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Daniel Freudenthal; Fernand Gobet; Julian M. Pine – Language Learning, 2024
This study extended an existing crosslinguistic model of verb-marking errors in children's early multiword speech (MOSAIC) by adding a novel mechanism that defaults to the most frequent form of the verb where this accounts for a high proportion of forms in the input. Our simulations showed that the resulting model not only provides a better…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Native Language, Verbs
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Zhang, Xiaopeng – Language Learning, 2017
This study adopted Ambridge's research paradigm to examine the effects of entrenchment, preemption, and verb semantics in second language (L2) acquisition of English "un-" prefixation. Three groups of Chinese learners of English (second- and fourth-year English majors and teachers of English) rated the acceptability of 48 "un-"…
Descriptors: Generalization, Error Analysis (Language), Linguistic Performance, Language Styles
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Laufer, Batia; Waldman, Tina – Language Learning, 2011
The present study investigates the use of English verb-noun collocations in the writing of native speakers of Hebrew at three proficiency levels. For this purpose, we compiled a learner corpus that consists of about 300,000 words of argumentative and descriptive essays. For comparison purposes, we selected LOCNESS, a corpus of young adult native…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Young Adults, Native Speakers
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Juffs, Alan; Harrington, Michael – Language Learning, 1996
Expands on the authors' (1995) investigation of the parsing performance on "wh"-movement sentences by Chinese-speaking learners of English. The article compares the difficulty second-language learners have in parsing subject "wh"-traces in embedded finite and nonfinite clauses with the problems they have in parsing Garden Path…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)