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Individual Differences in Inhibitory Control Relate to Bilingual Spoken Word Processing
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Mercier, Julie; Pivneva, Irina; Titone, Debra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We investigated whether individual differences in inhibitory control relate to bilingual spoken word recognition. While their eye movements were monitored, native English and native French English-French bilinguals listened to English words (e.g., "field") and looked at pictures corresponding to the target, a within-language competitor…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Reading Authentic Texts: What Counts as Cognate?
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Balling, Laura Winther – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Most research on cognates has focused on words presented in isolation that are easily defined as cognate between L1 and L2. In contrast, this study investigates what counts as cognate in authentic texts and how such cognates are read. Participants with L1 Danish read news articles in their highly proficient L2, English, while their eye-movements…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, News Reporting, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Learning to Parse Liaison-Initial Words: An Eye-Tracking Study
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Tremblay, Annie – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study investigates the processing of resyllabified words by native English speakers at three proficiency levels in French and by native French speakers. In particular, it examines non-native listeners' development of a parsing procedure for recognizing vowel-initial words in the context of liaison, a process that creates a misalignment of the…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Phonemes, Human Body, French
Processing of Contrastiveness by Heritage Russian Bilinguals
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Sekerina, Irina A.; Trueswell, John C. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Two eye-tracking experiments in the Visual World paradigm compared how monolingual Russian (Experiment 1) and heritage Russian-English bilingual (Experiment 2) listeners process contrastiveness online in Russian. Materials were color adjective-noun phrases embedded into the split-constituent construction Krasnuju polozite zvezdovku..."Red put…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Nouns, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
The On-Line Application of Binding Principle A in English as a Second Language
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Felser, Claudia; Sato, Mikako; Bertenshaw, Nicholas – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
We report the results from two experiments investigating proficient Japanese-speaking learners' processing of reflexive object pronouns in English as a second language (L2). Experiment 1 used a timed grammaticality judgement task to assess learners' sensitivity to binding Principle A under processing pressure, and Experiment 2 investigated the…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Competing Activation in Bilingual Language Processing: Within- and Between-Language Competition.
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Marian, Viorica; Spivey, Michael – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2003
Two eye-tracking experiments examined spoken language processing in Russian-English bilinguals. The proportion of looks to objects whose names were phonologically similar to the name of a target object in either the same language, the other language, or both languages at the same time was compared to the proportion of looks in a control condition…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English, Eye Movements