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Sentence Interpretation in Bilingual Speakers of English and Chinese.
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Hua Liu; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Examines patterns of transfer in the sentence processing strategies displayed by Chinese-English and English-Chinese bilinguals. Results indicate that late bilinguals display strong evidence for forward transfer: late Chinese-English bilinguals transfer animacy-based strategies to English sentences; late Chinese-English bilinguals transfer…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Chinese, Comparative Analysis, English
The Development of Word Recognition in a Second Language.
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Muljani, D.; Koda, Keiko; Moates, Danny R. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
A study investigated differences in English word recognition in native speakers of Indonesian (an alphabetic language) and Chinese (a logographic languages) learning English as a Second Language. Results largely confirmed the hypothesis that an alphabetic first language would predict better word recognition in speakers of an alphabetic language,…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, English