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The Emergence of Determiners in French L2 from the Point of View of L1/L2 Comparison
Languages, 2021 The acquisition of determiners in French presents a significant challenge for both children in L1 and adults in L2. Research in L1 acquisition has found that French determiners, which are highly constrained, appear quite early relative to other languages.
Marzena Watorek +2 more
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L2 acquisition of verbal constructions
, 2012 The study examines the production of sentences describing motion in L2 learners, focusing on progress in learning verbal constructions, i.e. pairings of verbs of motion and their compatible syntactic frames in English and French. This is an important issue because verbs that are translational equivalents in the two languages do not necessarily share ...
Sarah Berthaud +1 more
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L1 Transfer in L2 Acquisition of English Verbal Morphology by Japanese Young Instructed Learners
Languages, 2018 Inflectional morphology has been considered as a particularly difficult area in second language (L2) acquisition (Lardiere 2008; Slabakova 2008). This paper reports on an empirical study investigating the L2 acquisition of English verbal morphology by ...
Akiko Muroya
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Aspect in the L2 and L3 Acquisition of Greek
, 2012 This paper investigates different facets of the second language acquisition of Modern Greek by native speakers of Russian and Georgian, both adults and children, in the domain of aspectual marking in embedded clauses. The study investigates experimentally the inte-raction of lexical and grammatical aspect in those embedded sentential environments which
Karpava, S. +5 more
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L1 grammatical attrition through the acquisition of competing L2 discourse features
Frontiers in PsychologyA question in language acquisition research is whether attrition can affect L1 grammatical representation, and if so, under what conditions. This paper tests the Attrition via Acquisition (AvA) model, which takes a Feature Reassembly approach to predict ...
Liz Smeets
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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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Introduction: Why Should Second/Foreign Language Teachers Tune In To Instructed SLA?
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2015 Born in the late 1960s, second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of study that addresses how non-native languages are learned, either in naturalistic or instructed settings. As a “burgeoning subdomain” of SLA (Ortega, 2013, p.
Sarah Sok, Shaoyan Qi
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Language Acquisition and L2 Language: A Literature Review
Majapahit Journal of English StudiesLanguage acquisition, particularly second language (L2) learning, has been a central focus of linguistic and educational research. This literature review synthesizes recent studies (2020–2024) to explore key theories, factors, and methodologies in L2 ...
Ilham Attamimi Scenda Putra
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Acquisition and attrition in bilingual vowel systems: evidence from Arabic and English
Frontiers in Language SciencesIntroductionThis study examined how long-term immersion in a second language (L2) affects the acquisition and maintenance of long vowels in bilinguals whose first language (L1) is Arabic or English.
Amirah Saud Alharbi +2 more
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Commentary: L2 Phonology: Where Theory, Data, and Methods Meet
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Christine E. Shea, Christine E. Shea
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