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Finding modal force
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How Grammars Grow: Argument Structure and the Acquisition of Non-Basic Syntax
Perkins, Laurel. - 2019
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An Affiliative Model of Early Lexical Learning
Tripp, Alayo. - 2019
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Pathways to Proficiency: Examining the Coherence of Initial Second Language Acquisition Patterns within the Language Difficulty Categorization Framework
Masters, Megan. - 2018
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SECOND LANGUAGE LEXICAL REPRESENTATION AND PROCESSING OF MANDARIN CHINESE TONES
Pelzl, Eric. - 2018
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The role of input in discovering presuppositions triggers: Figuring out what everybody already knew
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TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRACTICE AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ACQUISITION AND RETENTION OF L2 MANDARIN TONAL WORD PRODUCTION
Li, Man. - 2017
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The acquisition of adjunct control: grammar and processing
Gerard, Juliana. - 2016
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EXPLICIT WRITTEN CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK AND LANGUAGE APTITUDE IN SLA: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF LINGUISTIC ACCURACY
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Content-based instruction in the context of Chinese immersion: An exploration of corrective feedback
Yao, Qin. - 2016
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THE ROLE OF RULES, EXAMPLES AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ACQUISITION OF DECLARATIVE AND PROCEDURAL SECOND LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE
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Early Phonological Predictors of Toddler Language Outcomes
Gerhold, Kayla. - 2015
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Comparing Second Language Learners' Sensitivity to Arabic Derivational and Inflectional Morphology at the Lexical and Sentence Levels
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USING NEW MEASURES OF IMPLICIT L2 KNOWLEDGE TO STUDY THE INTERFACE OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT KNOWLEDGE
Suzuki, Yuichi. - 2015
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Computational modeling of the role of discourse information in language production and language acquisition
Orita, Naho. - 2015
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Verb Learning Under Guidance
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Comparative psychosyntax
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Syntactic Bootstrapping in the Acquisition of Attitude Verbs
Abstract: Attitude verbs (e.g., think, want, hope) report mental states. Learning the meanings of attitude verbs may be difficult for language learners for several reasons; including the abstractness of the concepts that they refer to, and the linguistic properties. In this dissertation, we investigate the learning process for these words, by looking at an asymmetry that has been observed in the acquisition trajectory: want, which refers to desires, has been claimed to be acquired before think, which refers to beliefs. We explore this asymmetry in attitude verb acquisition in two ways: by comparing interpretation of think and want, controlling for several methodological differences in the way they have previously been tested; and by investigating children’s sensitivity to syntactic distribution in interpreting and learning attitude verbs. We start with an observation that previous tasks comparing interpretation of think and want often tested these verbs under different experimental conditions. Tests of think required processing additional demands; including a conflict with reality, and a conflict with the child’s own mental state. In experiments 1-3, we test interpretation of want adding these additional task demands; and find that children are still adult-like in interpreting want sooner than they have reliably shown to be adult-like in interpreting think. In Experiment 4, we directly compare think and want in the same experimental context. We still find adult-like behavior with want and not think. These studies demonstrate that the observed asymmetry between think and want reflects a real acquisition asymmetry, and is not due to experimental artifacts. After establishing in experiments 1-4 that the asymmetry between think and want reflects real acquisition facts, we explore children’s learning mechanism for attitude verbs in experiments 5 and 6. We test children’s sensitivity to syntactic distribution in hypothesizing an unknown attitude verb’s syntax. In experiment 5, we find that children use syntactic complement to interpret sentences with a potentially unknown attitude verb. In experiment 6, we show that they integrate syntactic information into their semantic representation for this new verb; and continue to hypothesize a meaning based on syntactic frame in future experiences with the same verb.
Keyword: Attitude Verbs; Language Acquisition; Linguistics; Semantics; Syntactic Bootstrapping; Theory of Mind
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17094
https://doi.org/10.13016/M2206J
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The Influences of Aptitude, Learning Context, and Language Difficulty Categorization on Foreign Language Proficiency
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Bayesian Model of Categorical Effects in L1 and L2 Speech Processing
Kronrod, Yakov. - 2014
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