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The Role of L1 Transfer in the Interpretation of Articles with Definite Plurals in L2 English
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of the interpretation of plural noun phrases. Languages with articles differ in whether they use bare plurals (English) or definite plurals (Spanis… more →
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Theoretical approaches to second language learning
wrote 1 day ago: Language teaching comprises of three basic components: Approach, Method and Technique. Approach deal … more →
Meta Book Review: Reviews of Sampson's The Language Instinct Debate
wrote 1 week ago: When I last left you*, we had just talked about how Geoffrey Sampson’s The Language Instinct D … more →
First Language Acquisition
wrote 3 weeks ago: First language Acquisition, Chapter 2. H. douglas Brown Summary. Not until the second half of the tw … more →
IAN BAIN considers the plausibility of innateness theories of language acquisition
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wrote 2 months ago: Noam Chomsky claims that ‘language seems to be best understood as a ‘cognitive system’ ’ (1991: 17). … more →
The most important factor in second language acquisition success is motivation
wrote 3 months ago: Language is a very important means of communication. Language and its use are said to play significa … more →
The Biology of the Language Faculty: Its Perfection, Past and Future
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wrote 3 months ago: by Noam Chomsky Chomsky briefly outlines the key components of a biologically based linguistics that … more →
Part Two
wrote 3 months ago: “This gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance, and it may well some day become the … more →
Farsi Lessons
wrote 3 months ago: Chesmat means eyes. Range is color. Farsi is an s-o-v language. Midoonesti is a verb. … more →
هفت دیدگاه درخشان نوآم چامسکی درباره امپراطوری آمریکایی _ ترجمه شورش رها - 20 ژانویه 2013 (اختصاصی اشتراک)ا
wrote 4 months ago: چامسکی تنها یک تحلیلگر سیاسی با لحنی طنزآلود و گزنده نیست. چامسکی تنها یک فعال آنارشیست ضد امپریالیس … more →
Live At The Pagoda Winter Music Series V.2 featuring special guest Cody ChesnuTT
wrote 4 months ago: Thursday, January 31st, 2013 Universal Grammar & The Fairmont Hotel San Jose presents Live At … more →
Wet hair. Lather, rinse, repeat.
wrote 5 months ago: A battle royal between descriptive grammar & prescriptive grammar. How we speak and how we write … more →
A Crash Course In Linguistics
wrote 5 months ago: A great introduction to some of the key ideas of linguistics given by the always fantastic Steven Pi … more →
Our Season of Dissolution and Malcontent
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wrote 6 months ago: Sometimes change comes slow and steady like a sunset; you never really feel it’s realization a … more →
Book Review: The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
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wrote 8 months ago: The following is a book review and the first post in a series. This post discusses Steven Pinker … more →
Plato and Orwell and Miracles
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wrote 8 months ago: In the preface to his book Knowledge of Language (1986), Noam Chomsky writes, “For many years … more →
Quote of the Day 8-2-12, "Universal Grammar"
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wrote 9 months ago: “The existence of an innate universal grammar, no matter what its degree of complexity and no … more →
Well in that case...
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wrote 10 months ago: My lack of productivity over the last few months seems to have lost me my readership, but instead of … more →
Introduction to Language Aquisition
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wrote 10 months ago: You may be investigating this already, in which case, this is a good introduction to why linguist … more →
The Grammar of Happiness
wrote 11 months ago: Part I: Kind of Crunchy Linguistics Yesterday at 4 the Smithsonian channel (re-)broadcasted The Gram … more →
