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Attrition and Reactivation of a Childhood Language: The Case of Returnee Heritage Speakers
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Flores, Cristina – Language Learning, 2020
This article discusses the dynamic nature of childhood bilingualism by analyzing oral speech from returnee heritage speakers (HSs) of Portuguese, who grew up in Germany, but moved to Portugal in childhood/adolescence. The first dataset from 14 speakers showed that the length of exposure to German predicted the rate of (in)accurate production of…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Child Language, Bilingualism, Native Language
Traces of an Early Learned Second Language in Discontinued Bilingualism
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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
Negative Transfer from Spanish and English to Portuguese Pronunciation: The Roles of Inhibition and Working Memory
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Trude, Alison M.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Language Learning, 2011
We examined negative transfer from English and Spanish to Portuguese pronunciation. Participants were native English speakers, some of whom spoke Spanish. Participants completed a computer-based Portuguese pronunciation tutorial and then pronounced trained letter-to-sound correspondences in unfamiliar Portuguese words; some shared orthographic…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Portuguese
Second Language Acquisition of Variable Structures in Spanish by Portuguese Speakers
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Geeslin, Kimberly L.; Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro – Language Learning, 2006
This study provides a model for examining the second language (L2) acquisition of structures where the first language (L1) and (L2) are similar, and where native speaker (NS) use varies. Research on the copula contrast in Spanish ("ser" and "estar" mean "to be") has shown that an assessment of learner choice cannot rely on an error analysis…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Portuguese, Native Speakers
Chronological and Stylistic Aspects of Second Language Acquisition of Consonant Clusters.
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Major, Roy C. – Language Learning, 1994
Tests a model of second-language phonological acquisition that proposes a hierarchical relationship between language-specific transfer processes and universal development processes in terms of chronology and style. This was accomplished through an investigation of the consonant cluster production of four Brazilian learners of English. Claims of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
Interference and Natural Language Processing in Second Language Acquisition.
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Tarallo, Fernando; Myhill, John – Language Learning, 1983
A study of English speakers' acquisition of relative clauses in Chinese, Japanese, Persian, German, and Portugese is reported. Various structures were tested to separate interlanguage features attributable to first language interference from those universal to second language acquisition. Application of an accessibility hierarchy theory and…
Descriptors: Chinese, Difficulty Level, Form Classes (Languages), German