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Cross-Linguistic Transfer of Object Clitic Structure: A Case of L3 Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesLanguages, 2017
This study examines the role of previously known language in L3 Brazilian Portuguese (BP) object expression acquisition. It investigates the claims of the main models of L3 transfer, the cumulative enhancement model (CEM) (Flynn et al.
Alan Parma
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Examining the Collocational Knowledge of Libyan Arabic-Speaking Learners of English in Different Learning Environments: Classroom Learning vs. Naturalistic Learning

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
The recognition that collocation is an important, yet challenging, variable in second language development has attracted extensive research into how to enhance collocation learning.
Carima Awaj
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EFFECTS OF CROSS-LINGUISTIC INFLUENCES ON SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF SEMANTIC TRANSFER IN WRITTEN PRODUCTION

open access: yesRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2009
This article concentrates on the impact that cross-linguistic influences have on second language acquisition. It investigates the importance of the learner's native language (L1) in written production of a second language (L2), particularly the use of L1
María del Mar Ramón Torrijos
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The Interference of Indonesian on English Second Language Writing

open access: yesJournal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2020
Language transfer means the application of knowledge and understanding of a source language on a target language. Dissimilarities between the source language and the target language could result in a negative transfer.
Topan Rahmatul Iman
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Soft Language Prompts for Language Transfer

open access: yesProceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Cross-lingual knowledge transfer, especially between high- and low-resource languages, remains challenging in natural language processing (NLP). This study offers insights for improving cross-lingual NLP applications through the combination of parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods.
Ivan Vykopal   +2 more
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Transfer and Universal Grammar in Unaccusative Constructions Errors

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008
Common errors are examined in subject expletive pronouns use with unaccusative predicates in the written production of Spanish high-intermediate adult students of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in an institutional setting. What these errors have in
Marciano Escutia
doaj   +1 more source

Magnitude of antenatal care service uptake and associated factors among pregnant women: analysis of the 2016 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Objective Antenatal and postnatal cares are crucial for the survival and well-being of both the mother and the child. WHO recommends a minimum of four antenatal care (ANC) visits during a pregnancy.
Setegn Muche Fenta   +2 more
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How do general psychological processes inform FLL pedagogy? Presenting a new instructional framework

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008
Learning invariably proceeds by relating new facts to the already familiar and present in the conceptual structure. In the context of FL study the familiar is, of course, the student’s mother tongue.
Michał B. Paradowski
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Segmental Phonology and Black South Mrican English Speakers: Communicative Success with Standard Dialect Listeners

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Communication Disorders, 2000
The study investigated the nature of the listener confusion that occurs when Black South African English (BSAE) speakers communicated a list of common English words to speakers of Standard South African (StdSAE) English. Specific difficulties with vowels,
Michelle Pascoe, Seppo Tuomi
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Transfer Learning in Sign language

open access: yes2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007
We build word models for American Sign Language (ASL) that transfer between different signers and different aspects. This is advantageous because one could use large amounts of labelled avatar data in combination with a smaller amount of labelled human data to spot a large number of words in human data.
Ali Farhadi   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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