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Pliatsikas, Christos; Marinis, Theodoros – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
An ongoing debate on second language (L2) processing revolves around whether or not L2 learners process syntactic information similarly to monolinguals (L1), and what factors lead to a native-like processing. According to the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (Clahsen & Felser, 2006a), L2 learners' processing does not include abstract syntactic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Kang, Sang-Gu – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
While Hulk and Muller (2000) predict that the direction of cross-linguistic syntactic influence is unidirectional when the construction involves syntax-pragmatics interface and surface overlap between two languages, they explicitly rule out language dominance as a factor involved. This study questions their latter claim and argues that the syntax…
Descriptors: Syntax, Transfer of Training, Language Dominance, Language Role
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Lim, Jung Hyun; Christianson, Kiel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
A self-paced reading and translation task was used with learners of English as a second language (L2) to explore what sorts of information L2 learners use during online comprehension compared to native speakers, and how task (reading for comprehension vs. translation) and proficiency affect L2 comprehension. Thirty-six Korean native speakers of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Sentences, Bilingualism
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Simard, Daphnee; Fortier, Veronique; Foucambert, Denis – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
"Metasyntactic Ability" (MSA) refers to the conscious reflection about syntactic aspects of language and the deliberate control of these aspects (Gombert, 1992). It appears from previous studies that heritage-language learners tend to demonstrate lower MSA than their monolingual counterparts (Lesaux & Siegel, 2003). In the present study, we…
Descriptors: Measurement, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reflection
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Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Cuza, Alejandro; Thomas, Danielle – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Can transfer occur in child bilingual syntax when surface overlap does not involve the syntax-pragmatics interface? Twenty-three Spanish/English bilingual children participated in an elicited imitation study of clitic placement in Spanish restructuring contexts, where variable word order is not associated with pragmatic or semantic factors.…
Descriptors: Priming, Syntax, Morphemes, Phonology
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Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Marinis, Theodoros – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigates the production and online processing of English tense morphemes by sequential bilingual (L2) Turkish-speaking children with more than three years of exposure to English. Thirty-nine six- to nine-year-old L2 children and twenty-eight typically developing age-matched monolingual (L1) children were administered the production…
Descriptors: Sentences, Morphemes, Grammar, Language Impairments
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Lozano, Cristobal; Mendikoetxea, Amaya – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)-S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish-L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces:…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Phonology, Native Speakers, Computational Linguistics
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McDonald, Janet L.; Roussel, Cristine C. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This paper explores whether the poor mastery of morphosyntax exhibited by second language (L2) learners can be tied to difficulties with non-syntactic processing. Specifically, we examine whether problems with English regular and irregular past tense are related to poor L2 phonological ability and lexical access, respectively. In Experiment 1, L2…
Descriptors: Phonology, Verbs, Morphemes, Grammar
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Schmitt, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This study provides an account for a long-term selective loss of L1 (Russian) morpho-syntactic and content components in early immigrants to the U.S. The analysis of naturally occurring data is carried out from the perspective of two theoretical approaches--three models developed within language contact (Myers-Scotton 2002, 2005) and the…
Descriptors: Russian, Language Acquisition, Language Skill Attrition, Linguistic Borrowing
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Stolberg, Doris; Munch, Alexandra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
Is it possible to undo or reverse language attrition? In other words, has there been, in the case of attrition, a permanent change with respect to the speaker's L1 knowledge, or do we only see temporary effects on the control of that knowledge? It is proposed here that the concept of attrition should include the temporary loss of language skills…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency, Language Maintenance
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Keijzer, Merel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
In an attempt to explain first language attrition in emigrant populations, this paper investigates the explanatory power of a framework that has--until now--received little attention: the regression hypothesis (Jakobson, 1941). This hypothesis predicts that the order of attrition is the reverse of the order of acquisition. The regression…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Syntax, Systems Approach, Foreign Countries
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Perez-Leroux, Ana T.; Pirvulescu, Mihaela; Roberge, Yves – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Where do the two languages of the bilingual child interact? The literature has debated whether bilingual children have delays in the acquisition of direct objects. The variety of methods and languages involved have prevented clear conclusions. In a transitivity-based approach, null objects are a default structural possibility, present in all…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, French, Bilingualism, Child Language
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Salamoura, Angeliki; Williams, John N. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Cross-language (L1-to-L2) syntactic priming is the repetition of utterance structure from one language to another independently of meaning and has motivated models of language-shared representations of L1-L2 equivalent structures (Salamoura and Williams, submitted; Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker and Pickering, submitted). These models assume that the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Indo European Languages, Nouns
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Williams, John N. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
The degree to which native and non-native readers interpret English sentences incrementally was investigated by examining plausibility effects on reanalysis processes. Experiment 1 required participants to read sentences word by word and to make on-line plausibility judgements. The results showed that natives and non-natives immediately computed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Memory, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Argyri, Efrosyni; Sorace, Antonella – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
The point of departure of this study is the well-known hypothesis according to which structures that involve the syntax-pragmatics interface and instantiate a surface overlap between two languages are more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than purely syntactic domains (e.g. Muller and Hulk, 2001). In exploring the validity of this…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Dominance, Syntax, Monolingualism
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