The generative approach to second language (L2) acquisition (SLA) is a cognitive based theory of SLA that applies theoretical insights developed from...
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second-language acquisition (SLA) is to shed light on how people who already know one language learn a second language. The field of second-language acquisition...
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Second-language acquisition (SLA), sometimes called second-language learning—otherwise referred to as L2 (language 2) acquisition, is the process of learning...
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Generative artificial intelligence (Generative AI, GenAI, or GAI) is a subfield of artificial intelligence that uses generative models to produce text...
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psycholinguistics, and language acquisition, with additional extensions to topics including biolinguistics and music cognition. Generative grammar began in...
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Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain...
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The Language Acquisition Device (LAD) is a claim from language acquisition research proposed by Noam Chomsky in the 1960s. The LAD concept is a purported...
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Transformational grammar (redirect from Transformational-Generative Grammar)
transformational-generative grammar (TGG) was the earliest model of grammar proposed within the research tradition of generative grammar. Like current generative theories...
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both languages in the acquisition of a simultaneous bilingual. It may also occur from a mature speaker's first language (L1) to a second language (L2)...
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guide to second-language acquisition: Second-language acquisition – process by which people learn a second language. Second-language acquisition (often...
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Cognitive linguistics (section Generative grammar)
mathematical logic to the extent that inference cannot explain language acquisition. The generative conception of human cognition is also influential in cognitive...
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Statistical language acquisition, a branch of developmental psycholinguistics, studies the process by which humans develop the ability to perceive, produce...
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quarterly since 1990 and is devoted to studies of first language acquisition and second language acquisition. It was originally dedicated to work that was informed...
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Universal grammar (category Language acquisition)
[second language] acquisition is not a late-20th century invention," but rejects as "convenient" the interpretation of Bacon's dictum by generative grammarians...
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specializing in generative approaches to second language acquisition. She is currently a professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the...
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language. The process of second language writing has been an area of research in applied linguistics and second language acquisition theory since the middle...
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Innateness hypothesis (category Language acquisition)
of generative grammar and related approaches in linguistics. Arguments in favour include the poverty of the stimulus, the universality of language acquisition...
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Roumyana Slabakova (category CS1 Bulgarian-language sources (bg))
a linguist who established generative second language acquisition as a separate field. She wrote her thesis on acquisition of aspect, synthesizing recent...
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The generative study of second language acquisition (Vol. 14, pp. 279–301). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Archibald, L. (1998b) Second language phonology...
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generative approaches to second language acquisition. She is Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, as well as Second Language...
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Writing Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA) Generative Approaches...
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English language Radford, Andrew (UK, 1945–), syntax, generative grammar, child language acquisition Rael, Juan Bautista (United States, 1900–1993), phonology...
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Outline of linguistics (redirect from Language basic topics)
the study of language as an abstract object Generative linguistics – an approach which seeks to ground grammar in a specialized language module Formalism...
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European Second Language Association (EuroSLA) is a learned society for researchers with an interest in second language and second language acquisition. EuroSLA...
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reading in primary or second language with preschool children: Evidence of equal effectiveness for second-language vocabulary acquisition". Reading Research...
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In foreign language teaching, the generative principle reflects the human capacity to generate an infinite number of phrases and sentences from a finite...
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contrastive linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, language planning and policy...
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X-bar theory (category Generative syntax)
underlying system for language. X-bar theory offered a more elegant and economical solution, aligned with the thesis of generative grammar. X-bar theory...
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Linguistic distance (category Language acquisition)
linguistic contexts, such as second-language acquisition, historical linguistics, language-based conflicts, and the effects of language differences on trade....
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Suzanne Flynn (section Third language acquisition)
one of the key SLA specialists to start the GASLA (Generative Approaches to Second-Language Acquisition) conference. In 1996, Flynn, along with S.D. Epstein...
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