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Alan Juffs
Researcher at University of Pittsburgh
Publications - 47
Citations - 2711
Alan Juffs is an academic researcher from University of Pittsburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Second-language acquisition & First language. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 44 publications receiving 2582 citations.
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Second language acquisition.
TL;DR: The review details the theoretical stance of the two different approaches to the nature of language: generative linguistics and general cognitive approaches and some results of key acquisition studies from the two theoretical frameworks are discussed.
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Aspects of working memory in L2 learning
Alan Juffs,Michael Harrington +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the role of working memory in explaining individual differences in L2 learning processes and outcomes, including sentence processing, reading, speaking, lexical development and general proficiency, and found that WM is not a unitary construct and its role varies depending on the age of the L2 learners, the task and the linguistic domain.
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Parsing Effects in Second Language Sentence Processing: Subject and Object Asymmetries in wh-Extraction
Alan Juffs,Michael Harrington +1 more
TL;DR: Claims in the literature that principles of Universal Grammar are not available to adult learners are not supported by results, which show that parsing, and not grammatical competence, is the source of difficulty on performance with subject extraction sentences.
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Representation, Processing and Working Memory in a Second Language
TL;DR: Evidence is presented from online processing of English by thirty Chinese-speaking, twenty-eight Japanese-speaking and forty-six Spanish-speaking participants which shows that the basic mechanisms of grammar remain intact for L2 learners in spite of inferior performance on judgements of those same sentences.
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Garden Path Sentences and Error Data in Second Language Sentence Processing.
Alan Juffs,Michael Harrington +1 more
TL;DR: The authors compare the difficulty of parsing subject wh-traces in embedded finite and non-finite clauses with the problems they have in parsing Garden Path (GP) sentences using the moving window technique and find that L2 learners of English may have a parsing, rather than a competence, deficit in judging grammatical wh-extraction.