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An Investigation of Morphological Awareness in Japanese Learners of English
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Hayashi, Yuko; Murphy, Victoria – Language Learning Journal, 2011
Developing morphological awareness (MA) is an essential component of vocabulary growth, given that it can contribute to enhanced depth of vocabulary knowledge and provides a pathway to deeper associations with more members of a word family. Despite the considerable body of vocabulary research, specific relationships between different aspects of MA…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary Development
The Acquisition of Progressive and Resultative Meanings of the Imperfective Aspect Marker by L2 Learners of Japanese: Transfer, Universals, or Multiple Factors?
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Sugaya, Natsue; Shirai, Yasuhiro – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
It has been observed that there is a strong association between the inherent (lexical) aspect of verbs and the acquisition of tense-aspect morphology (the aspect hypothesis; Andersen & Shirai, 1994). To investigate why such an association is observed, this study examined the influence of inherent aspect and learners' first language (L1) on the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Morphemes, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers
From the Lexicon to Expectations About Kinds: A Role for Associative Learning
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Colunga, Eliana; Smith, Linda B. – Psychological Review, 2005
In the novel noun generalization task, 2 1/2-year-old children display generalized expectations about how solid and nonsolid things are named, extending names for never-before-encountered solids by shape and for never-before-encountered nonsolids by material. This distinction between solids and nonsolids has been interpreted in terms of an…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Generalization, Nouns, Toddlers