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Language change for the worse [PDF]
Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language
Schaden, Gerhard +16 more
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Grammatical systems without language borders: Lessons from free-range language
, 2023 Current research in grammatical analysis and sociolinguistics points to two core characteristics of language that seem incommensurable at first sight: (1) research on linguistic structure indicates internal organisation and coherence, and the workings ...
Wiese, Heike
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, 2016 Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected ...
Bickerton, Derek; University of Hawaii
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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023 This study revisits and extends McManus and Marsden (2019a) to better understand how and why providing additional explicit information (EI) about learners’ first language (L1) alongside EI and comprehension practice in the second language (L2) improved ...
Kevin McManus
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Laterality in Emotional Language Processing in First and Second Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Language is a cognitive function that is asymmetrically distributed across both hemispheres, with left dominance for most linguistic operations. One key question of interest in cognitive neuroscience studies is related to the contribution of both hemispheres in bilingualism.
Raheleh Heyrani +7 more
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First Language Acquisition by Roma and Slovak Children
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021 The study analyzes the context and relationships of the progress in first language acquisition by monolingual children (First language: Slovak) and Roma-Slovak bilingual children (First language: Romani), as determined by the type of Roma community in ...
Milan Samko +2 more
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First language attrition [PDF]
Language Teaching, 2013 This statement opens the first collection of papers that specifically consider the deterioration of linguistic knowledge among bilinguals (Lambert & Freed 1982: see timeline), a field which in one of the papers in the volume is referred to as being in an ‘antenatal’ state (Berko-Gleason 1982: 22).
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First-language phonotactics in second-language listening [PDF]
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006 Highly proficient German users of English as a second language, and native speakers of American English, listened to nonsense sequences and responded whenever they detected an embedded English word. The responses of both groups were equivalently facilitated by preceding context that both by English and by German phonotactic constraints forced a ...
Weber, Andrea, Cutler, Anne
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Teachers ' Attitudes towards the Use of Arabic (L1) in primary EFL Classrooms in Iraq
مجلة الآداب, 2022 Having recourse to learners' mother tongue in foreign language (FL) classes has been a controversial topic in the field of teaching English as a foreign language for a long time.
Eman Rasheed Ali
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Formulaic language: Theories and methods [PDF]
, 2021 The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history.
Buerki, Andreas +10 more
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