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Differences in use without deficiencies in competence: passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10-15 years old, n=22), as well as age-matched monolingual controls in Turkey (n=20) and Germany ...
What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate?
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Eventive and Stative Passives and Copula Selection in Canadian and American Heritage Speaker Spanish.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Spanish captures the difference between eventive and stative passives via an
obligatory choice between two copula; verbal passives take the copula ser and
adjectival passives take the copula estar. In this study, we compare and contrast
US and Canadian heritage speakers of Spanish on their knowledge of
this difference in relation to copula choice in Spanish. The backgrounds of the
target groups ...
Object Drop in L2 Spanish, (Complex) Feature Reassembly and L1 Pre-emption: Comparing English, Chinese, European and Brazilian Portuguese Learners.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
The Acquisition of Clitics in L2 Spanish: Examining Restrictions on Clitic Solidarity.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
This study examines the mental representation of clitic object pronouns in English L2 Spanish speakers of beginning, intermediate and advanced proficiencies. We present the results of a scalar grammaticality judgment task, which examines knowledge of clitic placement in both Exceptional Case Marking (ECM) verb constructions and non-ECM (finite and modal + infinitival) constructions. Our findings ...
The role of L1 phonology in L2 morphological production: L2 English past tense production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)
This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks syntactic past) and L1 prosodic structure (only Japanese has ...
The relationship between L3 transfer and structural similarity across development: Raising across an experiencer in Brazilian Portuguese.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2015)
Terminology Matters! Why Difference Is Not Incompleteness and How Early Child Bilinguals Are Heritage Speakers.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)
This paper integrates research on child simultaneous bilingual (2L1) acquisition more
directly into the heritage language (HL) acquisition literature. The 2L1 literature mostly focuses
on development in childhood, whereas heritage speakers (HSs) are often tested at an endstate in
adulthood. However, insights from child 2L1 acquisition must be considered in HL acquisition
theorizing precisely ...
Evidence from Neurolinguistic Methodologies: Can it Actually Inform Linguistic/Language Acquisition Theories and Translate to Evidence-Based Applications?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-10-13)
This special issue is a testament to the recent burgeoning interest by theoretical linguists, language acquisitionists and teaching practitioners in the neuroscience of language. It offers a highly valuable, state-of-the-art overview of the neurophysiological methods that are currently being applied to questions in the field of second language (L2) acquisition, teaching and processing. Research in ...
Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of third language acquisition
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-25)
Aims:<br>
in this introduction we situate the seven articles in this special issue in terms of the connections between their themes and their individual contributions to the field of third language acquisition (L3A): new theoretical models, innovative methodologies, an epistemological commentary and new perspectives related to multilingual processing and cognitive function.<br>
Approach:<br>
we ...