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Longbottom, William George – ProQuest LLC, 2019
One of the most researched challenges in learning Spanish is the acquisition and use of the past aspect, namely, the preterit and imperfect. L2 learners encounter this challenge due to differences in how native English and Spanish speakers view past events. Numerous studies on the Spanish past aspect have analyzed L2 learners' past aspectual…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Semantics
Tu, Yuancheng – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The fundamental problem faced by automatic text understanding in Natural Language Processing (NLP) is to identify semantically related pieces of text and integrate them together to compute the meaning of the whole text. However, the principle of compositionality runs into trouble very quickly when real language is examined with its frequent…
Descriptors: English, Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing
Fine, Alex Brabham – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A fundamental challenge for human cognition is perceiving and acting in a world in which the statistics that characterize available sensory data are non-stationary. This thesis focuses on this problem specifically in the domain of sentence comprehension, where linguistic variability poses computational challenges to the processes underlying…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Research, Syntax, Language Variation
Chan, Ho Leung – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a language processing perspective on the study of second language acquisition (SLA) of tense and aspect. Of special interest are the universal vis-a-vis language-specific dimensions of temporal and aspectual semantics involved. According to the Aspect Hypothesis (AH, e.g. Andersen & Shirai, 1994), the initial…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Rus, Dominik – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation investigates the acquisition of early verb inflection in child Slovenian from morphosyntactic and morphophonological perspectives. It centers on the phenomenon of root nonfinites, particularly the patterns of omission and substitution errors in verb inflection marking. It argues that every acquisition model needs to account…
Descriptors: Child Language, Verbs, Morphemes, Slavic Languages
Liao, Ern-Huei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem. The purpose of this study is to investigate positive and negative cross-linguistic transfer on EFL learners' phraseological competence in collocations and its relationship to learners' linguistic proficiency. Method. A quantitative study was conducted. Two instruments, multiple choice test and grammaticality judgment test, were…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Miyakoshi, Tomoko – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important part in second language learning, especially at intermediate-advanced levels, learners' difficulties with collocations have not been investigated in much detail so far. The present study examines ESL learners' use of verb-noun collocations, such as "take notes," "place an…
Descriptors: Verbs, Nouns, Pretests Posttests, Second Language Learning