The favorable gains gleaned from the provision of pre-task planning time (PTP) have struck a chord with SLA researchers as they try to manipulate task features to promote language production and development. In a similar vein, the present study is a two-fold attempt to first compare the effect of the length of pre-task planning time on discourse-analytic measures in narrative written production...

Let X be a compact connected subset of Rd with non-empty interior, and T : X → X a real analytic full branch expanding map with countably many branches. Elements of a thermodynamic formalism for such systems are developed, including criteria for compactness of transfer operators acting on spaces of bounded holomorphic functions. In particular a new sufficient condition for the existence of a T ...