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Seventh Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Proceedings Volume I [PDF]
, 2010 Proceedings Paper (for Acquisition Research Program)One needs no powers of prophecy to predict that perilous economic times lie ahead for our nation and the rest of the world. While uncertainty surrounds the global economic crisis''how long it will last,
Program, NPS Acquisition Research
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Early acquisition of figurative meanings in polysemous nouns and verbs
Language and CognitionEarly research on the first language acquisition of figurative language indicated that figurative language comprehension and production skills develop relatively late, while recent studies contest this view.
Ana Werkmann Horvat +2 more
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Access to Second Language Acquisition
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2017 This paper discusses the different views on the availability of UG principles in language acquisition of adult second language learners, and summarizes some of the evidence for or against each position. One important issue in current language acquisition
Mahmoud H Jabballa
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Developing a Persian version of the Wug Test to assess children’s morphological knowledge
Journal of Child Language Acquisition and DevelopmentAssessing children's linguistic knowledge is essential for understanding the processes underlying language acquisition and development. To this end, Berko (1958) developed the Wug Test, a tool to evaluate English-speaking children's morphological ...
Mehdi Mehranirad +2 more
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Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica, 2013 The aim of this research is to study the behaviour of expletive pronouns in the acquisition of English as a second language. We will analyze the processes involved in the acquisition of a first and a second language in order to investigate if expletive ...
Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
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Development of directives in child language: A case study of Czech
Topics in Linguistics, 2015 In this article, the longitudinal development of directives in first-language acquisition is described, and examples of the development of directive speech acts in one Czech child from the ages of 2.8 to 4.1 are included.
Chejnová Pavla
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Cognitive LinguisticsIn the Construction Grammar framework, grammatical knowledge is described as a network of related constructions. While usage-based language acquisition research has investigated the emergence of taxonomic relations and the development of abstract ...
Patrizzi Laura
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Rethinking L1–L2 differences: the role of explicit cognitive abilities
Language and CognitionDespite longstanding assertions that first language (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition rely on fundamentally different processes, recent research increasingly questions this dichotomy by exploring the cognitive mechanisms underlying them.
Panagiotis Kenanidis +2 more
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Negation in First Language Acquisition: Universal or Language‐Specific?
Cognitive ScienceAbstract Negation is a cornerstone of human language and one of the few universals found in all languages. Without negation, neither categorization nor efficient communication would be possible. Languages, however, differ remarkably in how they express negation.
Sakine Çabuk Balli +6 more
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SEEU ReviewThis study shows that listening comprehension is very important in both first language acquisition and foreign language learning. Nevertheless, listening receives little attention in foreign language teaching, so it is rarely trained.
Denjalli Blerta
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