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Shea, Christine; Renaud, Jeffrey – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
While considerable dialectal variation exists, almost all varieties of Spanish exhibit some sort of alternation in terms of the palatal obstruent segments. Typically, the palatal affricate [??] tends to occur in word onset following a pause and in specific linear phonotactic environments. The palatal fricative [?] tends to occur in syllable onset…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Spanish, Auditory Perception
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Winford, Donald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Much previous research has pointed to the need for a unified framework for language contact phenomena -- one that would include social factors and motivations, structural factors and linguistic constraints, and psycholinguistic factors involved in processes of language processing and production. While Contact Linguistics has devoted a great deal…
Descriptors: Models, Guidelines, Social Influences, Psycholinguistics
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Klassert, Annegret; Gagarina, Natalia; Kauschke, Christina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
The present study investigates the influence of word category on naming performance in two populations: bilingual and monolingual children. The question is whether and, if so, to what extent monolingual and bilingual children differ with respect to noun and verb naming and whether a noun bias exists in the lexical abilities of bilingual children.…
Descriptors: Russian, German, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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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
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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
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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