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The acquisition of L2 speaking
2018The complex dynamic systems theory approach to second language development has great explanatory power in accounting for the development of speaking as an emergent process. CDST approaches focus on the process of development, rather than on the products of learning, and often include the learner’s variability over time as an important source of ...
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Phonetica, 1977
Abstract Four German children aged 4–9 learned English as their second language (L2) the natural way, i.e. without formal teaching. They acquired the local L2 /r/ – Which varied from central frictionless continuant to retroflex – in the same developmental sequence. The first non-zero substitute for the L2 /r/ was [w], then a frictionless
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Abstract Four German children aged 4–9 learned English as their second language (L2) the natural way, i.e. without formal teaching. They acquired the local L2 /r/ – Which varied from central frictionless continuant to retroflex – in the same developmental sequence. The first non-zero substitute for the L2 /r/ was [w], then a frictionless
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2018
Abstract Successive childhood bilingualism or child second language (L2) acquisition is the acquisition of an L2 during childhood after some properties of the first language (L1) are already in place. The study of child L2 development can inform us about the mechanisms and processes involved in second language learning and ...
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Abstract Successive childhood bilingualism or child second language (L2) acquisition is the acquisition of an L2 during childhood after some properties of the first language (L1) are already in place. The study of child L2 development can inform us about the mechanisms and processes involved in second language learning and ...
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The acquisition of L2 Spanish intonation
Journal of Second Language Pronunciation, 2022AbstractThis study examines the developmental patterns manifested in the intonational grammar of American English-speaking learners of Spanish based on their use of intonational features (e.g., [±delayed peak], [±deaccentuation], or [±compression]) involved in focus marking in three different discursive contexts (i.e., broad focus, informational ...
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2017
This chapter investigates the intersection of pragmatics, 'the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication'. It also investigates instructed second
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This chapter investigates the intersection of pragmatics, 'the study of language from the point of view of users, especially of the choices they make, the constraints they encounter in using language in social interaction and the effects their use of language has on other participants in the act of communication'. It also investigates instructed second
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Modularity in Adult L2 Acquisition
Language Learning, 1989Modular conceptions of the language faculty assume that linguistic knowledge is encoded in distinct cognitive systems differing in the nature of their representations. Earlier investigations (Schachter & Rutherford, 1979; Rutherford, 1983) have reported that L2 (English) syntactic forms are adapted to L1 (Chinese/Japanese) discourse functions ...
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Typological proximity in L2 acquisition
2015Typologically-close languages such as French and Spanish share many typological universals and macroparametric options but display different microparametric options as well as obvious and subtle morphological, syntactic and processing differences. This counterposed situation that we conceptualize as typological similarity versus typological proximity ...
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Incidental acquisition of collocations in L2
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2017AbstractAs collocations are very numerous, at least a part of them has to be learned incidentally when acquiring a second language. There is now an increasing body of evidence showing that incidental learning of collocations seems to be possible. The present study sets out to investigate whether collocations can be learned incidentally if encountered ...
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L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis
2006In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel).
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The Compounding Parameter and L2 acquisition
2017Abstract This chapter investigates the L2 acquisition of the cluster of structures related to the positive setting of the Compounding Parameter (TCP: nominal compounding (N+N), resultative structures (RS), verb+particle constructions (V+PRT), double object constructions (DOC), and preposition stranding (PrepStr)) in the development ...
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