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Waldmann, Christian – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
This article examines the acquisition of embedded verb placement in Swedish children, focusing on Neg-V and V-Neg order. It is proposed that a principle of economy of movement creates an overuse of V-Neg order in embedded clauses and that the low frequency of the target-consistent Neg-V order in child-directed speech obstructs children from…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Swedish, Verbs, Phrase Structure
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Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Haman, Ewa; de López, Kristine Jensen; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Szczerbinski, Marcin; van Hout, Angeliek; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Gavarró, Anna; Hobbs, Erin; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Katsos, Napoleon; Kunnari, Sari; Nitsiou, Chrisa; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Parramon, Xavier; Sauerland, Uli; Torn-Leesik, Reeli; van der Lely, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This cross-linguistic study evaluates children's understanding of passives in 11 typologically different languages: Catalan, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish. The study intends to determine whether the reported gaps between the comprehension of active and passive and between short and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition
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Roberts, Leah; Liszka, Sarah Ann – Second Language Research, 2013
In this article, we report the results of a self-paced reading experiment designed to investigate the question of whether or not advanced French and German learners of English as a second language (L2) are sensitive to tense/aspect mismatches between a fronted temporal adverbial and the inflected verb that follows (e.g. *"Last week, James has…
Descriptors: Language Processing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, French
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Szubko-Sitarek, Weronika – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Research on bilingual word recognition suggests that lexical access is nonselective with respect to language, i.e., that word representations of both languages become active during recognition. One piece of evidence supporting nonselective access is that bilinguals recognize cognates (words that are identical or similar in form and meaning in two…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Word Recognition, Visual Perception, Language Research
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Perez, Elvira; Santiago, Julio; Palma, Alfonso; O'Seaghdha, Padraig G. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2007
This paper studies the reliability and validity of naturalistic speech errors as a tool for language production research. Possible biases when collecting naturalistic speech errors are identified and specific predictions derived. These patterns are then contrasted with published reports from Germanic languages (English, German and Dutch) and one…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English, German, Indo European Languages
Jordens, Peter – 1979
Speakers of languages without a surface case system tend, when learning German, to place predicate nominals erroneously in the accusative case when the verb is passive or the sentence governs a passive rather than an active situation. Three hypotheses are offered to explain this phenomenon: (1) the learner carries over the deep structure relations…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), College Students, Error Analysis (Language), German
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Delisle, Helga H. – Modern Language Journal, 1982
Presents and analyzes two studies designed to test native speaker reaction to certain types of errors that speakers of English make when learning German. Aim was to establish the role of the medium, spoken or written, in evaluation of errors. Results show overall ratings of errors in written and spoken language are similar, although with…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), German, Language Research, Native Speakers
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Kasper, Gabriele – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents an analysis of German learners' pragmatic errors in English, based on their use of speech acts and gambits. (AM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German
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Politzer, Robert L. – Modern Language Journal, 1978
A pilot study is described which illustrates a methodology that can be used in determining the relative importance of different error types according to evaluations made by native speakers and presents preliminary results concerning the relative importance attached by native German teenagers to errors committed in German by English speakers. (SW)
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), German, Grammar, Language Instruction
Luelsdorff, Phillip A.; Eyland, E. Ann – IRAL, 1989
Investigates the acquisition of selected English short and long vowel spellings by German learners of English in order to answer the questions: who acquires the short and long vowel spellings (a,e,i), and when and what governs their order of acquisition? Statistical data is included. (Author/OD)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), German, Language Research
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Thomaneck, Jurgen K. A. – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
Describes a study that tests whether the sociolinguistic differences observed in essays in German are a carry-over from the native Scottish English. A previous study is described which tested the hypothesis that social class influences linguistic behavior and could be a cause for errors in a foreign language. (AMH)
Descriptors: Adults, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language)
Chitoran, Dumitru, Ed. – 1976
A collection of 32 conference papers is presented as reflecting the state of the art in contrastive linguistics studies of English and other languages. The reports cover the following topics: 5 English contrastive projects (Romanian-English, Yugoslav-Serbo-Croatian English, English-Hungarian, and Finnish-English analysis, and a project from the…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), Finnish
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Clahsen, Harald; Hadler, Meike; Weyerts, Helga – Journal of Child Language, 2004
This study examines the production of regular and irregular participle forms of German with high and low frequencies using a speeded production task. 40 children in two age groups (five- to seven-year olds, eleven- to twelve-year olds) and 35 adult native speakers of German listened to stem forms of verbs presented in a sentential context and were…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Verbs, Morphology (Languages)
Fisiak, Jacek, Ed.; Drozdzial, Krystyna, Ed. – 1984
A collection of 14 papers in contrastive linguistics includes: "Some Comments on Language Data in Contrastive Analysis" (Ruta Nagucka); "Contrastive Sociolinguistics Reconsidered" (Karol Janicki); "Variations in Polish Nasal /e/: A Contribution to the Development of Contrastive Sociolinguistic Methodology" (Jane…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Error Analysis (Language), German
Cenoz, Jasone, Ed.; Hufeisen, Britta, Ed.; Jessner, Ulrike, Ed. – 2001
This volume focuses on the psycholinguistic aspects of language transfer when three languages are in contact, and provides an overview of the state of the art in cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition. This edited volume contains, in addition to an introduction, ten chapters. Chapter titles include the following: "The Effect of…
Descriptors: Age, Error Analysis (Language), German, Interlanguage
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