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Real bad grammar: realistic grammatical description with grammaticality [PDF]

, 2007
Sampson (this issue) argues for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” in which the distinction between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences is irrelevant. In this article I also argue for a concept of “realistic grammatical description” but
Charniak Eugene, Chomsky Noam, Derwing Bruce L, Jennifer Foster, Lamb Sidney, Sampson Geoffrey, Snow Catherine E, Stephan Oepen, van Dijk Teun A   +8 more
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When focus goes wild: An empirical study of two syntactic positions for information focus

LingBaW, 2015
My goal in the present paper is to carry out an analysis of the syntactic and discourse properties of Information Focus (IF) in Southern Peninsular Spanish (SPS) and Standard Spanish (SS) varieties.
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
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Turkish EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Psych Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs: A Replication Study on Underpassivization and Overpassivization

Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization errors since passivization entails more processing.
Seray Tanyer, Samet Deniz
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Remote Screening for Developmental Language Disorder in Bilingual Children: Preliminary Validation in Spanish–Italian Speaking Preschool Children

Applied Sciences, 2023
Due to the difficulties in differentiating bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) from bilingual children with temporary language difficulties that may be caused by heterogeneous language input, language assessments of bilingual ...
Maren Eikerling, Marco Andreoletti, Matteo Secco, Bianca Luculli, Giulia Cha, Sofía Castro, Stefania Gazzola, Daniela Sarti, Franca Garzotto, Maria Teresa Guasti, Maria Luisa Lorusso   +10 more
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Reevaluating Adversarial Examples in Natural Language

, 2020
State-of-the-art attacks on NLP models lack a shared definition of a what constitutes a successful attack. We distill ideas from past work into a unified framework: a successful natural language adversarial example is a perturbation that fools the model ...
Ji, Yangfeng, Lanchantin, Jack, Lifland, Eli, Morris, John X., Qi, Yanjun   +4 more
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The influence of L1 Dutch and L2 English on L3 French: A longitudinal study

Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2018
This longitudinal study investigates negative transfer from L1 Dutch and L2 English into L3 French in the first three years of French education in a Dutch/English secondary immersion school.
Rosalinde Stadt, Aafke Hulk, Petra Sleeman   +2 more
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Enhancing Information Language Learning with Mobile Technology - Does it Work? [PDF]

, 2012
There are many theories that attempt to explain second language acquisition processes and factors determining success or failure. Despite a lack of general agreement between proponents of these theories, research has convincingly shown that the amount of
Min, Young Cho, Reinders, Hayo
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Examining the Implementation of Different Test Tasks in Assessing EFL Learners’ Use of English Tenses

Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2023
This study examines how different tasks assess learners’ use of English tenses. EFL teachers use test tasks such as gap-filling, multiple-choice and grammaticality judgment tasks.
Mehdi GRIDI
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Bilingual advantages in foreign language learning: evidence from primary-school pupils with developmental language disorder

Frontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionOne of the bilingual advantages often reported in the literature on typically-developing children involves advantages in foreign language learning at school.
Elena Tribushinina, Megan Mackaaij
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Gender agreement attraction in Greek comprehension [PDF]

, 2020
This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Acuña-Fariña, Agathopoulou, Ahn, Alexiadou, Alexiadou, Anagnostopoulou, Anastasiadi-Simeonidi, Badecker, Barr, Bañón, Bock, Bock, Brehm, Cunnings, Cunnings, Dillon, Eberhard, Eberhard, Felser, Ferreira, Franck, Franck, Franck, Fuchs, Hammerly, Hartsuiker, Häussler, Jäger, Kaltsa, Katsika, Kazana, Lago, Lago, Lewis, Lewis, Linzen, Manasis, Mancini, Marinis, Marinis, Marinis, Martin, Martin, Mastropavlou, Nicol, Papadopoulou, Parker, Parker, Paspali, Paspali, Patson, Pearlmutter, Pfau, Phillips, Ralli, Ratcliff, Sagarra, Santesteban, Schlueter, Slioussar, Slioussar, Solomon, Staub, Tanner, Tsimpli, Tsimpli, Tucker, Tucker, Tzovara, Van Dyke, Vigliocco, Vigliocco, Villata, Villata, Wagers   +74 more
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