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Sung, Hakyung – English Teaching, 2019
This study explores how Korean English learners process English caused-motion constructions (CMC) through online and offline experiments. The focus was on how Korean learners' processing of English CMC is affected by the typological difference between English and Korean. Of the 77 volunteer participants recruited, 17 were native English speakers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, High School Students, Second Language Learning
Paul, Jing Z. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
We perform motion events in all aspects of our daily life, from walking home to jumping into a pool, from throwing a frisbee to pushing a shopping cart. The fact that languages may encode such motion events in different fashions has raised intriguing questions regarding the typological classifications of natural languages in relation to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Verbs, Motion, Language Classification
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Moradi, Hamzeh – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Depending on the demands of a particular communicative situation, bilingual or multilingual speakers ("bilingualism-multilingualism") will switch between language varieties. Code-switching is the practice of moving between variations of languages in different contexts. In an educational context, code-switching is defined as the practice…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Indo European Languages, Verbs, English (Second Language)
Petrova, Nyurguyana – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This thesis is a comprehensive study of lexical and clause-linkage properties of converbs in an underdescribed language, Sakha (aka Yakut). Following Haspelmath (1995b) a converb is defined as a non-finite verb form which mainly indicates an adverbial subordination. Converbs are attested in diverse languages of the world, but are used extensively…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Zawiszewski, Adam; Gutierrez, Eva; Fernandez, Beatriz; Laka, Itziar – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In this study, we explore native and non-native syntactic processing, paying special attention to the language distance factor. To this end, we compared how native speakers of Basque and highly proficient non-native speakers of Basque who are native speakers of Spanish process certain core aspects of Basque syntax. Our results suggest that…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Hall, Christopher J.; Newbrand, Denise; Ecke, Peter; Sperr, Ulrike; Marchand, Vanessa; Hayes, Lisa – Language Learning, 2009
Learners of third language (L3) German and L3 French studied unfamiliar verbs that were cognate with first language (L1) Spanish equivalents, second language (L2) English equivalents, or neither. We examined whether learners would assume that the verbs shared syntactic frames with cognate forms in the typologically closer language. In immediate…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Language Classification, French