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The effect of L4 on translation students’ L1/L2 writing scripts
The aim of this study was to determine whether learning how to use certain microparametric aspects – adverbial pronouns – in L4 (French) had an effect on students’ L1/L2 (Catalan) writing scripts.
José
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The distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual,
Lena Dal Pozzo
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The issue of how to distinguish bilingual syntactic representations from processing preferences or strategies is addressed by postulating the concept of permeable bilingual alignments as memory storage devices that include information from different ...
Liliana Sanchez
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Previous research has paid much attention to the overall acquisition of vocabularies among bilingual children in comparison to their monolingual counterparts.
Aya Kutsuki
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Transfer/Cross-linguistic influence [PDF]
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 ...
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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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Spelling is a fundamental literacy skill facilitating word recognition and thus higher-level reading abilities via its support for efficient text processing (Adams, 1990; Joshi et al., 2008; Perfetti and Stafura, 2014).
Katherine I. Martin +4 more
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This article examines multi-verb directional motion constructions in Surinamese Javanese, a heritage language subject to structural influence from Dutch and Sranantongo.
Sophie Villerius
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The expression of location and space in Surinamese and Indonesian Javanese
This paper examines the influence of language contact and multilingualism on the expression of location and space in the heritage variety of Javanese spoken in Suriname. Alongside Javanese, this community also speaks Sranantongo and Dutch.
Sophie Villerius
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The effect of non-conclusive melodic rises on Czech speech sounding French [PDF]
This paper is based on a study of first language attrition in Czechs living in France, which reveals that Czech expatriates in France use prominent rises in non-conclusive intonation patterns in their native language.
Tomáš Bořil +4 more
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