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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"acceptability judgment"”.
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Korean/English intrasentential code-switching: Matrix language assignment and linguistic constraints
… data collected by means of interviews and acceptability judgment tests.
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Native and Non-native Grammars of Chinese Gapping-like Verb Ellipsis
… The present study investigates both offline acceptability judgment and online production of Chinese gapping-like constructions by native MC speakers and L2 learners. It sets off to explore whether the similarities and differences between Chinese and English affect the developmental course and …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… tasks are employed in this study: an acceptability judgment task for the four Mandarin nominal prope1iies and a � fill-in-the-blank task for. the semantic selection of Mandarin classifiers. Our results from the acceptability judgment task suggest that Ll transfer is not absolute in L2 …
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Effects of input-and output-based instruction on the acquisition of English articles
… The online pretest and posttest comprised an acceptability judgment task and an elicited production task to measure L2 participants’ understanding of definiteness and genericity. Each instructional packet included English article instructional videos and four activities. The input-based …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… in two different studies. Results of two written acceptability judgment tasks and an oral picture description task have shown that 1st person dative clitics with the role of goal are still productive in written and oral discourses. Third person dative clitics and datives with the roles of …
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Chinese rhythm in second language acquisition
… were conducted. The first two studies employed Acceptability Judgment Tasks (AJTs) to explore how native speakers, heritage learners, and L2 learners perceive prosodic constraints in noun-noun (NN) compounds and verb-object (VO) phrases. The results revealed that native speakers were very …
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Causativity in Chinese and its representations in English, Japanese and Korean speakers' L2 Chinese grammars.
… consists of a cloze test, a production test, an acceptability judgment test and a comprehension test. It involves 55 English speakers, 56 Japanese speakers, 73 Korean speakers and 28 native Chinese as controls. Both developmental patterns and variations between different language groups are …
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Effects of positive evidence, indirect negative evidence and form-function transparency on second language acquisition: Evidence from L2 Chinese and L2 Thai
… participants were recruited to complete an acceptability judgment task and a self-paced reading task. It is found that both Chinese and Thai learners could perform native-like in their acceptance of TL word orders since early stages of acquisition. However, it took them until an advanced …
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L2 Representations and Processing of Chinese Nominal Phrases by Speakers of Classifier and Non-Classifier Languages
… (dis)agreement. A self-paced reading task and an acceptability judgment task were administered in this study. The L2 participants were from different L1 backgrounds (i.e., English: a non-classifier language; Korean: a classifier language). The results of this research do not support the IH, …
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Representation and Acquisition of Kind Reference in L2 English
… a 48-item Fill in the Gaps Task and a 64-item Acceptability Judgment Task demonstrated that L2 learners were generally more successful in their production and acceptability judgments of nominals for kind reference when the morphosyntactic manifestation of kind reference in the target language …
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The influence of task factors and language background on morphological processing in Spanish
… 1, a written nonce verb production and acceptability judgment task, indicated that speakers are more likely to use and give higher acceptability ratings to regularly-inflected patterns, though irregular patterns do show some degree of productivity depending on those patterns’ type …
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Acquisition of Causative Directed Manner of Motion by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
… language acquisition study informed by a picture acceptability judgment task and a translation task; and thirdly, a brief discussion of the pedagogical implications of this study in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.The causative directed manner of motion events in Chinese behave differently …
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Spanish-Speaking Learners' Acquisition of English VPE and WH-Extraction Out of VPE
… (VPE) and wh-extraction out of VPE, four acceptability judgment tasks (AJT) are administered among four groups: three groups of Spanish speakers and a control group of English native speakers. The AJTs were run to investigate research questions related to the L2 acquisition issues: (1) Do …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… reading task, this time combined with an acceptability rating task. In the acceptability rating L1 and L2 speakers show the same preference for the verb-adjacent placement of the particle over the non-adjacent placement after the direct object. However, this preference for adjacency is …
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Tracing language variation in Spanish: A multidisciplinary approach
… to analyze participants’ production of DOM. An acceptability judgment task (AJT) served to test subtle knowledge of DOM variation. Finally, a reading task with eye-tracking examined participant’s online comprehension. The reading task aimed to examine whether DOM variation is already part of …
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First and Second Generation New York City Bilinguals: What Is the Role of Input in Their Collocational Knowledge of English and Spanish?
… of experimental behavior by bilinguals in acceptability judgment tasks. Three groups of English-Spanish bilinguals, and a group of English monolinguals and one of Spanish monolinguals were tested on site in Mexico City, New York City (NYC), and Puerto Rico. The three bilingual groups were: …