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Direct linkEllis, Nick C. – Modern Language Journal, 2019
Cognition is not just 'in the head'; it extends well beyond the skull and the skin. Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science views cognition as being embodied, environmentally embedded, enacted, encultured, and socially distributed. The Douglas Fir Group (2016) likewise recognizes languages as emergent, social, integrated phenomena. Language is the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Science, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Römer, Ute; O'Donnell, Matthew Brook; Ellis, Nick C. – Modern Language Journal, 2014
This article examines second language (L2) learner knowledge of English verb-argument constructions (VACs), for example, the "V 'against' n" construction. It investigates to what extent constructions underpin L2 learners' linguistic competence, how VAC mental representations in native speakers and learners differ, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Verbs, Linguistic Competence
Ellis, Nick C.; Ferreira-Junior, Fernando – Modern Language Journal, 2009
This article considers effects of construction frequency, form, function, and prototypicality on second language acquisition (SLA). It investigates these relationships by focusing on naturalistic SLA in the European Science Foundation corpus (Perdue, 1993) of the English verb-argument constructions (VACs): verb locative (VL), verb object locative…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Statistical Distributions, Computational Linguistics
Ellis, Nick C. – Modern Language Journal, 2008
This article outlines an emergentist account whereby the limited end-state typical of adult second language learners results from dynamic cycles of language use, language change, language perception, and language learning in the interactions of members of language communities. In summary, the major processes are: 1. "Usage leads to change": High…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Cues, Language Variation, Grammar
Wulff, Stefanie; Ellis, Nick C.; Romer, Ute; Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Leblanc, Chelsea J. – Modern Language Journal, 2009
The aspect hypothesis (Andersen & Shirai, 1994) proposes that language learners are initially influenced by the inherent semantic aspect in the acquisition of tense and aspect (TA) morphology. Perfective past emerges earlier with accomplishments and achievements and progressive with activities. Although this hypothesis has been extensively…
Descriptors: Semantics, Morphemes, Second Language Learning, Adult Learning
Peer reviewedPennington, Martha C.; Ellis, Nick C. – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Reviews the nature and functions of prosody, and contrasts English and Cantonese for this feature of language as background for two experimental studies. Thirty Cantonese advanced speakers of English were tested for their recognition memory of English sentences in which prosody-cued meaning contrasts in otherwise identical sentence pairs. Results…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Cantonese, College Students, Cues
