Task‐induced brain functional connectivity as a representation of schema for mediating unsupervised and supervised learning dynamics in language acquisition
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DOI: 10.1002/brb3.2157
Abstract: Based on the schema theory advanced by Rumelhart and Norman, we shed light on the individual variability in brain dynamics induced by hybridization of learning methodologies, particularly alternating unsupervised learning and supervised learning in language… read more here.
Keywords: schema; language acquisition; brain; supervised learning ... See more keywords
Language acquisition as skill learning
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.04.001
Abstract: Language acquisition researchers have often viewed children as ‘mini-linguists,’ attempting to infer abstract knowledge of language from exposure to their native language. From this perspective, the challenge of acquisition can seem so formidable that meeting… read more here.
Keywords: language acquisition; skill learning; acquisition; language ... See more keywords
SCALa: A blueprint for computational models of language acquisition in social context
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104779
Abstract: Theories and data on language acquisition suggest a range of cues are used, ranging from information on structure found in the linguistic signal itself, to information gleaned from the environmental context or through social interaction.… read more here.
Keywords: information; language acquisition; computational models; blueprint computational ... See more keywords
Audiovisual speech perception and language acquisition in preterm infants: A longitudinal study.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.11.001
Abstract: BACKGROUND Preterm infants have a higher risk of language delay throughout childhood. The ability to integrate audiovisual speech information is associated with language acquisition in term infants; however, the relation is still unclear in preterm… read more here.
Keywords: term infants; language acquisition; language; preterm infants ... See more keywords
Onset age of second language acquisition and fractional anisotropy variation in multilingual young adults
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2020.100937
Abstract: Abstract The experience of speaking two languages, particularly the age of second language acquisition (L2AoA), has been robustly associated with differences in metrics indicative of white matter structure. However, bilingual language experience is complex, described… read more here.
Keywords: age second; age; language acquisition; second language ... See more keywords
Sacred language acquisition in superdiverse contexts
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DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2019.100751
Abstract: Abstract This article presents and discusses data which reveal the multilingual contexts of contemporary UK mosque schools offering Muslim children liturgical (Qur’anic) literacy acquisition. It contrasts significantly with data collected twenty years earlier from broadly… read more here.
Keywords: sacred language; language acquisition; acquisition superdiverse; contexts ... See more keywords
CHOICE OF WORDS MATTERS, BUT SO DOES SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY
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DOI: 10.1017/s0272263119000378
Abstract: The first is that incomplete acquisition fails to accurately characterize the process or outcome of heritage language acquisition. On this distinction, we are happy to accept Montrul and Silva-Corvalán’s clarification that incomplete acquisition is intended… read more here.
Keywords: acquisition; language acquisition; heritage language; process ... See more keywords
The discontinuity model: Statistical and grammatical learning in adult second-language acquisition
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DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1571594
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Discontinuity Model (DM) described in this article proposes that adults can learn part of L2 morphosyntax twice, in two different ways. The same item can be learned as the product of generation by… read more here.
Keywords: language acquisition; model; language; discontinuity model ... See more keywords
Dutch without the Dutch: discourse, policy, and program impacts on the social integration and language acquisition of young refugees (ages 12–23)
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DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2020.1814721
Abstract: ABSTRACT This innovative mixed methods network study with young refugees in the Netherlands disproves integration policy assumptions that language acquisition is key to social integration and that social integration is about gradually increasing contact with… read more here.
Keywords: language acquisition; network; social integration; integration ... See more keywords
Researching second language acquisition in the study abroad learning environment
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DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1912705
Abstract: With accelerated educational internationalization, second language acquisition (SLA) during study abroad (SA) as ‘a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field of study’ (108), while confronted w... read more here.
Keywords: language acquisition; second language; study abroad;
Transfer of variable grammars in third language acquisition
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DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2018.1550088
Abstract: ABSTRACT Research on linguistic variation suggests that usage patterns are deeply embedded in native and non-native speakers’ knowledge of grammar. This study explores the transfer of these variable sociolinguistic patterns at the initial stages of… read more here.
Keywords: transfer variable; language acquisition; third language; transfer ... See more keywords