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Stammers, Jonathan R.; Deuchar, Margaret – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
According to the nonce borrowing hypothesis (NBH), "[n]once borrowings pattern exactly like their native counterparts in the (unmixed) recipient language" (Poplack & Meechan, 1998a, p. 137). Nonce borrowings (Sankoff, Poplack & Vanniarajan, 1990, p. 74) are "lone other-language items" which differ from established borrowings in terms of frequency…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Verbs, Linguistic Theory, Classification
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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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Chen, Liang; Yan, Ruixia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study compares the development and use of evaluative expressions in the English narratives elicited from 80 Chinese-English bilinguals and 80 American monolingual peers at four ages--five, eight, ten, and young adults--using the wordless picture book "Frog, where are you?" (Mayer, 1969). Results revealed both similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Cultural Differences, Monolingualism, Bilingualism