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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 540-567, Summer 2026.Abstract This study investigates the pedagogical impact of integrating cognitive linguistics (CL) into concept‐based language instruction (C‐BLI) for teaching English modal verbs. Eighty‐nine Mandarin‐speaking university learners were assigned to one of three instructional conditions: C‐BLI with CL‐based conceptualizations (C‐BLI‐CL), C‐BLI with non‐CL
Helen Zhao, James P. Lantolf
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, 2003 This paper proposes a non-standard way to combine lazy functional languages with I/O. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the approach, a tiny lazy functional core language FUNDIO , which is also a call-by-need lambda calculus, is investigated. The
Schmidt-Schauß, Manfred
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input [PDF]
, 2011 This thesis investigates the development of the weak language in early bilingual language acquisition and its results are based on longitudinal and experimental data from 4 Italian-English bilingual children and their parents.
La Morgia, Francesca
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Multiword sequences do not predict speaking proficiency in dialogue: A pair‐level analysis
The Modern Language Journal, Volume 110, Issue 2, Page 631-652, Summer 2026.Abstract This study revisited the commonly held view that the use of multiword sequences (MWSs) is a reliable predictor of L2 speaking proficiency in monologue, by extending the investigation from monologic to dialogic speaking contexts. We accessed dialogic performance data from 127 test‐takers of the Test of English for Educational Purposes assessed ...
Takumi Uchihara +3 more
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The bottleneck of second language acquisition
, 2014 Explaining why some linguistic features and constructions are easy or difficult to acquire in a second language has become a prominent current concern in generative second language acquisition (SLA) research.
Slabakova, Roumyana
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(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English
Theoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
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Modifying (the grammar of) adjuncts : an introduction
, 2003 One aspect of the progress being made is that the focus of attention has widened. Adverbials, though still the heart of the matter, now form part of a much larger set of constituent types subsumed under the general syntactic label of adjunct; while ...
Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine +2 more
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Measure instrumental in russian
, 2013 We will argue that some seemingly adverbial free DPs in the instrumental in Russian which are traditionally termed measure instrumental are best understood as secondary predicates.
Demjjanow, Assinja, Strigin, Anatoli
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Agent, causer and instrument PPs in Greek : implications for verbal structure
, 2008 In this paper we investigate the distribution of PPs related to external arguments (agent, causer, instrument, causing event) in Greek. We argue that their distribution supports an analysis, according to which agentive/instrument and causer PPs are ...
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Adaptation at the Syntax-Semantics Interface: Evidence From a Vernacular Structure. [PDF]
Lang SpeechBlanchette F +3 more
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