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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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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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Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential acquisition: Null subjects and null objects in Polish-German bilingualism

open access: yes, 2021
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The topic of cross-linguistic influence regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been frequently considered regarding bilinguals acquiring language pairs in which the null option is licensed ...
Aldona Sopata   +3 more
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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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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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Short-Term Sources of Cross-Linguistic Phonetic Influence: Examining the Role of Linguistic Environment

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
While previous research has shown that bilinguals are able to effectively maintain two sets of phonetic norms, these two phonetic systems experience varying degrees of cross-linguistic influence, driven by both long-term (e.g., proficiency, immersion ...
Daniel J. Olson
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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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Cross-Linguistic Influences of Learning German in Finnish and German Upper Secondary Schools

open access: yesJournal of Linguistics and Language Teaching, 2023
The aim of this study is to find out what importance upper secondary school learners of German attach to the cross-linguistic influence (CLI) regarding specific aspects of German language learning in Finland and Germany.
Esa M. Penttinen, Heiner Böttger
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Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
This article introduces American Swedish (AmSw) into the discussion of the C-domain in heritage Scandinavian. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the Swedish part of the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS), compared to a baseline of ...
Ida Larsson, Kari Kinn
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French Postverbal Subjects: A Comparison of Monolingual, Bilingual, Trilingual, and Multilingual French

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
Monolingual French children have been observed to pass through a stage which is characterized by the production of target-deviant postverbal subjects of the following type (Jansen 2015, p. 272): est tombé Philippe ‘is fallen Philippe’ (
Laia Arnaus Gil, Natascha Müller
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