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Direct linkHerschensohn, Julia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
This article reexamines Bley-Vroman's original (1990) and evolved fundamental difference hypothesis that argues that differences in path and endstate of first language acquisition and adult foreign language learning result from differences in the acquisition procedure (i.e., language faculty and cognitive strategies, respectively). The evolved…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Acquisition, Adults
The Shallow Structure Hypothesis of Second Language Sentence Processing: What Is Restricted and Why?
Dowens, Margaret Gillon; Carreiras, Manuel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
Clahsen and Felser (CF) analyze the performance of monolingual children and adult second language (L2) learners in off-line and on-line tasks and compare their performance with that of adult monolinguals. They conclude that child first language (L1) processing is basically the same as adult L1 processing (the contiguity assumption), with…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Monolingualism, Native Speakers
