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First Language Transfer and Long-Term Structural Priming in Comprehension
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Nitschke, Sanjo; Kidd, Evan; Serratrice, Ludovica – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The present study investigated L1 transfer effects in L2 sentence processing and syntactic priming through comprehension in speakers of German and Italian. L1 and L2 speakers of both languages participated in a syntactic priming experiment that aimed to shift their preferred interpretation of ambiguous relative clause constructions. The results…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Crosslinguistic Influence at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Subjects and Objects in English-Italian Bilingual and Monolingual Acquisition
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Serratrice, Ludovica; Sorace, Antonella; Paoli, Sandra – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
The findings from a number of recent studies indicate that, even in cases of successful bilingual first language acquisition, the possibility remains of a certain degree of crosslinguistic influence when the choice between syntactic options is affected by discourse pragmatics. In this study we focussed on the use of referring expressions, prime…
Descriptors: Nouns, Syntax, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition