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Language Representations in the Presence of a Lexical-Functional Split: An Experimental Approach Targeting the Quichua-Media Lengua-Spanish Interface
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Isabel Deibel – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Mixed languages like Media Lengua incorporate grammar from one source language (here, Quichua) but lexicon from another (here, Spanish). Due to their linguistic profile, they provide a unique window into bilingual language usage and language representation. Drawing on sociolinguistic, structural and psycholinguistic perspectives, the current…
Descriptors: Spanish, American Indian Languages, Code Switching (Language), Task Analysis
On the Typological Economy of Syntactic Transfer: Word Order and Relative Clause High/Low Attachment Preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese
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Rothman, Jason – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2010
One central question in the formal linguistic study of adult multilingual morphosyntax (i.e., L3/Ln acquisition) involves determining the role(s) the L1 and/or the L2 play(s) at the L3 initial state (e.g., Bardel & Falk, Second Language Research 23: 459-484, 2007; Falk & Bardel, Second Language Research: forthcoming; Flynn et al., The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
Nativelike Biases in Generation of Wh-Questions by Nonnative Speakers of Japanese
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Lieberman, Moti; Aoshima, Sachiko; Phillips, Colin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
A number of studies of second language (L2) sentence processing have investigated whether ambiguity resolution biases in the native language (L1) transfer to superficially similar cognate structures in the L2. When transfer effects are found in such cases, it is difficult to determine whether they reflect surface parallels between the languages or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Word Order, Native Speakers
Processing Strategies in L2 Learners of French: The Role of Transfer.
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Heilenman, L. Kathy; McDonald, Janet L. – Language Learning, 1993
The comprehension processing strategies of 15 monolingual English and 8 bilingual French native speakers were compared with those of 112 second-language learners of French, using stimuli containing word order and clitic pronoun cues in French. Results indicated differential dependence on cue use by native speakers. (Contains 97 references.)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Context Clues, French
Developmental Sequences in L1 (Normal and Impaired) and L2 Acquisition of Swedish Syntax.
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Hakansson, Gisela; Nettelbladt, Ulrika – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Examined syntactic development in acquisition of Swedish as a first language in normal (L1) and specifically language-impaired (SLI) children, and acquisition of Swedish as a second language (L2). Similarity between SLI learners and L2 learners is evidence against the hypothesis that there is a fundamental L1-L2 difference. Some data are appended.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition