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Exceptional learners and ultimate attainment in second language acquisition
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Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
Language, 1992David Birdsong
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Analyzing variability in L2 ultimate attainment
Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 2021Abstract Ultimate attainment is typically more heterogeneous among second-language (L2) learners than among native speakers (e.g. Bley-Vroman, 1990). The present study offers a suite of simple analytical procedures aimed at exploring types and loci of variability in L2 attainment vis-à-vis those in the corresponding first language (L1), with special ...
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ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT IN L2 PHONOLOGY
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999Within both first and second language acquisition research, a critical or sensitive period for complete attainment has largely been substantiated in phonological studies, although it is questionable whether age should be examined in isolation from sociopsychological influences and the extent of exposure to the second language.
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Fossilization in Second Language Performance: The Concern of Ultimate Attainment
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2023The issue of fossilization has been a concern for researchers, in the area of second language acquisition, many of whom have investigated its possible causes, in what form they appear, and at what age. However, it is evident that second language learners fail to reach native-like competence in the target language.
Ifeanyi A. Uche +2 more
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Ultimate attainment in Spanish spirantization
Spanish in Context, 2018AbstractThis study examines the acquisition of the Spanish spirantization of /b/, /d/ and /g/ by a group of very advanced L2 learners who immigrated to Spain from the United States and have lived in central Spain for many years. While spirantization has received considerable attention in previous L2 research on Spanish, the participants in previous ...
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AGE AND ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT IN THE PRONUNCIATION OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997This paper reports on two studies that addressed the issue of ultimate attainment by late second language learners. The aim of the studies, which included a carefully screened group of highly successful Dutch learners of English in their designs, was to determine whether or not late second language learners who had achieved a nativelike performance in ...
Theo Bongaerts +3 more
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Ultimate attainment in bilingual first language acquisition
Lingua, 2015Abstract Montrul, 2008 , Montrul, 2011 has recently argued that heritage languages are acquired incompletely. The present study analyzes longitudinal data of 24 German–Romance and Romance–Romance (French, Italian, Spanish) simultaneous bilingual children until the age of 4 or 5 who have been raised in otherwise monolingual countries where the ...
Malin Hager, Natascha Müller
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Centenarians and the ultimate age attainable by man
Nutrition Bulletin, 1988SummaryIn the past forty years there has been a nine‐fold increase in the number of centenarians in England and Wales, which is not explicable by genetic factors nor by population increase. The rise is accounted for by a “knock‐on” effect, since in each decade of life more individuals are living longer.
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Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: a prosodic approach
Second Language Research, 2006In this article, we argue against the Representational Deficit Hypothesis, according to which second language (L2) speakers can never acquire functional categories or features that are absent in the first language (L1), suggesting that fossilization is inevitable.
Heather Goad, Lydia White
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