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Midgley, Katherine J.; Holcomb, Phillip J.; Grainger, Jonathan – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
ERPs were used to explore the different patterns of processing of cognate and noncognate words in the first (L1) and second (L2) language of a population of second language learners. L1 English students of French were presented with blocked lists of L1 and L2 words, and ERPs to cognates and noncognates were compared within each language block. For…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Pakulak, Eric; Neville, Helen J. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
An enduring question in the study of second-language acquisition concerns the relative contributions of age of acquisition (AOA) and ultimate linguistic proficiency to neural organization for second-language processing. Several ERP and neuroimaging studies of second-language learners have found that neural organization for syntactic processing is…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Neurological Organization
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Dowens, Margaret Gillon; Vergara, Marta; Barber, Horacio A.; Carreiras, Manuel – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
The goal of the present study was to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of second-language (L2) morphosyntactic processing in highly proficient late learners of an L2 with long exposure to the L2 environment. ERPs were collected from 22 English-Spanish late learners while they read sentences in which morphosyntactic features of the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Syntax, Language Processing, Spanish