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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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Acquisition of second language intonation
6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), 2000Foreign accents in second language (L2) production are caused by the phonological system and phonetic realization of the first language (L1), including both segmental and prosodic features. This paper examines the intonation structure of Seoul Korean and its realization by American English speakers. Four English speakers of Korean, differing in fluency,
Sun-Ah Jun, Mira Oh
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The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Language Testing
, 2020This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and language testing: shared ground where researchers seek to measure second
Paula M. Winke, Tineke Brunfaut
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Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2019Preface1. Terence Odlin: Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?2. Vivian Cook: Transfer and the Relationship Between the Languages of Multi-competence3.
Rosa Alonso
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Second language acquisition research and the second language acquisition of French
Journal of French Language Studies, 1992AbstractPrior to the late 1960s second language acquisition was thought to be a relatively uninteresting phenomenon; it involved transferring grammatical properties already activated in the first language (L 1) onto second language (L 2) vocabulary. Successful L 2 learners were those who could capitalise on the similarities between the L 1 and the L 2,
Roger Hawkins, Richard Towell
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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION BETWEEN 1997 AND 2018
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019This study used the bibliometric method to examine the field of second language acquisition (SLA) between 1997 and 2018 to provide a systematic overview of the field and to discover major trends in SLA.
Xian Zhang
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Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
, 1998W.C. Ritchie and T.K. Bhatia, Second Language Acquisition: Introduction, Foundations, and Overview. Research and Theoretical Issues in Second Language Acquisition: K.R. Gregg, The Logical and Developmental Problems of Second Language Acquisition.
W. C. Ritchie, Tej K. Bhatia
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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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Acquisition of timing patterns in second language
Interspeech 2011, 2011The paper presents an analysis of speech rhythm development in second language. 51 German learners of English with varying degrees of proficiency were recorded producing 33 identical sentences of quasi-spontaneous speech. Durational characteristics of syllables, consonantal and vocalic intervals were calculated to allow for analysis of timing patterns ...
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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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