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How Similar Are Adult Second Language Learners and Spanish Heritage Speakers? Spanish Clitics and Word Order
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Montrul, Silvina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Recent studies of heritage speakers, many of whom possess incomplete knowledge of their family language, suggest that these speakers may be linguistically superior to second language (L2) learners only in phonology but not in morphosyntax. This study reexamines this claim by focusing on knowledge of clitic pronouns and word order in 24 L2 learners…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Word Order
The Effect of Bilingualism on the Use of Manual Gestures
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Nicoladis, Elena – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Gestures are often used while speaking to aid in the speaker's packaging of the verbal message and/or to aid the listener in decoding the message. The ways in which bilinguals use gestures are reviewed in this article. Researchers have predicted that bilinguals' gesture use is related to bilinguals' language proficiency. However, no clear pattern…
Descriptors: Speech, Nonverbal Communication, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
The Effect of Bimodal Input on Implicit and Explicit Memory: An Investigation into the Benefits of Within-Language Subtitling.
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Bird, Stephen A.; Williams, John N. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002
Two experiments examined the effect of single-modality (sound or text) and bimodal (sound and text) presentation on word meaning, as measured by both improvements in spoken word recognition efficiency and recognition memory. Both native and nonnative speakers of English were tested. Concludes simultaneous text presentation can aid novel word…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Linguistic Input, Memory, Native Speakers
The Contribution of Oral Language Skills to the Development of Phonological Awareness.
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Cooper, David H.; Roth, Froma P.; Speece, Deborah L.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2002
To identify factors that contribute to development of phonological awareness, investigated longitudinal relationships among child background factors, structural oral language, and phonological awareness in children in kindergarten through Grade 2, and a subsample who were nonreaders in kindergarten. Suggests general oral language may contribute to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten
Tone and Intonation in Mandarin Babytalk to Presyllabic Infants: Comparison with Registers of Adult Conversation and Foreign Language Instruction.
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Papousek, Mechthild; Hwang, Shu-Fen C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Native speakers recorded utterances in three role-play contexts: speech to presyllabic infants, foreign language instruction, and adult conversation. For babytalk, speakers neglected, reduced, or modified lexical tonal information in favor of simplified and clarified intonation contours. The implications regarding tone acquisition in children and…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Females, Infants
Two Procedures for Training a Novel Second Language Phonetic Contrast.
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Flege, James Emil – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1995
Evaluated two training methods that might be used to increase Mandarin adults' accuracy in identifying final /t/ and /d/ as stops in English. Results indicate that the effects of training generalized to words that were not used in training, and subjects maintained the effects of same/different training better than those of identification training.…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Students, Auditory Stimuli, Control Groups