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Roberge, Yves – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
Poplack, Zentz and Dion (PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) examine the often unquestioned assumption that the existence of preposition stranding (PS) in Canadian French is linked to the presence of a contact situation with English in the North American context. Although this issue has been the topic of previous research from a…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Speech, Form Classes (Languages), French
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Lozano, Cristobal; Mendikoetxea, Amaya – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This paper investigates how syntactic knowledge interfaces with other cognitive systems by analysing the production of postverbal subjects, V(erb)-S(ubject) order, in an L1 Spanish-L2 English corpus and a comparable English native corpus. VS order in both native and L2 English is shown to be constrained by properties operating at three interfaces:…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Phonology, Native Speakers, Computational Linguistics
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Dogruöz, A. Seza; Backus, Ad – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
Turkish as spoken in the Netherlands (NL-Turkish) sounds "different" (unconventional) to Turkish speakers in Turkey (TR-Turkish). We claim that this is due to structural contact-induced change that is, however, located within specific lexically complex units copied from Dutch. This article investigates structural change in NL-Turkish…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Translation, Monolingualism