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"Quelque Chose...De Remarquable" in English-French Acquisition: Mandatory, Informationally Encapsulated Computations in Second Language Interpretation

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Dekydtspotter, Laurent; Hathorn, Jon C. – Second Language Research, 2005

We discuss the results of an experiment that investigates English-French learners' interpretation of quantifiers with detachable restrictions. Such quantifiers are ungrammatical in English. We investigate aspects of interpretation that rely on a highly idiosyncratic interface between grammar and general principles of conversational cooperation in…

Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Interlanguage, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar

Strategies of Communication through Lexical Avoidance in the Speech and Writing of Second Language Teachers and Learners and in Translation.

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Blum, Shoshana; Levenston, Eddie – 1977

In a recent paper (1977) Levenston and Blum suggested that lexical simplification operates according to universal principles, and that these derive from the individual's semantic competence in his mother tongue. This paper examines the validity of this suggestion by means of a comparative study of lexical simplification in three different…

Descriptors: Classification, Hebrew, Interlanguage, Language Instruction

Discourse-Completion as a Technique for Studying Lexical Features of Interlanguage. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 15.

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Levenston, Eddie A.; Blum, Shoshana – 1978

After a survey of current methods of studying lexical acquisition, none of which are really suitable for studying how specific words are acquired and used by adult learners and how such usage differs from that of native speakers, a method is proposed for the study of such qualitative aspects of second language lexical acquisition. Learners are…

Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Grammar, Interlanguage