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Direct linkPalma, Pauline; Marin, Marie-France; Onishi, Kristine H.; Titone, Debra – Language Learning, 2022
Although several studies have focused on novel word learning and lexicalization in (presumably) monolingual speakers, less is known about how bilinguals add novel words to their mental lexicon. In this study we trained 33 English-French bilinguals on novel word-forms that were neighbors to English words with no existing neighbors. The number of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, French
Lecouvet, Mathieu; Degand, Liesbeth; Suner, Ferran – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2021
The Bottleneck Hypothesis argues that properties of inflectional morphology explain why second-language learners may face persistent difficulties in articulating meaning in target-language forms. In particular, the acquisition task proves even harder when first and second languages differ in the way they organize the mapping of functional features…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Syntax
Loiseau, Nathalie; Delgado Luchner, Carmen – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2021
To date, research into conference interpreting has not produced a definition of the concrete subskills associated with an A, B and C language in interpreters' combinations of working languages. Existing frameworks for performance assessment in foreign languages are not designed to cover the very advanced range of language mastery associated with…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rast, Rebekah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
This paper examines cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition relative to language typology, psychotypology and proficiency level. In particular, it observes how learners make use of their background languages when faced with a language they know little to nothing about. The participants, native French speakers with English as a…
Descriptors: Sentences, Intervals, Second Language Learning, Language Classification
Peer reviewedKent, Stuart; Pitt, Jeremy – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses the relative merits of feature versus model based semantics for the interpretation of verb phrases in English, French, and German. The article concludes that the simplicity afforded by features is offset by the depth of analysis achieved with event models that are additionally able to support a sophisticated approach to machine…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Contrastive Linguistics, English, French
Download full textFisiak, Jacek, Ed. – Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics, 1990
Fourteen articles are presented in this volume on contrastive linguistics. The articles and authors are as follows: "A Brief Falsificationist Look at Contrastive Sociolinguistics" (K. Janicki); "The Locus of French Gender Control" (W. A. Bennett); "On the English Perfect Tense and Current Relevance Implicatures" (J.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Danish, English
