Abstract We investigate how neural language models acquire individual words during training, extracting learning curves and ages of acquisition for over 600 on the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (Fenson et al., 2007). Drawing studies word in children, we evaluate multiple predictors words’ LSTMs, BERT, GPT-2. find that effects concreteness, length, lexical class are pointed...

Learning a new language also involves learning a broad system of norms for social relations.This study broadly showed how EFL learners’ speech act is conveyed from their nativecultures when they are communicating in English and demonstrated that there are somepossibilities of cross-cultural misunderstanding when interlocutors are engaged in the speechact of complimenting with native speakers of...

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...