If language processing and development is viewed as a dynamic process in which all subsystems interact over time, then some basic assumptions behind more traditional approaches to language analysis are problematic: new methods of analysis and modeling are needed to supplement and partly replace existing paradigms. This argument is illustrated with two examples from recent studies.
After a brief history of the reasons for a paradigm shift and an explanation of the role of variability in development, the first example study presents a variability-based approach to reaction time measurements in which spectral analyses of variability found during repeated measures of the same experiment may indicate moments of behavioral change. Then the principles of dynamic modeling are explained, illustrated with vocabulary developmental data. The second recent study shows how the vocabulary development of three learners is may be dynamically modeled using a logistic model.
2022. Measures of variability in transitional phases in second language development. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 60:1 ► pp. 85 ff.
Blank, Cintia Avila & Raquel Llama
2019. Exploring Learning Context Effects and Grapho(-Phonic)-Phonological Priming in Trilinguals. Languages 4:3 ► pp. 61 ff.
Lowie, Wander M. & Marjolijn H. Verspoor
2019. Individual Differences and the Ergodicity Problem. Language Learning 69:S1 ► pp. 184 ff.
DE BOT, KEES & CAROL JAENSCH
2015. What is special about L3 processing?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 18:2 ► pp. 130 ff.
Rosmawati
2014. Second Language Developmental Dynamics: How Dynamic Systems Theory Accounts for Issues in Second Language Learning. The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist 31:1 ► pp. 66 ff.
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