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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Language transfer"”.
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Quantification of first language transfer effect on second language acquisition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
… performed better with UG-based properties than language-specific properties. The results also reveal the effects of transfer from different languages in interpretations of Korean core binding by bilingual groups; however, bilinguals did not show expected transfer with language-specific interface …
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The sensitive period for second language acquisition: An experimental study of age effects on universal grammar and language transfer
… test the Sensitive Period Hypothesis for second language acquisition and to find out its nature. Speed (reaction time) of responses was measured in addition to grammaticality judgment so that the subjects' conscious monitoring of linguistic processes could be kept at a minimum. The reaction time …
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Native and nonnative speakers' syntactic knowledge of English dative verbs assessed in grammaticality judgments and multiple choice tests
… and Korean learners of English as a second language made grammaticality judgments about dative sentences in English. This part of the thesis reexamined the roles of markedness and language transfer in the context of Korean as the first language of English learners. Unlike findings in …
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A Contrastive Analysis of Persian and English Reported Speech and the Effects of Interference and Transfer in Learning English as A Foreign Language
Problem. By equating the processes of child first language acquisition, with those of adult foreign language learning, some scholars have been tempted to minimize the use of native language transfer strategy used by adults while performing in a foreign language. Nevertheless, there are some ot
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Phonological transfer in second language perception and production
… provides an account of how a speaker's first language (L1) influences his/her second language (L2) speech, an effect also known as cross-language transfer. The account of transfer proposed here relies on theoretical constructs and techniques from linguistics, psycholinguistics and, to a …
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Music, Language, and Rhythmic Timing
… & Davis, 2012). Despite implications of music-language transfer effects for improving language outcomes (Gordon et al., 2015), proposals that shared neural and cognitive resources underlie music and speech rhythm perception (e.g., Tierney & Kraus, 2014) are not yet substantiated. The present …
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Crosslinguistic influence in the speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals
… in an attempt to report on factors that affect language transfer between Hungarian and English and on the extent 1.1 and 1.2 lexical elements are integrated into the speech in either language. An attempt is made to classify the functions of the integrated lexical elements. Furthermore, it is …
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Transfers from Venetan and Trentino dialects in the processing of English phrasal verbs
The existing literature on bilingualism, second language learning and transfers appears to have focused primarily on standard languages, with only a few exceptions. In the present study, we elected to use phrasal verbs as a means of investigating dialect-to-language transfer in dialect speakers …
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… component of communicative competence that language learners need to acquire. In recent years, there has been much interest in measuring this kind of competence in such communicative acts as apologizing by asking the learners to react in given situations by using appropriate strategies. …
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Reading achievement in Kenya: the language factor
… living in African communities where several languages are used and where the language of instruction at school is not their home language. Its focus is the dynamic between languages spoken at home and in the school environment, particularly, how the home language may affect early reading …
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An investigation into subtitling in French and Spanish heritage cinema
… relation to changing models of translation and language transfer as well as to developments in the study of audiovisual culture. The increasing importance of subtitling in recent decades, together with rapid technological changes, have had a great impact on subtitling practice, making it …
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Cohesion and coherence in Chinese ESL writing
… that cohesion and coherence may vary across languages and cultures. This study examined cohesion and coherence features of Chinese ESL writings, explored the similarities and the differences between Chinese and English, and investigated the role of language transfer and interference in …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… speakers who are learning Portuguese as a third language (L3). This work contributes to a better understanding of which factors determine cross-linguistic influence in the multilingual mind and what the role of previously acquired languages is in the acquisition of any language beyond the L2. The …
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Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
… dialects; universal principles and dominant language transfer (English). A secondary research question of this study investigates whether there is a universal preference for encliticization. </p> <p>Participants completed two experimental tasks. The first was an Oral Elicited Imitation task …
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A grammatical and pragmatic analysis of English passives in second language acquisition
… results are accounted for in terms of not only language transfer and but also a socio-cultural factor, prestige of a passive sentence with respect to an active sentence. Of particular interest is the existence of a hierarchy of acceptability in pragmatic errors. Analysis of medio-passive errors …
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… and L2 learners of Mandarin Chi-nese. Heritage language speakers are exposed to minority languages from birth, and they are exposed to a majority language later in life (Polinsky & Kagan, 2007), which then causes the L2 to become the dominant language. Other L2 learners tend to retain their L1 …
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
Learners’ native language (L1) influences their knowledge and use of second language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and …
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A contrastive analysis of the English and Nepali past tenses and an error analysis of Nepali learners' use of the English past tenses
… as different contexts, the past perfect in both languages is found to express background information. In the analysis of the Nepali past tenses, one of the major arguments is that the traditionally termed `unknown past' does not have `past' as part of its basic meaning. The main function of this …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… of definite articles in both of their languages using a battery of tests that require them to draw on different linguistic abilities. These three groups include native English speakers who learned Spanish after adolescence, native Spanish speakers who learned English after adolescence …
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