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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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L1 attrition and L2 acquisition
EUROSLA Yearbook, 2010L1 attrition is increasingly being studied as a feature of bilingualism, taking into account the parallel process of L2 language acquisition in a migrant situation. Such situations may foster L1 attrition as a result of insufficient L1 input and competition or interaction with the language of the host community.
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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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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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L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning
2021This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired language settings, intervention effects, the acquisition ...
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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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Topic prominence in L2 acquisition
Journal of Second Language Studies, 2019AbstractThis study investigated the topic-prominent characteristics of the interlanguage development of native speakers of Chinese learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Two groups of Chinese EFL learners – an intermediate group and an advanced group – were recruited to complete two production tasks: a written Chinese-to-English translation task
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Verbal acquisition in L2 Spanish
2008This study was designed to evaluate verbal agreement in early and late L2 Spanish. The early L2 group included children from local immersion preschools who participated in an elicitation task and spontaneous speech recordings. The late L2 group, consisting of UNC-CH undergraduate students in beginning to intermediate Spanish, was asked to describe ...
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