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Friesen, Deanna C.; Jared, Debra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The study investigated phonological processing in bilingual reading for meaning. English-French and French-English bilinguals performed a category verification task in either their first or second language. Interlingual homophones (words that share phonology across languages but not orthography or meaning) and single language control words served…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonology, French, Bilingualism
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Prevost, Philippe – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
This paper investigates object omission in French longitudinal production from two English-speaking children (Lightbown, 1977). Similar patterns of object omission are observed: direct objects start being dropped as transitive verbs are emerging and licit and illicit null objects occur in all recordings thereafter. Moreover, the incidence of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), French, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning
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Smits, Erica; Martensen, Heike; Dijkstra, Ton; Sandra, Dominiek – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
To investigate decision level processes involved in bilingual word recognition tasks, Dutch-English participants had to name Dutch-English homographs in English. In a stimulus list containing items from both languages, interlingual homographs yielded longer naming latencies, more Dutch responses, and more other errors in both response languages if…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism, Second Languages