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A Switch Is Not a Switch: Syntactically-Driven Bilingual Language Control
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Gollan, Tamar H.; Goldrick, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
The current study investigated the possibility that language switches could be relatively automatically triggered by context. "Single-word switches," in which bilinguals switched languages on a single word in midsentence and then immediately switched back, were contrasted with more complete "whole-language switches," in which…
Descriptors: Syntax, Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Speech Communication
The Mother Tongue in the Foreign Language: An Account of Russian L2 Learners' Error Incidence on Output
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Forteza Fernandez, Rafael Filiberto; Korneeva, Larisa I. – Online Submission, 2017
Based on Selinker's hypothesis of five psycholinguistic processes shaping interlanguage (1972), the paper focuses attention on the Russian L2-learners' overreliance on the L1 as the main factor hindering their development. The research problem is, therefore, the high incidence of L1 transfer in the spoken and written English language output of…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interlanguage
More on the Language-as-Fixed-Effect Fallacy: Monte Carlo Estimates of Error Rates for F1, F2, F', and min F'
Forster, K. I.; Dickinson, R. G. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1976
The properties of four different tests of the treatment effect in experiments using linguistic materials are examined. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Patterns, Experiments, Language Research
The Language-as-Fixed-Effect Fallacy: A Critique of Language Statistics in Psychological Research
Clark, Herbert H. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Research supported by a grant from the Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Diagrams, Error Patterns, Language Research
A Discussion of the Dulay and Burt Studies. Working Papers on Bilingualism, No. 4.
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Tarone, Elaine – 1974
Participants in a seminar series in second language acquisition held at Harvard University discussed three papers by Dulay and Burt ("Goofing: An Indicator of Children's Second Language Learning Strategies,""Should We Teach Children Syntax?", "Natural Sequences in Child Second Language Acquisition"), and developed…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Error Patterns, Interference (Language)