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All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year AND OR AND NOT All fields Title Creator / Publisher Keyword Year Sort by creator [A → Z]' creator [Z → A]' publishing year ↑ (asc)' publishing year ↓ (desc)' title [A → Z]' title [Z → A]' Simple Search Page: 1 2 Hits 1 – 20 of 23 1 Reading without spaces between words : eye movements in reading Thai Kasisopa, Benjawan. - 2011 BASE Show details 2 One head, two languages : speech production and perception in Greek-English bilinguals Antoniou, Mark. - 2010 BASE Show details 3 The acquisition of English as a second language by a Japanese primary school child : a longitudinal study from a processability viewpoint Yamaguchi, Yumiko. - 2010 Abstract: This thesis aims to investigate the acquisitional path of English as a second language (ESL) by a Japanese primary school child within the framework of Processability Theory (PT) (Pienemann 1998; Pienemann, Di Biase, and Kawaguchi 2005). Recent developments in linguistic theories, such as Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) (e.g., Bresnan 2001), incorporate now new dimensions such as the interface between pragmatic-discourse functions and syntax. These have not been sufficiently investigated in ESL, especially through developmental (i.e., longitudinal) data. PT proposes three new hypotheses, which clarify the language-specific bases of syntactic development, the acquisition of sentential topic/focus, and the development of non-canonical mapping of argument on functional structures in the second language learner. These guided my investigation. The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) to provide a more detailed description of morphological and syntactic development as observed in ESL acquisition by a Japanese primary school child; and (2) to test, for English L2, two of the new hypotheses in the extension of PT, namely the Unmarked Alignment Hypothesis and the Topic Hypothesis (Pienemann, et al, 2005), against this longitudinal data set. The issues I focus on in this investigation include the relative timing of the evolution of tense (-ed) and aspect (-ing) marking, a closer examination of the acquisition of plural -s in different linguistic contexts, the timing of the acquisition of possessive marking (-’s) with head nouns, and the development of verb phrasal morphology in English L2. Further, the developmental stages for English syntax are examined with longitudinal ESL data, according to the new PT hypotheses as represented in current PT literature (Bettoni and Di Biase, in press; Di Biase and Kawaguchi, in press; Pienemann, et al, 2005). In order to achieve these goals, I conducted a two-year longitudinal study on a Japanese child learning English in Australia from age 5;8 to 7;8. Full distributional analyses of speech data are carried out for a set of English morphological and syntactic structures hypothesized to emerge in the current processability hierarchies. Results show that the acquisitional path of ESL by the Japanese child is generally compatible with the current developmental PT framework. The findings in this study also demonstrate that English declaratives and interrogatives develop in rather independent manners. Further, this study shows that syntax develops faster than morphology at the early stages, while morphology develops faster than syntax at the later stages in ESL acquisition. It is also found that there are some connections between the development of interrogatives and morphological development. By testing the extended processability hierarchies for English on longitudinal data, this study contributes to second language acquisition on account of PT’s important theoretical position in the field. It also contributes to the development of ESL education as it provides a more detailed developmental map for possible pedagogical design, particularly in the planning of educational programs for primary school children. Keyword: children; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); English language; interlanguage (language learning); Japanese speakers; lexical functional grammar (LFG); processability theory (PT); second language acquisition; study and teaching URL: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/489387 BASE Hide details 4 Psycholinguistic dimensions of translation competence into English as a second language : developing a diagnostic tool Wakim, Berta. - 2010 BASE Show details 5 Legal translation in Saudi Arabia : a contrastive analysis of linguistic challenges encountered by practitioners Bostanji, Abdulfatah J.. - 2010 BASE Show details 6 The acquisition of English passive constructions by Mandarin speakers : a developmental perspective Wang, Kenny. - 2010 BASE Show details 7 The effect of spectral tilt on infants' speech perception : implications for infants with hearing loss Beach, Elizabeth F.. - 2009 BASE Show details 8 The acquisition of numeral classifiers by Malay children Salehuddin, Khazriyati. - 2009 BASE Show details 9 Lesbian language, memory, and the social construction of inclusion Kleinert, Veronica. - 2009 BASE Show details 10 Gestural sense : art, neuroscience and linguistic embodiment Denham, Benjiman. - 2009 BASE Show details 11 The role of L2 vocabulary expansion in the perception and production of Australian English vowels by adult native speakers of Japanese Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.. - 2009 BASE Show details 12 An exploration of early Christian communities as 'scholastic communities' through a study of the vocabulary of 'teaching' in 1 Corinthians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus Smith, Claire S.. - 2009 BASE Show details 13 Tones and vowels in Cantonese infant directed speech : hyperarticulation during the first 12 months of infancy Xu, Nan. - 2008 BASE Show details 14 Early vs. late Serbian-English bilinguals' responses to two Australian English vowel contrasts Krebs-Lazendic, Lidija. - 2008 BASE Show details 15 A cognitive approach to foreign-inspired Chinese terms Li, Suogui. - 2008 BASE Show details 16 Speech perception, phonological sensitivity, and articulation in early vocabulary development Schwarz, Iris-Corinna. - 2007 BASE Show details 17 One child, two languages : bilingual first language acquisition in Japanese and English Itani-Adams, Yuki. - 2007 BASE Show details 18 Lexical tone perception and production : the role of language and musical background Schwanhäuβer, Barbara. - 2007 BASE Show details 19 Intersections between language retention and identities in young bilingual children Jones-Diaz, Criss. - 2007 BASE Show details 20 The effects of explicit spelling lesson programs on performance outcomes of upper primary students Leonard, Thelma M.. - 2007 BASE Show details Page: 1 2

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