Daniil M. OzernyiNorthwestern University | NU · Department of Linguistics
Daniil M. Ozernyi
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Introduction
Generative approaches to multilingualism and language acquisition.
Additional affiliations
September 2020 - present
ENGin program
Position
- Consultant
Description
- Establishing curriculum creation, assessment procedures, overseeing research work on assessment techniques.
September 2020 - May 2021
Kamianske High School
Position
- Part-time faculty (ESOL)
Description
- Teaching junior/senior electives in British literature and American literature.
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Publications (17)
This paper follows a twofold focus. On the one hand, we consider the role that language tests and scores play in the experimental design of second language acquisition studies (interpretation, statistical analysis). On the other hand, we consider the insights which the rapidly advancing field of second, and also third and fourth language acquisitio...
Language in Development: A Crosslinguistic Perspective (LD) is a volume honouring Barbara Lust, whose work spans the subfields of first and second language acquisition, research methodology, work with the hearing impaired, aphasia etc. Scholarly work like Lust’s, which is truly cross-linguistic sensu incorporation of diverse intra-linguistic but cr...
Metalinguistic competence is an elusive and pervasive in CEFR, and we argue that it ought not be. Similarly, we are shocked to see echoes of Lado's CA framework in CEFR CV's "contrasting grammatical structures". This papers offers an account of what interaction between language testing and GenSLA could hopefully look like.
Transfer is a notion that is pervasive in the modern field of second and third language acquisition. However, the definition of transfer is not easily found. Most of this paper is devoted to a historical overview of the notion of transfer and the changes the definition underwent over the years. At the end of this paper, I sketch a proposal which in...
I argue against the framework of "initiality", claiming that until a computationally viable version of "the decision" made at "initial stages" as to transfer of L1 or L2 to serve as the basis for L3, the TPM is not a model that can be interpreted computationally, but perhaps within other domains. I suggest that even if one were to suggest a formali...
I advocate for what I call the strong meronomy thesis (sMT): "Theorizing about the process of Ln acquisition requires full commitment to a particular view of language as a phenomenon." I consider this within epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (doxastic basicality and doxastic coherentism specifically) to point out that contradictions and par...
Our data show that vocabulary profiling does not reflect the composition of a student's lexical resource. Hence, it fails to reflect its level.
The main take of the presentation is this: "Time until successful acquisition is a function of the rate of input". Three data points attest to that: inefficiency of Duolingo, moderate efficiency of language teaching, and efficiency of naturalistic acquisition. The relevance is evidenced by millions of Duolingo users who are blissfully unaware that...
This is an extended version of the LSA paper "Some remarks on the history of transfer in language studies". It covers the history of the notion of "transfer" in psychology (up to 1948), language learning (1948-1960s), and language acquisition studies (from 1960s on).
Many contemporary papers debate what linguistics transfer is, what it entails, and how it comes around. In an attempt to shed some light at these questions, we set out to investigate the journey of linguistic transfer from the time it appeared in psychology (1890s), through its ingress to modern generative linguistics (late 1940s), and up to the pr...
Approaches to designing rating rubrics have differed significantly over the years, separating intuitively-driven and empirically-driven rating scales (Council of Europe 2001; though notably not 2020). The latter can be subdivided into empirical quantitative and empirical qualitative (Galaczi et al. 2011). On the other hand, there emerged various ap...
English Vocabulary Profile as a part of English Profile Project by Cambridge Assessment English (Harrison and Barker, 2015; Capel, 2012; Kurtes and Saville 2008) is a result of work, following T-series, to draw corpus-based lines between lexicons of once CEFR levels against the other ones. Beyond its informativity per se, EVP has been shown to corr...
Description English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) as a part of English Profile Project by Cambridge Assessment English ([1]; [2]; [3]) is a result of work, following the T-series, to draw corpus-based lines between lexicons of one CEFR level (for ESL) against the other ones. This study's main objective is to attempt at using EVP to assess content validi...
One of the significant recent developments in the field of third language acquisition was Rothman et al.'s Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer (TLA below). A comprehensive review of the field, this volume aimed at answering the two questions the authors posed, namely "Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second?" and...
The acquisition of the fourth language (L4A) is an underinvestigated field, and this study of acquisition of grammatical gender and determiners in sequential quadrilinguals (RUS-UKR-ENG-FRA) of CEFR A0 to A2 levels of French (n=22) aims at testing the hypothesis that all three languages are available as a source of transfer to (L4). The results wer...
Multilingualism in education has long been a topic of fruitful inquiry (cf. Cenoz, 2009; Jessner, 2017; Calafato, 2019; Calafato & Tang, 2019). Equally much, there are heated ongoing debates over the mechanisms of trilingual (cf. Flynn et al., 2004) and quadrilingual language acquisition (cf. Ozernyi, 2021).
Multilingualism and multilingual identi...
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Projects (3)
- test the current models of L3A with respect to fourth language acquisition;
- scrutinize the boundaries of the notion of "linguistic proximity", "psycholinguistic typology", etc. using Ukrainian quadrilinguals;
- analyze the notion of "property" in transfer studies and ascertain its boundaries;
- investigate mechanisms for L3A and L4A of parameter-setting for interaction of disjunction and negation;
- explore mechanisms for L3A and L4A acquisition of grammatical gender in Ukrainian quadrilinguals.
