Ecology of Adult Language Acquisition a Psycholinguistic Research Project

Communication Strategies Revisited: Looking beyond Interactional and Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Second language (L2) communication strategies (CSs) have traditionally been dealt with through either interactional or psychological perspectives. However, this paper is a critical attempt to question the status of the particular kinds of psycholinguistic and interactional approaches that currently dominate the field of second language acquisition (SLA). In this way, it expands the significance...

Acquisition of Semantie Complexities: Extensiue Reading as Psycholinguistic Mediation in 12 Setting

Lexical Access in Persian Speaking Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment

Introduction: Word retrieval problems are among the limitations observed in children with specific language impairment during the initial schooling years. These restrictions are predictive of reading problems and poor performance at school. Additionally, studies on lexical access in Persian speaking children are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and compare naming accuracy and ...

Language acquisition is language change.

According to the theory of Universal Grammar, the primary linguistic data guides children through an innately specified space of hypotheses. On this view, similarities between child-English and adult-German are as unsurprising as similarities between cousins who have never met. By contrast, experience-based approaches to language acquisition contend that child language matches the input, with n...

Towards an Adaptive Learners' Dictionary

This paper presents an ongoing research project about the development of an electronic learners’ dictionary for the German and the Italian language (ELDIT). Modern psycholinguistic methods for language acquisition will be applied together with technologies for hypermedia and adaptive systems in order to ensure maximum effectiveness.