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The acquisition of the semantics of Japanese numeral classifiers: The methodological value of nonsense
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-26)This study examined the acquisition of numeral classifiers in 120 monolingual Japanese children. Previous research has argued that the complex semantic system underlying classifiers is late acquired. Thus, we set out to determine the age at which Japanese children are able to extend the semantic properties of classifiers to novel items/situations. Participants completed a comprehension task with ... -
Bilectal Exposure Modulates Neural Signatures to Conflicting Grammatical Properties: Norway as a Natural Laboratory
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-11-22)The current study investigated gender (control) and number (target) agreement processing in Northern and non-Northern Norwegians living in Northern Norway. Participants varied in exposure to Northern Norwegian (NN) dialect(s), where number marking differs from most other Norwegian dialects. In a comprehension task involving reading NN dialect writing, P600 effects for number agreement were significantly ... -
Consistent use of proactive control and relation with academic achievement in childhood
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-08)As children become older, they better maintain task-relevant information in preparation of upcoming cognitive demands. This is referred to as proactive control, which is a key component of cognitive control development. However, it is still uncertain whether children engage in proactive control consistently across different contexts and how proactive control relates to academic abilities. This study ... -
Cross-Linguistic Influence on L2 Before and After Extreme Reduction in Input: The Case of Japanese Returnee Children
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-18)This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language environment). The specific aim was to examine whether change in language dominance/exposure influences choice of genitive form in the bilingual children; ... -
Defining bilingualism as a continuum: Some tools and consequences for the study of bilingual mind and brain effects
(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 ... -
The effect of metacognitive executive function training on children's executive function, proactive control, and academic skills
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)The current study investigated the effects of metacognitive and executive function (EF) training on childhood EF (inhibition, working memory [WM], cognitive flexibility, and proactive/reactive control) and academic skills (reading, reasoning, and math) among children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Children (N = 134, Mage = 8.70 years) were assigned randomly to the three training groups: (a) ... -
Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-12)This study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness. Fifty-four adult Italian HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed an online Self-Paced Reading Task and an offline Grammaticality Judgment Task. Both tasks involved sentences with grammatical and ungrammatical noun-adjective ... -
Linguistic consequences of toing and froing: Factors that affect the maintenance and development in returnee bilingual children.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their native language environment. The returnees did a ... -
Linguistic consequences of toing and froing: Factors that modulate narrative development in bilingual returnee children
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-13)This longitudinal study examined the development of narrative micro- and macrostructure in Japanese-English bilingual returnee children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who move to a foreign country, spending a significant portion of their formative developmental years in the foreign majority language context before returning to their native language environment. The returnees did ... -
Losing access to the second language and its effect on executive function development in childhood: The case of'returnees'
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-31)This study examined how relative language proficiency and exposure influence the development of executive function (EF) in 7–12 year-old bilingual ‘returnee’ children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who were immersed in an environment where their second language (L2; English) was the majority societal language and returned to their native language (L1; Japanese) environment after the ... -
Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)Herein, we contextualize, problematize and offer some insights for moving beyond the problem of monolingual comparative normativity in (psycho)linguistic research on bilingualism. We argue that, in the vast majority of cases, juxtaposing (functional) monolinguals to bilinguals fails to offer what the comparison is supposedly intended to do: meet the standards of empirical control in line with ... -
Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-11)Herein, we contextualize, problematize, and offer some insights for moving beyond the problem of monolingual comparative normativity in (psycho) linguistic research on bilingualism. We argue that, in the vast majority of cases, juxtaposing (functional) monolinguals to bilinguals fails to offer what the comparison is supposedly intended to do: meet the standards of empirical control in line with the ... -
Morphological transparency and markedness matter in heritage speaker gender processing: an EEG study
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-12)The present study investigated the qualitative nature of grammatical gender knowledge and processing in heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish living in the United States. Forty-four adult Spanish HS bilinguals participated, completing a behavioral grammatical gender assignment task and a grammaticality judgment task (GJT) while their brain activity was recorded using electroencephalography (EEG). The ... -
You can’t fix what is not broken: Contextualizing the imbalance of perceptions about heritage language bilingualism.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-04-29)In this article, we discuss the perceptions of researchers who work on heritage language bilingualism (HLB), educators who teach heritage speakers (HSs), and, crucially, HSs themselves regarding the nature of bilingualism in general as well as HLB specifically. Despite the fact that all groups are invested in HLB and that researchers and educators tend to have a similar basic understanding of HLB ...
