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Rastelli, Stefano – Second Language Research, 2018
The topic of this article is the link between research on the neurocognition of the teaching--acquisition interface and research on second language teaching. This recent scientific enterprise investigates whether and how different aspects of second language instruction may change both the anatomy and the functioning of an adult learner's brain…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Neurolinguistics
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Lee, Albert; Mok, Peggy – Second Language Research, 2018
This article explores the acquisition of Japanese vowel and consonant quantity contrasts by Cantonese learners. Our goal is to examine whether transfer from first language (L1) is possible when L1 experience is phonemic but restricted to a small set of sounds (short vs. long vowels) and when the experience is non-phonemic, derived only at morpheme…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Sino Tibetan Languages
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Jegerski, Jill – Second Language Research, 2015
This article reports a study that sought to determine whether non-native sentence comprehension can show sensitivity to two different types of Spanish case marking. Sensitivity to case violations was generally more robust with indirect objects in ditransitive constructions than with differential object marking of animate direct objects, even among…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Spanish, Language Processing
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Cuza, Alejandro; Frank, Joshua – Second Language Research, 2015
The present study examines and compares the extent to which advanced L2 learners of Spanish and Spanish heritage speakers acquire the syntactic and semantic properties that regulate the grammatical representation of double complementizer questions in Spanish, a CP-related structure not present in English. Results from an aural sentence completion…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Role
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Chan, Ricky K. W.; Leung, Janny H. C. – Second Language Research, 2014
This article reports an experiment on the implicit learning of second language stress regularities, and presents a methodological innovation on awareness measurement. After practising two-syllable Spanish words, native Cantonese speakers with English as a second language (L2) completed a judgement task. Critical items differed only in placement of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Phonology, Spanish
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Montrul, Silvina; Dias, Rejanes; Santos, Helade – Second Language Research, 2011
This article addresses the role of previously acquired languages in the acquisition of a third language (L3) in two experimental studies on object expression in Brazilian Portuguese (BP). Participants were English-speaking learners of BP as L3 with knowledge of Spanish as a second language (L2) and Spanish-speaking learners of BP with knowledge of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Speech Communication, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar