• Defining bilingualism as a continuum: Some tools and consequences for the study of bilingual mind and brain effects 

      Rothman, Jason; Bayram, Fatih; DeLuca, Vincent; Gonzalez Alonso, Jorge; Kubota, Maki; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      Prior to the early 1960s, the idea that children in bilingual contexts were somehow disadvantaged for linguistic and cognitive development was popularly held. Without consideration of socio-economic inequalities across groups, often co-occurring with ethnic/racial minority status, it was argued that simultaneous language exposure resulted in confusion, delaying the process of language acquisition ...
    • Event Related Potentials at Initial Exposure in Third Language Acquisition: Implications from an Artificial Mini-Grammar Study 

      González Alonso, Jorge; Alemán Bañón, José; Deluca, Vincent; Miller, David; Pereira Soares, Sergio M.; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Slaats, Sophie; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-01)
      The present article examines the proposal that typology is a major factor guiding transfer selectivity in L3/L<i>n</i> acquisition. We tested first exposure in L3/L<i>n</i> using two artificial languages (ALs) lexically based in English and Spanish, focusing on gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and between nouns and adjectives. 50 L1 Spanish-L2 English speakers took part in the experiment. ...
    • Language dominance in the previously acquired languages modulates the rate of third language (L3) development over time: A longitudinal study 

      Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Rothman, Jason; Tubau, Susagna (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-31)
      This study examines the extent to which extra-linguistic factors such as language dominance, order of acquisition and language of instruction are deterministic for multilingual transfer selection and subsequent development. We test two groups of Catalan-Spanish bilinguals acquiring English as an L3 in a controlled setting. We first examine judgements and interpretations of negative quantifiers and ...
    • On the Status of Transfer in Adult Third Language Acquisition of Early Bilinguals 

      González Alonso, Jorge; Puig-Mayenco, Eloi; Fábregas, Antonio; Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; Rothman, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-04)
      The study of linguistic transfer—understood here in terms of the copying of previous linguistic representations—seeks to reveal how domain-relevant prior language knowledge impacts the acquisition and development of new mental representations more generally. Studying sequential multilingualism offers a natural laboratory to observe cognitive-economical mechanisms that avoid redundancy in language ...