This paper reports four experiments that test whether persistent problems of second- language (L2) learners with L2 inflection, such as case or subject–verb agreement, are the …
C Bentz, B Winter - Language Dynamics and Change, 2013 - brill.com
In this paper, we provide quantitative evidence showing that languages spoken by many second language speakers tend to have relatively small nominal case systems or no …
L White - Bilingualism: language and cognition, 2003 - cambridge.org
This paper provides a case study of the fossilized endstate L2 English grammar of an adult native speaker of Turkish. Results are presented from production data (over 3400 …
A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study …
S Kirby, M Tamariz - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Language is the primary repository and mediator of human collective knowledge. A central question for evolutionary linguistics is the origin of the combinatorial structure of language …
SM Gass, P Spinner, J Behney - Salience in second language …, 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
When considering how salience is used within the context of second language acquisition (SLA), there are at least two angles from which to consider the construct. On the one hand …
Languages spoken in larger populations are relatively simple. A possible explanation for this is that languages with a greater number of speakers tend to also be those with higher …
Abstract Öztekin, B. 2019. Typical and atypical language development in Turkish-Swedish bilingual children aged 4–7. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 25. 350 pp. Uppsala: Acta …
BD Schwartz - Lingue e linguaggio, 2004 - rivisteweb.it
The field of language acquisition has been enormously influenced by the generative enterprise. The conceptual core of generative grammar is the notion of poverty of the …