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Lozano-Argüelles, Cristina; Fernández Arroyo, Laura; Rodríguez, Nicole; Durand López, Ezequiel M.; Garrido Pozú, Juan J.; Markovits, Jennifer; Varela, Jessica P.; de Rocafiguera, Núria; Casillas, Joseph V. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Previous studies attest that early bilinguals can modify their perceptual identification according to the fine-grained phonetic detail of the language they believe they are hearing. Following Gonzales et al. (2019), we replicate the double phonemic boundary effect in late learners (LBs) using conceptual-based cueing. We administered a forced…
Descriptors: Adults, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Cues
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Zalbidea, Janire; Issa, Bernard I.; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy; Sanz, Cristina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
The first goal of this study was to examine how individual differences in initial L2 proficiency help explain L2 grammar development in oral production during short-term immersion abroad. The second goal of the study was methodological, and evaluated challenges that can result from operationalizing learners' initial L2 proficiency as pretest…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Immersion Programs
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Kanwit, Matthew; Geeslin, Kimberly L. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Learners must develop the ability to vary language according to linguistic and situational factors to produce context-appropriate utterances. Likewise, interpreting the additional meaning conveyed through language variation is essential for successful communication. Nevertheless, research on the interpretation of the variable copulas in Spanish is…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Language Proficiency
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Fernández Cuenca, Sara; Jegerski, Jill – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study investigated the second language processing of grammatical mood in Spanish. Eye-movement data from a group of advanced proficiency second language users revealed nativelike processing with irregular verb stimuli but not with regular verb stimuli. A comparison group of native speakers showed the expected effect with both types of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alaa Al-Maani; Shayne Sloggett; Nino Grillo; Heather Marsden – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study expands on previous research into filler-gap dependency processing in second language (L2) English, by means of a replication of Canales's (2012) self-paced reading study. Canales, among others, found that advanced L2-English speakers exhibited the same processing behavior that Stowe (1986) found for native English processing: On…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
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Szudarski, Pawel; Mikolajczak, Sylwia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study is a replication and extension of Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) investigation into the role of attention in input processing by L1-Polish learners of L2-Spanish, with proficiency and language of assessment explored as two key methodological factors. Our aims were twofold: to investigate learners' comprehension in different conditions…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Clahsen, Harald; Felser, Claudia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Since the Shallow Structure Hypothesis (SSH) was first put forward in 2006, it has inspired a growing body of research on grammatical processing in nonnative (L2) speakers. More than 10 years later, we think it is time for the SSH to be reconsidered in the light of new empirical findings and current theoretical assumptions about human language…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Native Language
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Li, Shaofeng; Qian, Jiancheng – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study investigates the validity of syntactic priming as a measure of implicit language aptitude. Syntactic priming refers to the tendency to reproduce a linguistic structure due to a previous exposure to the structure. The validity of the construct was verified by collating evidence for divergent validity--whether it is dissociable from…
Descriptors: Syntax, Priming, Language Aptitude, Construct Validity
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Perez-Cortes, Silvia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
For more than a decade, research on heritage speakers' (HSs') mood selection has documented a high degree of variability in their interpretation and use of mood morphology in variable contexts. Most of the previous literature, however, has focused on late-acquired alternations, and often limited analyses to one form (i.e., subjunctive), making it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grammar, Heritage Education, Verbs
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Bañón, José Alemán; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
We used event-related potentials to investigate how markedness impacts person agreement in English-speaking learners of L2-Spanish. Markedness was examined by probing agreement with both first-person (marked) and third-person (unmarked) subjects. Agreement was manipulated by crossing first-person subjects with third-person verbs and vice versa.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish
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Lee, Eun-Kyoung Rosa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study examined whether early immersive L2 exposure in a foreign language learning context can yield long-term advantages in L2 morpho-syntactic sensitivity. Participants were 40 Korean university students with high English proficiency, who had either attended an English kindergarten or begun learning English in a classroom, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Syntax
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Romanova, Natalia; Gor, Kira – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
The study investigated the processing of Russian gender and number agreement by native (n = 36) and nonnative (n = 36) participants using a visual lexical decision task with priming. The design included a baseline condition that helped dissociate the underlying components of priming (facilitation and inhibition). The results showed no differences…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages)
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Avery, Nick; Marsden, Emma – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Despite extensive theoretical and empirical research, we do not have estimations of the magnitude of sensitivity to grammatical information during L2 online processing. This is largely due to reliance on null hypothesis significance testing (Plonsky, 2015). The current meta-analysis draws on data from one elicitation technique, self-paced reading,…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Hopp, Holger; Lemmerth, Natalia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
This article investigates how lexical and syntactic differences in L1 and L2 grammatical gender affect L2 predictive gender processing. In a visual-world eye-tracking experiment, 24 L1 Russian adult learners and 15 native speakers of German were tested. Both Russian and German have three gender classes. Yet, they differ in lexical congruency, that…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Form Classes (Languages), Russian
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Foote, Rebecca – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Research with native speakers indicates that, during word recognition, regularly inflected words undergo parsing that segments them into stems and affixes. In contrast, studies with learners suggest that this parsing may not take place in L2. This study's research questions are: Do L2 Spanish learners store and process regularly inflected,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Morphology (Languages), Language Processing
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