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An fMRI Validation Study of the Word-Monitoring Task as a Measure of Implicit Knowledge: Exploring the Role of Explicit and Implicit Aptitudes in Behavioral and Neural Processing
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Suzuki, Yuichi; Jeong, Hyeonjeong; Cui, Haining; Okamoto, Kiyo; Kawashima, Ryuta; Sugiura, Motoaki – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
In this study, neural representation of adult second language (L2) speakers' implicit grammatical knowledge was investigated. Advanced L2 speakers of Japanese living in Japan, as well as L1 Japanese speakers, performed a word-monitoring task (proposed as an implicit knowledge test) in the MRI scanner. Behavioral measures were obtained from…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Prediction
Examining the Contribution of Markedness to the L2 Processing of Spanish Person Agreement: An Event-Related Potentials Study
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Bañón, José Alemán; Miller, David; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
We used event-related potentials to investigate how markedness impacts person agreement in English-speaking learners of L2-Spanish. Markedness was examined by probing agreement with both first-person (marked) and third-person (unmarked) subjects. Agreement was manipulated by crossing first-person subjects with third-person verbs and vice versa.…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Spanish
Age of Onset, Type of Exposure, and Ultimate Attainment of L2 Morpho-Syntactic Sensitivity
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Lee, Eun-Kyoung Rosa – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The present study examined whether early immersive L2 exposure in a foreign language learning context can yield long-term advantages in L2 morpho-syntactic sensitivity. Participants were 40 Korean university students with high English proficiency, who had either attended an English kindergarten or begun learning English in a classroom, and a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Morphemes, Syntax
We Could Have Loved and Lost. Or We Never Could Have Love at All: Syntactic Misanalysis in L2 Sentence Processing
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Conroy, Mark A.; Cupples, Linda – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study investigated sentence-processing strategies adopted by advanced nonnative speakers (NNSs) and native speakers (NSs) of English in the context of an English structure with which NNSs reportedly have an acquisition difficulty (e.g., Swan & Smith, 2001)--namely, modal perfect (MP). Participants read MP sentences such as "He could have…
Descriptors: Sentences, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
The Emergence of the Unmarked in Second Language Phonology.
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Broselow, Ellen; Chen, Su-I; Wang, Chilin – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1998
Discusses the simplification of forms ending in obstruents by native speakers of Mandarin, in particular two effects that are not obviously motivated by either the native- or the target-language grammars: a tendency to devoice final voiced obstruents and a tendency to maximize the number of bisyllabic forms in the output. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Grammar, Interlanguage
Age and Sensitivity to Gender in French.
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Magnan, Sally Sieloff – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1983
A study of the reactions of French elementary and secondary school students and adults to 15 error types in an American's speech indicates younger students are most sensitive to gender errors, older students are less sensitive, and adults are least annoyed. Possible explanations and comparisons with other languages are presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Error Patterns