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Trenkic, Danijela; Pongpairoj, Nattama – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
The effect of referent salience on second language (L2) article production in real time was explored. Thai (-articles) and French (+articles) learners of English described dynamic events involving two referents, one visually cued to be more salient at the point of utterance formulation. Definiteness marking was made communicatively redundant with…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Thai
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Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Pires, Acrisio; Rothman, Jason – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
This paper investigates the acquisition of syntax in L2 grammars. We tested adult L2 speakers of Spanish (English L1) on the feature specification of T(ense), which is different in English and Spanish in so-called subject-to-subject raising structures. We present experimental results with the verb parecer "to seem/to appear" in different…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This paper examines the acquisition of interpretable features in English second language (L2) learners of Spanish by investigating the personal preposition a in Spanish. The distribution of a in direct object NPs relates to the animacy/specificity of the NP, the animacy/agentivity of the subject, and the semantics of the predicate (Torrego, 1998;…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Form Classes (Languages)
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Roeper, Thomas – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
We begin with the hypothesis that all people are "bilingual" because every language contains ingredients from several grammars, just as English exhibits both an Anglo-Saxon and a Latinate vocabulary system. We argue that the dominant grammar is defined by productivity and recursion in particular. Although current evidence is sparse, in principle,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Exhibits, Bilingualism
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Morett, Laura M.; Macwhinney, Brian – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Competition Model studies of second language learners have demonstrated that there is a gradual replacement of first language cues for thematic role assignment by second language cues. The current study introduced two methodological innovations in the investigation of this process. The first was the use of mouse-tracking methodology (Spivey, 2007)…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training
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Kupisch, Tanja – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigates definite articles in specific and generic subject nominals in Italian spoken by adult simultaneous bilinguals (2L1ers) and second language learners (L2ers). The study focuses on plural and mass DPs, in which German and Italian differ. The aims are to (i) compare acquisition outcomes between the weaker and the stronger…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Second Language Learning, German, English (Second Language)
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Flores, Cristina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigates the differential effects of language attrition in two diverse linguistic domains: verb placement and object expression. Linguistic phenomena at the syntax--discourse interface, such as object expression, have been shown to be more vulnerable to attrition than narrow syntax properties, such as verb placement. This study aims…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Verbs, Syntax, Second Language Learning
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Hoshino, Noriko; Dussias, Paola E.; Kroll, Judith F. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Subject-verb agreement is a computation that is often difficult to execute perfectly in the first language (L1) and even more difficult to produce skillfully in a second language (L2). In this study, we examine the way in which bilingual speakers complete sentence fragments in a manner that reflects access to both grammatical and conceptual…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
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Jacobson, Peggy F. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study examined object clitic pronouns (OCPs) and verb inflections in twenty-five school-age children with typical development (TD) and twenty children with bilingual language impairment (BLI). MANOVA and ANOVA were used to explore differences according to grade level and language status (TD vs. BLI). Although children with BLI produced higher…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Verbs, Morphemes, Language Impairments
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Tanner, Darren; McLaughlin, Judith; Herschensohn, Julia; Osterhout, Lee – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Here we report findings from a cross-sectional study of morphosyntactic processing in native German speakers and native English speakers enrolled in college-level German courses. Event-related brain potentials were recorded while participants read sentences that were either well-formed or violated German subject-verb agreement. Results showed that…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Second Language Learning
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Jegerski, Jill – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This self-paced reading study first tested the prediction that the garden path effect previously observed during the processing of subject-object ambiguities in native English would not obtain in a null subject language like Spanish. The investigation then further explored whether the effect would be evident among near-native readers of Spanish…
Descriptors: Prediction, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, English
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Gruter, Theres; Crago, Martha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This article explores the widely documented difficulty with object clitics in the acquisition of French. The study investigates the effects of L1 transfer and processing limitations on the production and comprehension of object clitics in child L2 learners of French with different L1 backgrounds (Chinese, Spanish). The Spanish-speaking learners…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Speech Communication, Short Term Memory, French
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Iluz-Cohen, Peri; Walters, Joel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Two studies investigated five- and six-year-old preschool children's narrative production in an attempt to show how LI may impinge on narrative production in measurable ways. Study 1 analyzed renderings of familiar stories for group (typical language development vs. language impairment), story content (Jungle Book/Goldilocks) and language…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Form Classes (Languages), Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
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Kurinski, Elena; Sera, Maria D. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Second language acquisition studies can contribute to the body of research on the influence of language on thought by examining cognitive change as a result of second language learning. We conducted a longitudinal study that examined how the acquisition of Spanish grammatical gender influences categorization in native English-speaking adults. We…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Foucart, Alice; Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study examines the effect of proficiency and similarity between the first and the second language on grammatical gender processing in L2. In three experiments, we manipulated gender agreement violations within the determiner phrase (DP), between the determiner and the noun (Experiment 1), the postposed adjective and the noun (Experiment 2)…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Nouns, Grammar, Language Processing
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