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Dunlap, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Learning new vocabulary words in a second language is a challenge for the adult learner, especially when the second language writing system differs from the first language writing system. According to the lexical quality hypothesis (Perfetti & Hart, 2001), there are three constituents to word-level knowledge: orthographic, phonological, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phonology, Semantics
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Reichle, Robert V. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
Previous studies using judgments of morphosyntactic errors have shown mixed evidence for a critical period for L2 acquisition (e.g., Birdsong & Molis, Journal of Memory and Language 44: 235-249, 2001, Johnson & Newport, Cognitive Psychology 21: 60-99, 1989). This study uses anomalies in the domain of information structure, the interface…
Descriptors: Grammar, Cognitive Psychology, Pragmatics, French