Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023 AbstractThe present study investigates current proposals that priming is a mechanism of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilinguals by aiming to boost CLI through priming. In two cross-linguistic structural priming experiments with less-proficient adolescent (Study 1) and more highly proficient adult German-English learners (Study 2), we assess ...
Holger Hopp, Carrie N. Jackson
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Child Heritage Language Development: An Interplay Between Cross-Linguistic Influence and Language-External Factors [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The current study investigated the mechanisms of heritage language (HL) development with a focus on case morphology. First, the effects of cross-linguistic influence (i.e., the influence of the properties of the societal language (SL) on the acquisition ...
Natalia Meir, Bibi Janssen
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Working Memory and Cross-Linguistic Influence on Vocabulary Acquisition [PDF]
Brain SciencesThe purpose of this study was to analyze the cross-linguistic influence of previously learned languages and working memory capacities on the vocabulary performance of two different typological languages.
Elizabeth Flores-Salgado +1 more
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On the Relation Between Cross-Linguistic Influence, Between-Language Priming and Language Proficiency: Priming of Ungrammatical Adjective Placement in Bilingual Spanish-Dutch and French-Dutch Children. [PDF]
Open Mind (Camb), 2023 After hearing a structure in one language, bilinguals are more likely to produce the same structure in their other language. Such between-language priming is often interpreted as evidence for shared syntactic representations between a bilingual’s two ...
van Dijk C, Unsworth S.
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English Speakers' Implicit Gender Concepts Influence Their Processing of French Grammatical Gender: Evidence for Semantically Mediated Cross-Linguistic Influence. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Second language (L2) learners often show influence from their first language (L1) in all domains of language. This cross-linguistic influence could, in some cases, be mediated by semantics.
Nicoladis E +2 more
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Universality? Cross-linguistic influence?
Concentric. Studies in Linguistics, 2022 Abstract The present study investigated the use of apology response (AR) strategies by L1-Chinese L2-English learners and L1-English L2-Chinese learners from a cross-linguistic perspective. A total of 18 Taiwanese college students who were learning English as a foreign language and 18 foreigners in Taiwan who were learning Chinese as a second language ...
Chi-ting Alvan Chung +1 more
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Cross-linguistic influence during online sentence processing in bilingual children [PDF]
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2022 To assess the presence of cross-linguistic influence, this study compared the processing of Dutch sentences by English–Dutch and German–Dutch bilingual and Dutch monolingual children in a self-paced listening task.
Chantal van Dijk +2 more
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Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 Before and After Extreme Reduction in Input: The Case of Japanese Returnee Children. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language ...
Kubota M +4 more
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Transfer/Cross-linguistic influence [PDF]
ELT Journal, 2002 Historical overview The general consensus in the 1950s and 60s was that learners’ errors could be predicted by comparing and contrasting the grammars of their L1 and of the target language; where there were di¤erences, there was likely to be error. This belief was rooted in a behaviourist theory of language learning whereby learning was equated with ...
Cathy Benson
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Spanish–English Cross-Linguistic Influence on Heritage Bilinguals’ Production of Uptalk
Languages, 2023 The present study examines the production of uptalk in Spanish and in English by Spanish heritage speakers in Southern California. Following the L2 Intonation Learning Theory, we propose that cross-linguistic influence in heritage bilinguals’ uptalk may ...
Ji Young Kim
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