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Ravi, Sunil Kumar; Chengappa, Shyamala K. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
The present study aimed at exploring the semantic and syntactic processing differences between native and second languages in 20 early high proficient Kannada--English bilingual adults through accuracy and reaction time (RT) measurements. Subjects participated in a semantic judgement task (using 50 semantically correct and 50 semantically…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, English, Bilingualism, Adults
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Gibson, Martha; Hufeisen, Britta – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This empirical investigation compares the ability of adult multilingual learners of English to perform a metalinguistic task involving paying close attention to meaning and/or form in target utterances/sentences varying in semantic appropriateness and grammatical correctness. In a listening task, adult multilingual learners of English heard these…
Descriptors: Sentences, Metalinguistics, Semantics, Grammar