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Languages, 2022 We investigate the effects of the historical language contact of Modern Greek (MG) with Vlach Aromanian (VA) in bilingual speakers of three generations living in Epirus, Greece.
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli +2 more
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Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2022 Following the multicompetence framework (Cook and Li, 2016; Ortega, 2016), this paper aims at (a) analysing differences in the use of conjunctions across the L1 Spanish and the L1/L2 Spanish groups and the L1 English and the L1/L2 English groups and (b)
Rosa Alonso
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The challenges of viewpoint-taking when learning a sign language: Data from the 'frog story' in British Sign Language [PDF]
, 2020 Little is known about how hearing adults learn sign languages. Our objective in this study was to investigate how learners of British Sign Language (BSL) produce narratives, and we focused in particular on viewpoint-taking.
Gulamani, S., Marshall, C., Morgan, G.
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Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2023 AbstractThis study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that was present in Russian and Greek yet absent in Norwegian (grammatical case).
Natalia Mitrofanova +2 more
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Predicting Native Language from Gaze [PDF]
, 2017 A fundamental question in language learning concerns the role of a speaker's first language in second language acquisition. We present a novel methodology for studying this question: analysis of eye-movement patterns in second language reading of free ...
Berzak, Yevgeni +3 more
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Acquisition of Spanish Temporal Adverbials by Multilingual Estonian Learners
Darnioji daugiakalbystė, 2023 This article focuses on the temporal structures used by multilingual Estonian students when expressing the hour in Spanish. Learning linguistic structures related to time is crucial in the early stages of foreign language acquisition.
Mombiela Virginia Rapún +1 more
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Bilingual episodic memory: an introduction [PDF]
, 2003 Our current models of bilingual memory are essentially accounts of semantic memory whose goal is to explain bilingual lexical access to underlying imagistic and conceptual referents.
Aneta Pavlenko +14 more
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On the nature of crosslinguistic influence
, 2021 Abstract Root Infinitives (RI) in Spanish have an infinitival marker, while in English they are bare forms. For languages like English, the RI stage has been said to be longer and to have a higher incidence than in Spanish. Within Liceras, Bel, and Perales’ (2006) typology of an RI universal stage, Spanish is a [+Person (P), +Infinitival marker (R ...
Juana M. Liceras +1 more
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica, 2021 The paper discusses the role of directionality in translations from Czech to German language. Its main purpose is to detect differences in the translation process between native and non-native translations, with a special focus on the translation ...
Christof Heinz, Běla Michálková
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Accounting for multicompetence and restructuring in the study of speech [PDF]
, 2015 Phonetic studies meant to generalize to monolingual speakers of a target language have often examined individuals with considerable experience using another language, such as the immigrant native speaker.
Chang, Charles B.
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