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Guðmundsdóttir, Margrét D.; Lesk, Valerie E. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2019
This study examined whether the proposed bilingual advantage in inhibitory control and working memory can be extended to a trilingual advantage, and assessed any age-related effects on a continuum in young adults to older adults. Trilinguals, bilinguals and monolinguals' performance on the Simon task and a numerical version of the N-back task was…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Inhibition, Short Term Memory
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van den Noort, Maurits; Struys, Esli; Kim, Kayoung; Bosch, Peggy; Mondt, Katrien; van Kralingen, Rosalinde; Lee, Mikyoung; van de Craen, Piet – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
In this paper, in contrast to previous neuroimaging literature reviews on first language (L1) and second language (L2), the focus was only on neuroimaging studies that were directly conducted on multilingual participants. In total, 14 neuroimaging studies were included in our study such as 10 functional magnetic resonance imaging, 1 positron…
Descriptors: Brain, Language Processing, Multilingualism, Diagnostic Tests
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Rah, Anne – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2010
The present study investigates transfer effects in two groups of German learners of French for ambiguous relative clause (RC) constructions. The first learner group had started to learn French before English, whereas the second group had started to learn English before French. The RC attachment ambiguity is interesting to study possible transfer…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Figurative Language, Language Processing, French
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International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
For the purposes of this article, the authors define "multilingualism" as a state of general communicative proficiency in more than two languages; that is, a person is multilingual when he or she can fulfill his or her communicative goals in at least three languages. Bilingualism and trilingualism are thus seen as specific subtypes of a…
Descriptors: Language Research, Multilingualism, German, Second Language Learning
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de Bot, Kees – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2004
In this paper an overview of research on the multilingual lexicon is presented as the basis for a model for processing multiple languages. With respect to specific issues relating to the processing of more than two languages, it is suggested that there is no need to develop a specific model for such multilingual processing, but at the same time we…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Vocabulary, Language Processing, Models
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Gibson, Martha; Hufeisen, Britta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This empirical investigation compares the ability of adult multilingual learners of English to perform a metalinguistic task involving paying close attention to meaning and/or form in target utterances/sentences varying in semantic appropriateness and grammatical correctness. In a listening task, adult multilingual learners of English heard these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Metalinguistics, Semantics, Grammar
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Konig, Wolf – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2005
In the present study we investigate sentence production in the German interlanguage of Turkish students who have learned German as a first and English as a second foreign language. The students know both languages at an (advanced) intermediate level. Nevertheless, we observed some properties of the German interlanguage that seem to indicate an…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Second Language Learning