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Bianchi, Giulia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This study compares mastery of gender assignment and agreement in Italian by adult Italian-German bilinguals who have acquired two languages simultaneously (2L1), and by adult German highly proficient second language learners (L2ers) of Italian. Our data show that incompleteness in bilingual acquisition and in second language (L2) acquisition…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, German, Italian
Montrul, Silvina; Davidson, Justin; De La Fuente, Israel; Foote, Rebecca – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
We examined how age of acquisition in Spanish heritage speakers and L2 learners interacts with implicitness vs. explicitness of tasks in gender processing of canonical and non-canonical ending nouns. Twenty-three Spanish native speakers, 29 heritage speakers, and 33 proficiency-matched L2 learners completed three on-line spoken word recognition…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Nouns, Spanish
Thomason, Sarah G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel argues that "grammatical variation...can be described...in terms of parametric variation", and--crucially for his arguments in this paper--that "parameter settings do not change across the lifespan". To this extent he adopts the standard generative view, but he then departs from what he calls "the literature on historical…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Weerman, Fred – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
There is a long linguistic tradition in which language change is explained in terms of first language acquisition. In this tradition, children are considered to be the agents of language change, or at least the agents of changes in the underlying grammar. Since the early 1980s, this has been formulated in the (generative) terminology in terms of…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Variation, Old English, Language Acquisition
Montrul, Silvina; Bowles, Melissa – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
The obligatory use of the preposition a with animate, specific direct objects in Spanish ("Juan conoce a Maria" "Juan knows Maria") is a well-known instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM; Torrego, 1998; Leonetti, 2004). Recent studies have documented the loss and/or incomplete acquisition of several grammatical features in Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Heritage Education, Verbs, Grammar

Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Examines language transfer or interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to. Argues that transfer occurs in those domains of the grammar where the language learner is confronted with ambiguous input. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar

De Houwer, Annick; Grosjean, Francois; Hulk, Aafke; van der Linden, Elisabeth; Lanza, Elizabeth; Schlyter, Suzanne; Tracy, Rosemarie; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Eight commentaries are included on an article that examined language transfer or interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to and argued that transfer occurs in those domains of the grammar where the language learner is confronted with ambiguous input. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar

Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Responds to commentaries written about an article that the author wrote on language transfer and interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar
Harrington, Michael – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Acquisition by Processing Theory (APT) is a unified account of language processing and learning that encompasses both L1 and L2 acquisition. Bold in aim and broad in scope, the proposal offers parsimony and comprehensiveness, both highly desirable in a theory of language acquisition. However, the sweep of the proposal is accompanied by an economy…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Input