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Direct linkWu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers
Peer reviewedKrashen, Stephen D. – Language Learning, 1978
Cites evidence showing that the "natural order" found using the Bilingual Syntax Measure to measure morpheme order is not an artifact of the test. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Tests, Morphemes, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedGoldschneider, Jennifer M.; DeKeyser, Robert M. – Language Learning, 2001
Some research has posited a natural order of acquisition of English grammatical morphemes common to all learners of English as a Second Language. This meta-analysis investigated whether a combination of five determinants--perceptual salience, semantic complexity, morphophonological regularity, syntactic category, and frequency) accounts for a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Morphemes, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedPorter, John H. – Language Learning, 1977
Speech samples were elicited by means of the Bilingual Syntax Measure from eleven children ages 27-48 months, covering a wide span of linguistic development. Presence or absence of eleven functors was scored in obligatory occasions and an acquisition sequence determined using three methods of speech analysis. (CHK)
Descriptors: Child Language, Function Words, Language Acquisition, Language Research
