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Testing the interface hypothesis: the acquisition of English indirect questions by L1 speakers of Omani Arabic [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2022
This study tests the interface hypothesis by investigating how advanced Arab learners of English develop the grammatical knowledge of English indirect questions.
Amer Ahmed, Iryna Lenchuk
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L2 acquisition of Wh-interrogatives at the syntax-discourse interface: interface hypothesis again [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2023
This study sets out to answer one major question: do linguistic phenomena relating to syntax-discourse interface constitute difficulty for Yemeni learners of English?
Mohammed Shormani
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Caveolae-Mediated Extracellular Vesicle (CMEV) Signaling of Polyvalent Polysaccharide Vaccination: A Host–Pathogen Interface Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yesPharmaceutics, 2022
We published a study showing that improvement in response to splenectomy associated defective, in regards to the antibody response to Pneumovax® 23 (23-valent polysaccharides, PPSV23), can be achieved by splenocyte reinfusion.
Shengwen Calvin Li, Mustafa H. Kabeer
doaj   +6 more sources

On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Acquisition of Structures at Syntax-Discourse Interface: Post-Verbal Subjects in L2 English

open access: yesTheory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate and advanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language with rich verbal morphology.
Liljana Mitkovska   +2 more
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The Relationship between Students’ Motivation for Studying Business English and Their Knowledge of Business English and Its Terminology

open access: yesTheory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The study investigates the relationship between English Philology students’ motivation for studying Business English and their actual knowledge of business terminology, some underlying economic concepts and basic rules of business correspondence.
Teresa Maria Wlosowicz
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The Distribution of Subjects in L2 Spanish by Greek Learners

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Our study examines the expression and position of subjects in L2 acquisition, two phenomena that are studied within the framework of the Interface Hypothesis (IH).
Panagiota Margaza, Anna Gavarró
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Language Interfaces in Adult Heritage Language Acquisition: A Study on Encoding of Nominal Reference in Mandarin Chinese as a Heritage Language

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
According to the Interface Hypothesis in the field of bilingualism, the interface connecting a linguistic module with a language-external domain (e.g., syntax-discourse) will present prolonged difficulties for adult bilingual learners, as compared with ...
Jing Jin   +3 more
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TURING: an Accurate and Interpretable Multi-Hypothesis Cross-Domain Natural Language Database Interface [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, 2021
A natural language database interface (NLDB) can democratize data-driven insights for non-technical users. However, existing Text-to-SQL semantic parsers cannot achieve high enough accuracy in the cross-database setting to allow good usability in practice. This work presents Turing, a NLDB system toward bridging this gap.
Xu, Peng   +9 more
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The features and factors in the acquisition of English existential constructions at the syntax–pragmatics interface by Chinese learners

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study adopted a mixed-method study design to investigate the acquisitional features of English existential constructions at the syntax-pragmatics interface by Chinese learners, and explore the factors for non-native performance from the perspective ...
Shan Jiang, Huiping Zhang
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