This study investigated how English learners of Korean weigh multiple acoustic cues, namely VOT and f0, in perceiving the Korean stop laryngeal contrast. This question is of interest because VOT is more central to this contrast in English relative to Korean. Our goal was to examine whether L2 cueweighting strategies were influenced by individual differences in cue-weighting strategies in L1 and...

This study aims to explore the frequency and effectiveness of summarization strategies used by Turkish EFL learners in both their L1 L2 processes. Some 80 participants completed a self-report questionnaire summary writing task languages. Results revealed moderate use processes, with positive correlations found between certain criteria. These findings highlight importance teaching variety improv...

L1 English and L1 Taiwan Mandarin discourselength English speech data extracted from the TWNAESOP corpus was analyzed using a perceptually-based hierarchy of prosodic phrase group (HPG) framework in order to investigate similarities and differences in the organization of discourse-level speech planning in English across L1 (native) and L2 (non-native) speaker groups. While both groups appear to...

This longitudinal study tracked the neuro-cognitive changes associated with second language (L2) grammar learning in adults in order to investigate how L2 processing is shaped by a learner's first language (L1) background and L2 proficiency. Previous studies using event-related potentials (ERPs) have argued that late L2 learners cannot elicit a P600 in response to L2 grammatical structures that...

this is a longitudinal case study of two farsi-speaking children learning english: ‘bernard’ and ‘melissa’, who were 7;4 and 8;4 at the start of data collection. the research deals with the initial state and further development in the child second language (l2) acquisition of syntax regarding the presence or absence of copula as a functional category, as well as the role and degree of l1 influe...

We present an efficient dynamic programming algorithm for synchronous parsing of sentence pairs from a parallel corpus with a given word alignment. Unless there is a large proportion of words without a correspondence in the other language, the worstcase complexity is significantly reduced over standard synchronous parsing. The theoretical complexity results are corroborated by a quantitative ex...

according to a basic prediction made by the revised hierarchical model (rhm,kroll & stewart, 1994), there is no l2 conceptual connection at the beginning stages of language learning as l2 learners mostly rely on l1 conceptual connections to retrieve the meaning of the l2 words.with increasing proficiency, however, there would be a direct access from l2 to the conceptual system. available litera...