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Direct linkZyzik, Eve – Language Learning, 2020
This article examines the performance of heritage speakers on a bimodal acceptability judgment task that targeted morphologically complex words. A major goal of the study was to compare participants' acceptance of conventional and creative words. Data were collected from 57 adult heritage speakers of Spanish who were subsequently divided into two…
Descriptors: Creativity, Bilingualism, Spanish, Comparative Analysis
Flores, Cristina; Gürel, Ayse; Putnam, Michael T. – Language Learning, 2020
Heritage languages (HLs) are acquired in contexts of unbalanced input, or situations in which children receive primary exposure to the family/HL and experience an abrupt shift after the child begins formal schooling. As a consequence, HL speakers normally become more dominant in the environmental language, while the development of the HL is…
Descriptors: Native Language, Heritage Education, Linguistic Input, Language Acquisition
Hirosh, Zoya; Degani, Tamar – Language Learning, 2021
When learning novel vocabulary in a third language (L3) through translations in the first language (L1), bilinguals may have more available cognitive resources and more accumulated experience in language regulation compared to when learning through translations in the second language (L2). In a study designed to test language of instruction (LOI)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Native Language, German, Vocabulary Development
Sadat, Jasmin; Pureza, Rita; Alario, F.-Xavier – Language Learning, 2016
Can an early learned second language influence speech production after living many years in an exclusively monolingual environment? To address this issue, we investigated the consequences of discontinued early bilingualism in heritage speakers who moved abroad and switched language dominance from the second to the primary learned language. We used…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Language Fluency
Peer reviewedTamamaki, Kinko – Language Learning, 1993
The alleged persistence of first-language dominance for arithmetic operations in bilinguals was investigated. Thirty-two Japanese-English bilinguals aged, 19-58, years solved arithmetic problems presented auditorily. Reaction time varied for short-term and long-term U.S. residents. (16 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English
Peer reviewedPearson, Barbara Zurer; And Others – Language Learning, 1993
Administered the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory to 25 bilingual (English/Spanish) and 35 monolingual children who were furnishing data for longitudinal study. Assessment of the degree of overlap between bilingual children's lexical development in their two languages showed that they developed early vocabulary at the same rate as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition
