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The Minimum Requirements of Language Control: Evidence from Sequential Predictability Effects in Language Switching
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Declerck, Mathieu; Koch, Iring; Philipp, Andrea M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015
The current study systematically examined the influence of sequential predictability of languages and concepts on language switching. To this end, 2 language switching paradigms were combined. To measure language switching with a random sequence of languages and/or concepts, we used a language switching paradigm that implements visual cues and…
Descriptors: Prediction, Code Switching (Language), Interference (Language), Models
Cross-Linguistic Influence in Third Language Perception: L2 and L3 Perception of Japanese Contrasts
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Onishi, Hiromi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the possible influence of language learners' second language (L2) on their perception of phonological contrasts in their third language (L3). Previous studies on Third Language Acquisition (TLA) suggest various factors as possible sources of cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of an L3. This dissertation…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception, Japanese, Asians
Lexical Activation in Bilinguals' Speech Production Is Dynamic: How Language Ambiguous Words Can Affect Cross-Language Activation
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Hermans, Daan; Ormel, E.; van Besselaar, Ria; van Hell, Janet – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Is the bilingual language production system a dynamic system that can operate in different language activation states? Three experiments investigated to what extent cross-language phonological co-activation effects in language production are sensitive to the composition of the stimulus list. L1 Dutch-L2 English bilinguals decided whether or not a…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Bilingual Education, Indo European Languages
Crosslanguage Lexical Activation: A Test of the Revised Hierarchical and Morphological Decomposition Models in Arabic-English Bilinguals
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Qasem, Mousa; Foote, Rebecca – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
This study tested the predictions of the revised hierarchical (RHM) and morphological decomposition (MDM) models with Arabic-English bilinguals. The RHM (Kroll & Stewart, 1994) predicts that the amount of activation of first language translation equivalents is negatively correlated with second language (L2) proficiency. The MDM (Frost, Forster, &…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Semantics, Translation, Interference (Language)
Contact Analysis of English and Persian Measure Words for Pedagogical Purposes.
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Yarmohammadi, Lotfollah – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 1980
The syntactic distribution and behavior of five English and Persian "measure" nouns and their adjectives are compared. From this, errors attributable to transference and those due to inconsistencies in English are enumerated. A unified analytic model of Persian errors in learning English suggests useful teaching strategies. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Optimal L2 Syllables: Interactions of Transfer and Developmental Effects.
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Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Bhatt, Rakesh M. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1997
Presents evidence of a study of speakers of English as a Second Language that cross-language transfer effects interact with developmental effects in the construction of second language (L2) syllable structures. Argues that the optimality theory provides a more explicit account than the minimal sonority distance parameter setting model regarding…
Descriptors: Cluster Grouping, Code Switching (Language), Consonants, English (Second Language)