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Unbiased assessment of first language acquisition in English : distinguishing development and dialect from disorder

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2003
In the United States, as in all countries of the world in which English is widely spoken, there exist different dialects or variants of the language. These dialects are often defined by regional or cultural groups and may vary from each other in one or ...
De Villiers, Peter A., De Villiers, Jill G. , Roeper, Thomas, Seymour, Harry N. , Pearson, Barbara Zurer   +4 more
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The acquisition of grammatical gender in L2 German by learners with Afrikaans, English or Italian as their L1

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2012
In recent years there has been an increase in research on the acquisition of morphological aspects of a second language (L2). Specifically, a number of studies have been conducted on the acquisition of grammatical gender in the L2.
Ellis, Carla , Conradie, Simone, Huddlestone, Kate   +2 more
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Language acquisition in developmental disorders [PDF]

, 2010
In this chapter, I review recent research into language acquisition in developmental disorders, and the light that these findings shed on the nature of language acquisition in typically developing children.
Thomas, Michael S.C.
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Do grammatical variations between languages influence early language acquisition in autistic individuals?

Language and Health
Could grammatical variations between languages influence early language acquisition? This question has been largely overlooked, likely due to the challenges of studying it in typically developing children.
Alessandro Tagliavia, Edward Khokhlovich, Andrey Vyshedskiy   +2 more
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Innatist and Interactionist Learning Approaches of Elementary School Students’ Language Acquisition

Humaniora, 2019
Language acquisition starts in childhood. Oral language is the initial language to learn. Within it, lies norms to make language functional. Children start to function the language through communication.
Petra Kristi Mulyani
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Pronoun Processing and Interpretation by L2 Learners of Italian: Perspectives from Cognitive Modelling

Discours, 2020
How do second language learners acquire form-meaning associations in the second language that are inconsistent with their first language? In this study, we focus on subject pronouns in Italian and Dutch.
Petra Hendriks, Margreet Vogelzang
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Challenges of language transition: Investigating grade 4 learners' struggles with English as a first additional language in the intermediate phase in South Africa

IJOTL-TL (Indonesian Journal of Language Teaching and Linguistics)
Transitioning from instruction in the home language during the Foundation Phase to English as the language of instruction in the Intermediate Phase presents considerable challenges for Grade 4 students in South Africa.  Following the Preferred Reporting
Philani Ntuthuko Goge, Mncedisi Christian Maphalala   +1 more
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Language Learning and Language Universals

Biolinguistics, 2010
This paper explores the role of learning in generative grammar, highlighting interactions between distributional patterns in the environment and the innate structure of the language faculty.
Jeffrey Lidz
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The Acquisition of Allophonic Aspiration Contrast of English Voiceless Stops

Sindh Journal of Linguistics
 This study examines the acquisition of the allophonic aspiration contrast of English voiceless stops by Khowar speakers, whose native language encodes aspiration as a phonemic distinction.
Sami Ullah Khan, Ghulam Ali Buriro, Dolat Khan   +2 more
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Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?

Cybernetics and Information Technologies, 2018
The analysis of child’s speech corpora shows that the process of acquisition of English and French displays identical development of children’s expressions when the speech-utterances are presented as Fibonacci-weighted classes of concepts.
Slavova Velina
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