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Yamada, Aaron George – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Negation has been researched in second language acquisition in several languages (Bernini 2000; Donaldson 2017; Eskildsen 2012). However, there are very few studies that have discussed the acquisition of negation in L2 Spanish. In Alexandrino's (2010) dissertation, Grammaticality Judgment Tasks are employed to indicate that the acquisition of…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Transfer of Training
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Mykhaylyk, Roksolana – Journal of Child Language, 2012
This study examines the word order phenomenon of optional scrambling in Ukrainian. It aims to test factors such as semantic features and object type that have been shown to affect scrambling in other languages. Forty-one children between 2 ; 7 and 6 ; 0, and twenty adult speakers participated in an elicited production experiment. The picture…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonology, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages)
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Sakai, Hideki – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper presents a brief summary of processability theory as proposed by [Pienemann, M., 1998a. "Language Processing and Second Language Development: Processability Theory." John Benjamins, Amsterdam; Pienemann, M., 1998b. "Developmental dynamics in L1 and L2 acquisition: processability theory and generative entrenchment." "Bilingualism:…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Word Order