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Language Development and Acquisition in Early Childhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The paper discussed in detail the process of language development and the process of language acquisition in early childhood. It also gave a brief overview of the theoretical frame of reference of language development.
Al-Harbi, S. S. (Salwa)
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Language acquisition and machine learning [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
In this paper, we review recent progress in the field of machine learning and examine its implications for computational models of language acquisition. As a framework for understanding this research, we propose four component tasks involved in learning ...
Carbonell, Jaime G., Langley, Pat
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Ecological Theory of Language Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This poster outlines an Ecological Theory of Language Acquisition (ETLA). The theory views the early phases of the language acquisition process as an emergent consequence of the interaction between the infant and its linguistic environment.
Gustavsson, Lisa   +5 more
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Learner internal psychological factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Book synopsis: What is language and how can we investigate its acquisition by children or adults? What perspectives exist from which to view acquisition? What internal constraints and external factors shape acquisition?
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter.
Behrens Heike   +8 more
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Embedded Aspect in L2 Acquisition: Evidence from L1 Russian Learners of Greek. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This work investigates first language (L1) influence on the second language (L2) acquisition of aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Mainland Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where ...
Grohmann, Kleanthes, Karpava, Sviatlana
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Developmental Constraints on Learning Artificial Grammars with Fixed, Flexible and Free Word Order

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Human learning, although highly flexible and efficient, is constrained in ways that facilitate or impede the acquisition of certain systems of information.
Iga Nowak   +3 more
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Multi-Talker Speech Promotes Greater Knowledge-Based Spoken Mandarin Word Recognition in First and Second Language Listeners

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Spoken word recognition involves a perceptual tradeoff between the reliance on the incoming acoustic signal and knowledge about likely sound categories and their co-occurrences as words.
Seth Wiener, Chao-Yang Lee
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Response through the Intentional Arc: Merleau-Ponty, Dreyfus and Second Language Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Language, when considered as part of the lived experience of human beings, fails to be reduced to mere representation. In line with non-representationalist understandings of the mind and knowledge-how centered understandings of knowledge, purposiveness ...
Burnett, Mia
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More is more in language learning:reconsidering the less-is-more hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The Less-is-More hypothesis was proposed to explain age-of-acquisition effects in first language (L1) acquisition and second language (L2) attainment. We scrutinize different renditions of the hypothesis by examining how learning outcomes are affected by
Brooks, Patricia J., Kempe, Vera
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