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Record W4416969131 · doi:10.21810/cujcs.v8i1.7213

The Maintenance and Use of Ba and Bei Constructions in Bilinguals

2025· article· W4416969131 on OpenAlexaff
Jingqian Xue

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldPsychology
TopicLanguage Development and Disorders
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterlanguageFocus (optics)ConversationHeritage languageSecond-language acquisitionFocus on formVerbFirst languageLanguage proficiencyLanguage acquisition

Abstract

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This honours project examines the use of BA and BEI constructions for school-aged children. The study includes in-person interviews and conversation sessions to demonstrate how syntactic priming is effective for passive BEI constructions. It emphasizes the combination of priming and translation activities of the research design. Research results summarize that girls use more BA constructions than boys, and younger children make verb omissions and word-order errors. This study provides unique insights into bilinguals ‘syntactic productivity in BA and BEI constructions and aligns with second language acquisition (SLA) and Speech-Language Pathology (SLP). Language educators can focus on the enjoyment element in their language teaching methods for elementary students whose second language is English. Future studies can find the patterns in the syntactic performances of BA and BEI constructions among those with and without language impairments (LI). Keywords: Bilingualism, Age of Acquisition (AoA), Heritage Language (HL) Learning, BA and BEI Construction, Syntactic Priming, Interlanguage (IL), Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) learner

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.006
Threshold uncertainty score0.012

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.300
Teacher spread0.286 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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