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A computational model of learning semantic roles from child-directed language
Semantic roles are a critical aspect of linguistic knowledge because they indicate the relations of the participants in an event to the main predicate. Experimental studies on children and adults show… more →
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Every Breath You Take
ianchant wrote 2 weeks ago: During my misspent youth, it was something of a running joke between my hooligan friends and I that, … more →
Year Two: Part 1
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Yolanda wrote 2 weeks ago: At some point, she said, Momma. I say that as though I don’t know exactly when it happened. As … more →
SaaRe ek nahin hota
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luckyfatima wrote 2 weeks ago: 1. Inshallah we will be off to Amreeka soon. My mom is buying a new car and she will keep her old ca … more →
Parents' Role in Language Acquisition
paicita wrote 3 weeks ago: I am always astonished when parents wonder why their little ones are not learning how to read at a n … more →
Best Way to Learn a Second Language
shantipeace wrote 3 weeks ago: Through experience I found that total immersion works. I went for French Lessons, but found it hard … more →
Easy Living
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Mike Fu wrote 1 month ago: Greetings from Suzhou! I’ll be here for the summer on a language study fellowship. It’s … more →
Bilingual as a Baby? I Wish!
20somethingmom wrote 1 month ago: Often, a long phone conversation with a family member or friend is the best part of my day, because … more →
A computational model of learning semantic roles from child-directed language
Callier Library wrote 1 month ago: Semantic roles are a critical aspect of linguistic knowledge because they indicate the relations of … more →
The dog goes...
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becomingbritish wrote 1 month ago: This is no doubt not the last post on my son’s language development. At the moment, we’r … more →
I'm a little teapot...
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becomingbritish wrote 1 month ago: …strong and stout. I bet this is the main way you think of teapots being woven into games, nur … more →
Reduplication is the first marker of language
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aarmstrong128 wrote 1 month ago: Watching my children acquire language, I have observed that reduplication is the first marker of lan … more →
Poster Presentation at JALT-CALL
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Parise Peter wrote 2 months ago: I will be giving a poster presentation at the Jalt-Call conference at Toyo Gakuen- Hongo Campus, Tok … more →
Take language acquisition personally? Please, do!
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Ludi wrote 2 months ago: What’s a language teacher responsible for? More specifically, an English teacher? Admin, review- and … more →
Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: Evidence from German and French infants
Callier Library wrote 2 months ago: There is converging evidence that infants are sensitive to prosodic cues from birth onwards and use … more →
Radicalism or Pretense?
Mike Fu wrote 2 months ago: This semester I’ve been reading short stories by Bing Xin and doing some translation exercises … more →
Investigating the cause of language regularization in adults: Memory constraints or learning effects?.
Callier Library wrote 2 months ago: When language learners are exposed to inconsistent probabilistic grammatical patterns, they sometime … more →
Greater leftward lateralization of the inferior frontal gyrus in second language learners with higher syntactic abilities
Callier Library wrote 2 months ago: There is a great individual variability for acquiring syntactic knowledge in a second language (L2). … more →
Characters in Motion
Mike Fu wrote 2 months ago: 甲 jiǎ, 申 shēn, 由 yóu nail, explanation, freedom … more →
Plowing New Ground
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appuntivita wrote 3 months ago: I am in month eight of language classes, and I feel like I have just begun to understand a little of … more →
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