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Subject-to-Subject Raising and the Syntax of Tense in L2 Spanish: A Full Access Approach
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Campos-Dintrans, Gonzalo; Pires, Acrisio; Rothman, Jason – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
This paper investigates the acquisition of syntax in L2 grammars. We tested adult L2 speakers of Spanish (English L1) on the feature specification of T(ense), which is different in English and Spanish in so-called subject-to-subject raising structures. We present experimental results with the verb parecer "to seem/to appear" in different…
Descriptors: Syntax, Morphemes, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Second Language Sentence Processing in Reading for Comprehension and Translation
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Lim, Jung Hyun; Christianson, Kiel – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
A self-paced reading and translation task was used with learners of English as a second language (L2) to explore what sorts of information L2 learners use during online comprehension compared to native speakers, and how task (reading for comprehension vs. translation) and proficiency affect L2 comprehension. Thirty-six Korean native speakers of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Sentences, Bilingualism
Subject-Verb Agreement in Specific Language Impairment: A Study of Monolingual and Bilingual German-Speaking Children
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Rothweiler, Monika; Chilla, Solveig; Clahsen, Harald – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigates phenomena that have been claimed to be indicative of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) in German, focusing on subject-verb agreement marking. Longitudinal data from fourteen German-speaking children with SLI, seven monolingual and seven Turkish-German successive bilingual children, were examined. We found similar patterns…
Descriptors: Sentences, Speech Communication, Verbs, Language Impairments
Benchmark Varieties and the Individual Speaker: Indispensable Touchstones in Studies on Language Contact
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Elsig, Martin – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The authors of "Phrase-final prepositions in Quebec French: An empirical study of contact, code-switching and resistance to convergence", Poplack, Zentz & Dion (2011, this issue), henceforth cited as PZD, make a strong case for showing that, in spite of surface similarities, preposition stranding in Canadian French relative clauses…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Sociolinguistics, Form Classes (Languages), Foreign Countries
Phrase-Final Prepositions in Quebec French: An Empirical Study of Contact, Code-Switching and Resistance to Convergence
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Ormel, Ellen; Hermans, Daan; Knoors, Harry; Verhoeven, Ludo – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
In this study, we investigate whether preposition stranding, a stereotypical non-standard feature of North American French, results from convergence with English, and the role of bilingual code-switchers in its adoption and diffusion. Establishing strict criteria for the validation of contact-induced change, we make use of the comparative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Bilingualism, North American English
Processing of Contrastiveness by Heritage Russian Bilinguals
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Sekerina, Irina A.; Trueswell, John C. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Two eye-tracking experiments in the Visual World paradigm compared how monolingual Russian (Experiment 1) and heritage Russian-English bilingual (Experiment 2) listeners process contrastiveness online in Russian. Materials were color adjective-noun phrases embedded into the split-constituent construction Krasnuju polozite zvezdovku..."Red put…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Nouns, Word Recognition, Monolingualism