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Doctoral Dissertation Research: An intervention study on the acquisition of articles by se — NSF Award to University of Illinois a

Some languages use a part of speech called an article. For example, the definite article “the” and indefinite article “a/an” are the first and fifth most used words in the English language, respectively. Speakers of languages that do not have articles have great difficulty acquiring them in languages that do have artic

Award titleDoctoral Dissertation Research: An intervention study on the acquisition of articles by se
Award ID2416891
AwardeeUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CityURBANA
StateIL
Amount obligated$19,032
Principal investigatorTania Ionin
ProgramDDRI Linguistics
Start date08/01/2024
AbstractSome languages use a part of speech called an article. For example, the definite article “the” and indefinite article “a/an” are the first and fifth most used words in the English language, respectively. Speakers of languages that do not have articles have great difficulty acquiring them in languages that do have articles, despite how frequently they may be exposed to articles in the second language input. As some of the most spoken first languages in the world do not have articles, this is an i
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