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Gerwien, Johannes; Flecken, Monique – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
The acquisition of linguistic structures that require "perspective-taking" at the level of "message generation" is challenging. We investigate use of "progressive aspect" in L2 event encoding, using a sentence priming paradigm. We focus on Dutch, in which use of progressive aspect is optional. The progressive consists…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Sentences
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Sjerps, Matthias J.; McQueen, James M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Dutch listeners were exposed to the English theta sound (as in "bath"), which replaced [f] in /f/-final Dutch words or, for another group, [s] in /s/-final words. A subsequent identity-priming task showed that participants had learned to interpret theta as, respectively, /f/ or /s/. Priming effects were equally strong when the exposure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Research, Indo European Languages, Bilingualism