Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research
Alan Juffs
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 12] 1996. xi, 277 pp.
Alan Juffs
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan Juffs plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Language acquisition | Semantics | Sino-Tibetan languages | Syntax
2022 Handle it in-house? Learner corpora frequency lists and lexical sophistication International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:3, pp. 291–320 | Article
Vocabulary lists of high-frequency lexical items are an important resource in language education and a key product of corpus research. However, no single vocabulary list will be useful for every learning context, with the appropriateness of such lists affected by the corpora on which they are… read more
2022 The University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC) International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 8:1, pp. 121–138 | Article
This report introduces the University of Pittsburgh English Language Institute Corpus (PELIC; Juffs et al., 2020), a publicly available 4.2-million-word learner corpus of written texts. Collected over seven years in the University of Pittsburgh’s Intensive English Program, these texts were… read more
2022 The effect of animacy on object pronoun distinctions in L 2 Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:2, pp. 220–249 | Article
When acquiring Spanish object pronouns (OP), English-speaking second language (L2) learners must learn the variety of forms available, word order, and case distinctions. The acquisition of case distinctions in particular is an aspect that has not been thoroughly investigated. Zyzik (2006)… read more
2021 Eye-tracking as a window into assembled phonology in native and non-native reading Journal of Second Language Studies 4:1, pp. 65–95 | Article
The past 30 years of reading research has confirmed the importance of bottom-up processing. Rather than a psycholinguistic guessing game (Goodman, 1967), reading is dependent on rapid, accurate recognition of written forms. In fluent first language (L1) readers, this is seen in the automatic… read more
2019 Chapter 9. Lexical development in the writing of intensive English program students Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability, DeKeyser, Robert M. and Goretti Prieto Botana (eds.), pp. 179–200 | Chapter
This paper focuses on vocabulary development in intensive English program (IEP) students, comparing free writing data from an IEP to previous research in more controlled contexts. These free writing data derive from writing assignments collected from students with three language backgrounds: Arabic… read more
2006 Processing reduced relative versus main verb ambiguity in English as a Second Language: A replication study with working memory Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White, Slabakova, Roumyana, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost (eds.), pp. 213–232 | Article