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Direct linkMontrul, Silvina – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Recent studies of heritage speakers, many of whom possess incomplete knowledge of their family language, suggest that these speakers may be linguistically superior to second language (L2) learners only in phonology but not in morphosyntax. This study reexamines this claim by focusing on knowledge of clitic pronouns and word order in 24 L2 learners…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Heritage Education, Second Language Learning, Word Order
Perry, Conrad; Kan, Man-Kit; Matthews, Stephen; Wong, Richard Kwok-Shing – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
In this study we examined syntactic ambiguity resolution in two different Chinese languages, Cantonese and Mandarin, which are relatively similar grammatically but very different phonologically. We did this using four-character sentences that could be read using two, two-syllable sequences (2-2) or a structure where the first syllable could be…
Descriptors: Syntax, Mandarin Chinese, Chinese, Syllables
