The emotional weight of "I love you" in multilinguals' languages [PDF]
, 2008 The present paper considers the perceived emotional weight of the phrase I love you in multilinguals’ different languages. The sample consists of 1459 adult multilinguals speaking a total of 77 different first languages.
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The Problem of Synforms in Serbian Efl Learners Revisited
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2014 This paper will explore the issue of similar lexical forms (Laufer 1991) as a potential problem in vocabulary acquisition of Serbian EFL learners. Building on previous research (Kocić 2008), we collected data from two groups of undergraduate students at ...
Danilović Jelena, Dimitrijević Marta
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The role of international student interactions in English as a lingua franca in L2 acquisition, L2 motivational development and intercultural learning during study abroad [PDF]
, 2019 Crossing borders features prominently as a theme in study abroad, not only in terms of students’ physical border crossings but also in their intercultural interactions with second language (L2) speakers whose background (linguistic and otherwise) they ...
Hessel, Gianna
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The L2 Acquisition of French Interrogatives: Pragmatic Inferences in Clefted wh-Questions
Languages, 2021 The present study aims to elaborate on the understanding of the second language (L2) acquisition of French interrogatives by focusing on clefted (subject) wh-questions, structures that are largely absent in prior L2 literature.
Emilie Destruel, Bryan Donaldson
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Pragmatic connectives and L2 acquisition
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2022 The purpose of this paper is to address the question of connectives from a contrastive point of view. By connectives I understand a particular class of linguistic elements, viz. adverbs and conjunctions that function as linkers between clauses, sentences or larger text fragments. The languages to be dealt with are French and Dutch. The present research
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THE UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR APPROACH
Okara: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra, 2017 This paper describes what Universal Grammar (UG) is, the universal of UG (parameters and principles, marked and unmarked, core and peripheral), UG and L2 Acquisition, Access to UG and L2 Acquisition, the strength and weakness of ...
- Mulyadi
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Production and processing asymmetries in the acquisition of tense morphology by sequential bilingual children [PDF]
, 2011 This study investigates the production and on-line processing of English tense morphemes by sequential bilingual (L2) Turkish-speaking children with more than three years of exposure to English.
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Processing advantage for emotional words in bilingual speakers [PDF]
, 2015 Effects of emotion on word processing are well established in monolingual speakers. However, studies that have assessed whether affective features of words undergo the same processing in a native and non-native language have provided mixed results ...
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Russian L1 speakers’ palatalization in Estonian and the effect of phonetic speech training
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2021 The purpose of this paper is to find out whether palatalization contributes to Russian-accented speech in Estonian and whether speech training would help to speak more native-like. Although palatalization is a common feature of both Estonian and Russian,
Anton Malmi, Pärtel Lippus
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Second Language Transfer During Third Language Acquisition
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2003 A recent focus in the study of cross-linguistic influence is the role of transfer during third language acquisition. How do the learner’s first and second languages influence the acquisition of a third language?
Shirin Murphy
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