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Ferré, Pilar; Anglada-Tort, Manuel; Guasch, Marc – Second Language Research, 2018
The present study investigates whether the emotional content of words has the same effect in the different languages of bilinguals by testing the effects of word concreteness, the type of task used, and language status. Highly proficient bilinguals of Catalan and Spanish who learned Catalan and Spanish in early childhood in a bilingual immersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bilingual Students, Language Usage
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Mai, Ziyin; Yuan, Boping – Second Language Research, 2016
This article reports an empirical study investigating L2 acquisition of the Mandarin Chinese "shì…de" cleft construction by adult English-speaking learners within the framework of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis (Lardiere, 2009). A Sentence Completion task, an interpretation task, two Acceptability Judgement tasks, and a felicity…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Intonation
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Sagarra, Nuria – Second Language Research, 2017
Adults demonstrate difficulty and pronounced variability when developing second language (L2) grammatical knowledge and reading skills. We examine explanations in terms of individual differences in working memory (WM). Despite numerous studies, the association between WM and adult second language (L2) acquisition remains unclear, and longitudinal…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Grammar, English
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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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Zufferey, Sandrine; Mak, Willem; Degand, Liesbeth; Sanders, Ted – Second Language Research, 2015
Discourse connectives are important indicators of textual coherence, and mastering them is an essential part of acquiring a language. In this article, we compare advanced learners' sensitivity to the meaning conveyed by connectives in an off-line grammaticality judgment task and an on-line reading experiment using eye-tracking. We also assess the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Comparative Analysis, French
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Bley-Vroman, Robert; Yoshinaga, Naoko – Second Language Research, 2000
Investigates the knowledge of multiple wh-questions such as "Who ate what?" by high-proficiency Japanese speakers of English. Acceptability judgments were obtained on six different types of questions. Acceptability of English examples was rated by native speakers of English, Japanese examples were judged by native speakers of Japanese,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Japanese, Language Proficiency