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Listening in a second language
4th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1996), 1996Native and non-native listeners identified English words and sentences in six different listening conditions. When they heard speech mixed with noise or when they had to use linguistic knowledge to respond, non-native listeners suffered greater performance decrements than native listeners.
Zinny S. Bond +2 more
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WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractSecond language acquisition (SLA) is a field that investigates child and adult SLA from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This article provides a survey of some key areas of concern including formal generative theory and emergentist theory in the areas of morpho‐syntax and phonology.
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AbstractSecond language acquisition (SLA) is a field that investigates child and adult SLA from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This article provides a survey of some key areas of concern including formal generative theory and emergentist theory in the areas of morpho‐syntax and phonology.
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The acquisition of a second language
European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 2000It is claimed that if children can begin to acquire a second language at an early age they will find it easier to develop fluency, and will speak it without an accent. Age is a factor in acquiring one's mother tongue, and this also applies when learning a second language.
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2018
Abstract The study of second language phonetics is concerned with three broad and overlapping research areas: the characteristics of second language speech production and perception, the consequences of perceiving and producing nonnative speech sounds with a foreign accent, and the causes and factors that shape second language ...
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Abstract The study of second language phonetics is concerned with three broad and overlapping research areas: the characteristics of second language speech production and perception, the consequences of perceiving and producing nonnative speech sounds with a foreign accent, and the causes and factors that shape second language ...
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1986
This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language ...
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This 1986 textbook presents an account of the main concerns, problems and theoretical and practical issues raised by second language acquisition research. Research in this field had been mainly pedagogically oriented, but since the 1970s linguists and psychologists have become increasingly interested in the principles that underlie second language ...
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Second‐language acquisition behavior and hegemonic language
International Journal of Economic Theory, 2022AbstractWe construct a game‐theoretic model in which there are multiple countries with their own languages and each citizen can gain from additional communication in her secondarily acquired language. We demonstrate that in any equilibrium, a hegemonic language, which is a language that all citizens in other countries want to study, emerges.
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Second-language Instinct and Instruction Effects: Nature and Nurture in Second-language Acquisition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011AbstractAdults seem to have greater difficulties than children in acquiring a second language (L2) because of the alleged “window of opportunity” around puberty. Postpuberty Japanese participants learned a new English rule with simplex sentences during one month of instruction, and then they were tested on “uninstructed complex sentences” as well as ...
Noriaki Yusa +8 more
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Is Second Language Attrition the Reversal of Second Language Acquisition?
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989The study of language attrition, whether it is concerned with first or second languages, focuses on the effects resulting from an individual's reduced use of the attrited language. Such reduction in use can be due to a change in the linguistic environment or to the termination of an instructional program.
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Language prediction in second language
2021Abstract It is currently accepted that native speakers regularly predict upcoming elements during language comprehension. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability to predict is not as stable in a second language (L2) compared to the first language (L1). One factor that may affect prediction in an L2 is cross-linguistic influence (CLI).
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On the First and Second Language Acquisition of Spatial Language
Spatial Cognition & Computation, 2012This paper provides a brief overview of some of the main issues concerning the acquisition of spatial language as a first or second language. We first consider spatial language variation and the challenges cross-linguistic language differences present for language learners.
Kenny R. Coventry +2 more
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