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Laryngeal systems in Dutch, English and German : a contrastive-phonological study on second and third language acquisition Ghent University
Although Dutch, English and German all have a phonological contrast between voiced and voiceless plosives, they differ in the way these stops are realized: while English and German contrast voiceless aspirated with phonetically voiceless stops, Dutch has a contrast between voiceless unaspirated and prevoiced stops. This study compares these three laryngeal stop systems and examines the acquisition of the English and German systems by a group of ...
Review of Gudmestad, Aarnes; Edmonds, Amanda (Eds.) (2018). Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition University of Antwerp
Developing non-native vowel representations: a study on child second language acquisition Ghent University
Identifying the Neural Substrates of Second Language Acquisition: What is the Contribution from Functional and Structural MRI? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) proposes that after a certain age it becomes increasingly difficult to acquire a (second) language. However, due to a number of inconsistent data patterns obtained from psycholinguistic studies, current views of CPH have become rather mixed, and the controversy about the existence of such a limited but evolutionarily stable learning period remains as intense as ever. In the present paper, we discuss how ...
German modals in second language acquisition: a constructionist approach University of Antwerp
Descriptions of modal verbs in learner grammars often evoke quite abstract semantic categories (focusing on dynamic, deontic and epistemic modality) in generalized usage contexts. Yet, in concrete utterances, modal verbs not only serve highly specific pragmatic and discourse-structural functions, but can also be shown to occur in (quasi-)formulaic sequences with specific lexical elements. These more idiosyncratic functional and formal properties ...
L'acquisition de la finitude verbale en français langue seconde Vrije Universiteit Brussel
L'acquisition de la morphologie verbale joue un rôle central dans le développement de l'interlangue des apprenants L2. Cet article analysera l'acquisition progressive de la finitude verbale par des apprenants néerlandophones du FL2. Il se donne les trois objectifs suivants : 1- évaluer si l'itinéraire acquisitionnel des apprenants néerlandophones correspond à celui des suédophones, que Bartning et Schlyter (2004) ont pris comme référence pour ...
Difficulty and Complexity of Language Features and Second Language Instruction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The question whether some second language (L2) features (forms, items,
structures, patterns, rules) and, if so, which types of features, are more affected
by instruction or are more effectively instructed than others has received
increasing attention in applied linguistics and SLA research since the mid-1990s
(VanPatten, 1994; Spada, 1997). For SLA researchers, knowing how the nature
of the input stimulus interacts with ...
structures, patterns, rules) and, if so, which types of features, are more affected
by instruction or are more effectively instructed than others has received
increasing attention in applied linguistics and SLA research since the mid-1990s
(VanPatten, 1994; Spada, 1997). For SLA researchers, knowing how the nature
of the input stimulus interacts with ...