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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]
, 2009 It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike +8 more
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Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 249-279, March 2026.Abstract This study explores how word frequency affects verb‐mediated prediction in L1 and L2 speakers, using a visual‐world eye‐tracking task. By manipulating frequency of nouns within subjects (higher; lower) and type of verbs used as predictive cues (semantically restrictive; neutral) in sentences (e.g., The {doctor/surgeon} {opened/moved} the box),
Haerim Hwang, Kitaek Kim
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The Shallow Structure Hypothesis and Sentence Processing in a Second Language
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.ABSTRACT The Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) has been highly influential in the study of adult second language (L2) acquisition. With respect to L2 sentence processing, the essential claim is that L2 speakers rely less on syntactic information and more on alternative sources of information (e.g., lexical semantics and discourse) than adult first ...
Kyle Swanson, A. Kate Miller
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On the early development of aspect in greek and russian child language, a comparative analysis [PDF]
, 2013 The category of aspect is grammaticized in both Greek and Russian opposing perfective and imperfective verb forms in all inflectional categories except the nonpast (‘present’).
Stephany, Ursula, Voeikova, Maria
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The effect of word-initial glottalization on word monitoring in Slovak speakers of English [PDF]
, 2012 The study investigates the impact of glottal elements before word-initial vowels on the speed of processing of the phrases taken from natural continuous speech.
Skarnitzl, Radek +2 more
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Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition Through Captioned Viewing: A Meta‐Analysis
Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 4, Page 939-987, December 2025.Abstract Second language (L2) viewing with captions (i.e., L2 on‐screen text) is now a proliferating as well as promising area of L2 acquisition research. The goal of the present meta‐analysis was to examine (a) the relationship between captioned viewing and incidental vocabulary learning and (b) what variables related to learners, treatment ...
Satsuki Kurokawa +2 more
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Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Multi-competence and first language attrition [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction The multi-competence approach views bilingual development as a wholistic process that impacts not only on the linguistic system which is being acquired but on other languages that are already established in the mind/brain (Cook 2012).
Schmid, MS, Seton, B
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Language Learning, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 898-929, September 2025.Abstract A handful of second language (L2) studies have explored bidirectional pragmatic transfer: forward pragmatic transfer—the influence of learners' first language (L1) on their L2—and reverse pragmatic transfer—the impact of learners' L2 on their L1.
Ying Zhang (she/her)
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The development of gender assignment and agreement in English-Greek and German-Greek bilingual children [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this experimental study is to examine the development of Greek gender in bilingual English-Greek and German-Greek children. Four gender production tasks were designed, two targeting gender assignment eliciting determiners and two targeting ...
Argyri, F, Kaltsa, M, Tsimpli, IM
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