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Third language acquisition: Age, proficiency and multilingualism [PDF]
, 2020 This book deals with the phenomenon of third language (L3) acquisition. As a research field, L3 acquisition is established as a branch of multilingualism that is concerned with how multilinguals learn additional languages and the role that their ...
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Identifying formulas in first language acquisition [PDF]
Journal of Child Language, 1993 ABSTRACTWith the increase in interest in formulas, or apparently non-productive utterances in children's speech, a range of definitions has emerged and sometimes conflicting criteria have been proposed for their identification. These definitions of formulas are compared, and the criteria of Brown (1973), Wong Fillmore (1976), Peters (1983) and Plunkett
Hickey, Tina, Tina Hickey
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Multiunit Sequences in First Language Acquisition [PDF]
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2017 AbstractTheoretical and empirical reasons suggest that children build their language not only out of individual words but also out of multiunit strings. These are the basis for the development of schemas containing slots. The slots are putative categories that build in abstraction while the schemas eventually connect to other schemas in terms of both ...
Anna L. Theakston, Elena Lieven
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Volume I: Defense Acquisition in Transition [PDF]
, 2009 Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program)For the first time in recent memory, acquisition reform has emerged as a significant topic in Presidential discourse.
Program, NPS Acquisition Research
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On the Study of First Language Acquisition
Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1995 Human languages are immensely complicated systems for pairing sounds with meanings, yet most infants can acquire any one of them from a few years of sustained, casual contact. However difficult it is to give sharp expression to this phenomenon, few students of language have failed to be impressed by the child's achievement.
Osherson, Daniel, Weinstein, Scott
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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, Heike Behrens
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Fifth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Proceedings Volume I [PDF]
, 2008 Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program)Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.Naval Postgraduate School Acquisition Research ...
Program, NPS Acquisition Research
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis investigates the development of the weak language in early bilingual language acquisition and its results are based on longitudinal and experimental data from 4 Italian-English bilingual children and their parents.
La Morgia, Francesca
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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación, 2011 Este artículo enmarca el tema concerniente al bilingüismo en general y como primera lengua. Se presenta un marco teórico acerca de cómo los niños aprenden un primer idioma.
Allen Quesada Pacheco
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Individual Differences in First Language Acquisition [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2020 Humans vary in almost every dimension imaginable, and language is no exception. In this article, we review the past research that has focused on individual differences (IDs) in first language acquisition. We first consider how different theoretical traditions in language acquisition treat IDs, and we argue that a focus on IDs is important given its ...
Kidd, Evan, Donnelly, Seamus
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