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Klassert, Annegret; Gagarina, Natalia; Kauschke, Christina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
The present study investigates the influence of word category on naming performance in two populations: bilingual and monolingual children. The question is whether and, if so, to what extent monolingual and bilingual children differ with respect to noun and verb naming and whether a noun bias exists in the lexical abilities of bilingual children.…
Descriptors: Russian, German, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Flores, Cristina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
This study investigates the differential effects of language attrition in two diverse linguistic domains: verb placement and object expression. Linguistic phenomena at the syntax--discourse interface, such as object expression, have been shown to be more vulnerable to attrition than narrow syntax properties, such as verb placement. This study aims…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Verbs, Syntax, Second Language Learning
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Flores, Cristina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
The present study investigates the syntactic competence of bilingual Portuguese-German returnees who have lost regular contact with their L2 (German). The main criterion which distinguishes the participants is the age of input loss. This allows their division into two main groups: speakers who lost German input during early childhood (between ages…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, German, Bilingualism, Syntax
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Silva-Corvalan, Carmen; Montanari, Simona – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
This article studies the acquisition of copulas by a Spanish-English bilingual between the ages of 1;6 and 3;0, examines the possibility of interlanguage influence, and considers the distributional frequencies of copular constructions in the speech of the child and in the language input from adults. The study is of interest because the bilingual…
Descriptors: Semantics, Syntax, Linguistic Input, Bilingualism
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Zyzik, Eve; Gass, Susan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The five papers in this issue cover a range of perspectives on the acquisition and use of the Spanish copulas "ser" and "estar" in a variety of contexts, including language contact, bilingual language acquisition, and classroom second language learning. The fact that these papers cite work in this area as far back as the early part of the 20th…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning, Language Acquisition
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Montrul, Silvina; Bowles, Melissa – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
The obligatory use of the preposition a with animate, specific direct objects in Spanish ("Juan conoce a Maria" "Juan knows Maria") is a well-known instance of Differential Object Marking (DOM; Torrego, 1998; Leonetti, 2004). Recent studies have documented the loss and/or incomplete acquisition of several grammatical features in Spanish heritage…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Heritage Education, Verbs, Grammar