been claimed, apes possess the same basic syntactic and semantic capacities as 2-year old children. Some similarities were observed in the type of semantic relations expressed by the two groups; however,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Animals, Semantics, Syntax
