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The effect of L4 on translation students’ L1/L2 writing scripts

open access: yesLanguage Value, 2021
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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On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence

open access: yesQuaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
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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Bilingual Alignments

open access: yesLanguages, 2019
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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Do Bilinguals Acquire Similar Words to Monolinguals? An Examination of Word Acquisition and the Similarity Effect in Japanese—English Bilinguals’ Vocabularies

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education, 2021
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]

open access: yesELT 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 ...
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Asymmetrical effects of cross-linguistic structural priming on cross-linguistic influence in L2 learners

open access: yesApplied 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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English Word and Pseudoword Spellings and Phonological Awareness: Detailed Comparisons From Three L1 Writing Systems

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
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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The coming and going of come and go; Multi-verb directional motion constructions in Surinamese Javanese

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2021
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

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2018
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]

open access: yesLinguistica Pragensia, 2022
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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